New Concord, Ohio

New Concord is a village located in Muskingum County, Ohio. As of the 2000 census, the village had a total population of 2,651.

Claims to fame

John Glenn, a former United States Senator and the first American to orbit the Earth, was raised in New Concord and attended Muskingum College, a Presbyterian liberal arts college also located in the village. Incidentally, on May 1, 1860, a horse was struck by a meteorite near New Concord. (To stretch this theme a bit further, Muskingum graduate Agnes Moorehead played the role of an anonymous woman whose house is attacked by a miniature flying saucer in the 1961 Twilight Zone episode "The Invaders".)

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John Glenn - United States Senator - Muskingum College - Presbyterian - Liberal arts college - Agnes Moorehead - Twilight Zone

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New Concord's more down-to-Earth claims to fame include the local John Glenn High School's annual canned food drive, which set national records for five years up to and including 2003.

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New Concord is also home to one of the rather unusual S-bridges found along sections of the old National Road.

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S-bridges - National Road

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