Alliance, Ohio Alliance, Ohio Location of Alliance, Ohio Location of Alliance, Ohio Location of Alliance in Stark County Location of Alliance in Stark County Alliance is a town/city in the U.S.

Most of the town/city is positioned in northeast Stark County while a small portion is in neighboring Mahoning County.

The town/city was a manufacturing and barns core for much of the 20th century and is also associated with the state flower of Ohio, the scarlet carnation, and is known as "The Carnation City".

Most of the town/city is part of the Canton Massillon, OH Metropolitan Statistical Area, while the small portion of the town/city in Mahoning County is inside the Youngstown Warren Boardman, OH-PA Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Alliance was incorporated as a town/city in 1889. One holds that it was chosen because of the "alliance" of three small settlements into a larger entity. The other theory says the name reflects the fact that two primary barns lines (the Cleveland and Wellsville Railroad and the Ohio and Pennsylvania Railroad) intersected in Alliance, once known as "The Crossing". Alliance is a town where Main Street was originally laid out to bring traffic to the train station, the heart of the city's transit hub.

Alliance is a town rich with social, industrialized and barns history, with the restored Glamorgan Castle, previous home of the owner of Morgan Engineering, the Haines House, a restored underground barns home, and the Mabel Hartzell historic home.

Lamborn, the man who cultivated the scarlet carnation, Ohio's state flower, can still be seen on the facade of a building in the old downtown district.

The historic downtown region is experiencing a gradual renaissance, with the opening of a Saturday Farmers' Market on Main Street near the historic Caboose, and the renovation of a storefront on Main Street as an art loggia and live performance space, joining a scattering of antique shops and other businesses.

The Cat Fanciers' Association relocated to the former Midland-Buckeye bank, at 260 East Main Street, in June 2011, opening the CFA Foundation's Feline Historical Museum, the first of its kind of the United States.

Alliance was also home to the World War History & Art Museum, positioned in College Plaza at 1300 East State Street.

According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 8.96 square miles (23.21 km2), of which 8.92 square miles (23.10 km2) is territory and 0.04 square miles (0.10 km2) is water. There are no lakes inside town/city limits, although the Mahoning River flows through the northeast part of the city.

The ethnic makeup of the town/city was 84.6% White, 10.5% African American, 0.2% Native American, 0.8% Asian, 0.5% from other competitions, and 3.4% from two or more competitions.

There were 8,631 homeholds of which 29.8% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 37.6% were married couples living together, 17.1% had a female homeholder with no husband present, 5.9% had a male homeholder with no wife present, and 39.4% were non-families.

The ethnic makeup of the town/city was 85.51% White, 11.19% African American, 0.17% Native American, 0.77% Asian, 0.02% Pacific Islander, 0.41% from other competitions, and 1.93% from two or more competitions.

There were 8,908 homeholds out of which 28.5% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 44.2% were married couples living together, 14.9% had a female homeholder with no husband present, and 36.4% were non-families.

In the city, the populace was spread out with 23.5% under the age of 18, 15.5% from 18 to 24, 24.8% from 25 to 44, 20.1% from 45 to 64, and 16.2% who were 65 years of age or older.

Alliance is generally referred to as the Carnation City, having been given that designation by the Ohio General Assembly in 1959. Alliance gave Ohio its official state flower, the scarlet carnation.

Alliance's association with the carnation began in 1866 when an Alliance doctor, Levi L.

Mc - Kinley had expressed his admiration for Lamborn's carnations, so before each of their political debates Lamborn gave Mc - Kinley a carnation to wear on his lapel.

Mc - Kinley won the election and associated the carnation with his success, and wore carnations amid his prosperous campaigns for Governor of Ohio and then President of the United States. In 1884 Lamborn suggested that Ohio should make the carnation a state emblem.

In 1904, three years after President Mc - Kinley's assassination, the Ohio General Assembly designated the scarlet carnation as the official state flower as a "token of love and reverence to the memory of William Mc - Kinley".

Every year since 1960 Alliance has held a Carnation Festival amid August.

Grew carnations and urged the state of Ohio to make the scarlet carnation the state flower a b Incorporation of Alliance, Rodman Public Library website (accessed 3 February 2008) a b City of Alliance website (accessed 3 February 2008) Alliance, Ohio FAQ "A Short History of Alliance, Ohio".

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