Athens

Athens, the name of more than twenty places in the United States. (1) A cotton manufacturing town in Georgia, 92 miles WNW. of Augusta, the seat of the University of Georgia (1801). Pop. (1870) 4251; (1890) 8639.—(2) A town in the south of Ohio, on the Hocking River, the seat of the Ohio University (1804), and of the state lunatic asylum. Pop. 3000.