Lima, Ohio Lima, Ohio Flag of Lima, Ohio Location of Lima in Allen County Location of Lima in Allen County Lima (/ la m / ly-m ) is a town/city in and the governmental center of county of Allen County, Ohio, United States. The municipality is positioned in northwestern Ohio along Interstate 75 approximately 72 miles (116 km) north of Dayton and 78 miles (126 km) south-southwest of Toledo.
It is the principal town/city of and is encompassed in the Lima, Ohio Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is encompassed in the Lima-Van Wert Wapakoneta, Ohio, Combined Statistical Area.
The Lima Army Tank Plant, assembled in 1941, is the sole producer of the M1 Abrams.
2 Lima's petroleum history 6.3 Lima Symphony Orchestra The Ohio council mandated that a governmental center of county be established and "Lima" was the result.
The name "Lima" was assumedly chosen in a nod to the Peruvian capital, which amid the 1800s was a primary source of quinine, an anti-malaria drug for which there had been a demand in the region, an region known as the Great Black Swamp. Since 1831, Lima has been the center of government for Allen County, the first of its three courthouses erected in the city's first year.
Lima was officially organized as a town/city in 1842.
Also in 1854, a cholera outbreak in Delphos (a town in Allen County northwest of Lima) spread throughout west central Ohio.
Lima's part as a county-wide center for trade began early.
The Lima Agricultural Works began operations in 1869.
In 1882, under the name Lima Machine Works, the trade assembled the first Shay-geared locomotive.
The petroleum well never realized enormous profits, but it triggered Lima's petroleum industry, bringing John D.
Lima's petroleum field was, for about a decade, the biggest in the US.
He then became acting manager at American Steel Foundries in Pittsburgh. In 1921, Lima voters allowed a change in the structure of Lima town/city government.
Economically, the 1920s were a time of industrialized expansion in Lima.
In 1925, Lima Locomotive Works, Inc.
Built the "Lima A-1", a 2-8-4 model that became the prototype for the undivided steam locomotive.
In 1930, eight barns companies served Lima.
Even with the hardships of the decade, Lima inhabitants supported the assembly of a hospital to serve the area.
Lima Memorial Hospital, titled in honor of World War I veterans, opened on Memorial Day, 1933.
The Lima region was not safe from the increased crime rate of the 1930s.
In 1930, a Lima directory listed 93 industrialized employers with some 8,000 employees.
In 1935, Westinghouse positioned a Small Motor Division in Lima to build fractional horsepower electric motors.
Lima benefited from increased manufacturing amid World War II and a burgeoning population, but suffered a momentous economic diminish at the end of the decade when trade retooled for peacetime production.
In May 1941, based in the steel foundry, assembly began on Lima Army Tank Plant to manufacture centrifugally cast gun tubes.
At its peak amid the war, the Lima Tank Depot (now the Joint Systems Manufacturing Center, directed by General Dynamics), working over 5,000 citizens .
With voter support, school leadership assembled six new elementary schools and the new centralized Lima Senior High School amid the 1950s.
Lima's industrialized manufacturing interval in the decade.
During the Korean War, the Lima Tank Depot resumed manufacturing, at a level period from World War II standards.
With the passage of the town/city income tax in 1966, Lima constructed a new facility for the Lima Police Department.
Also amid the 1960s, The Ohio State University established a county-wide ground in Lima.
Civil rights issues had rocked Lima in the 1950s, perhaps most prominently in the accomplishments to desegregate the city's only enhance swimming pool in Schoonover Park.
In January 1969, a crude petroleum line in south Lima ruptured, causing 77,000 US gallons (290,000 L) of petroleum to escape into the city's sewage system.
During the 1970s and 1980s, a number of industries left Lima, part of the "Rust Belt" diminish affecting all of Ohio.
In April 1971, the last "Cincinnatian," of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad stopped in Lima.
Lima had also been served by the Pennsylvania Railroad's "Broadway Limited," a high speed New York to Chicago service, the "Capital Limited" Chicago to Washington D.C.
In 1973, Lima's District Tuberculosis Center, which served five counties, closed its doors.
Lima's populace dropped from 52,000 in the 1970s to 45,000 in 1999.
Lima's petroleum history Ohio historical marker outlining Lima's petroleum history with Faurot.
With the discernment of petroleum in Lima in 1885, Ohio began what came to be called the "Oil Boom of Northwest Ohio." Discovery actually began in Findlay, Ohio, a town/city forty miles north of Lima.
Faurot of Lima was one of hundreds of businessmen who visited Findlay to see the seemingly unlimited supply of natural gas burning day and evening.
Faurot owned the Lima Paper Mill.
The business was called the Trenton Rock Oil Company, and by 1886, had 250 wells from Lima to St.
When the news broke that northwest Ohio had oil, Standard Oil of Cleveland decided to build a refinery in Lima.
Lima's new Solar Refinery was charged with solving the sulfur problem.
This decision had little effect on the large producers elsewhere, but the lesser Lima producers, whose petroleum wells could not keep up, found themselves severely hampered.
Fourteen autonomous Lima producers formed a combine the Ohio Oil Company.
Lima's Solar Refinery General Manager John Van Dyke and Herman Frasch, Standard's chemist, solved the distillation lured for sour crude by devising a health for removing the sulfur.
Between 1887 and 1905, the Lima Oil Field was a world-class producer, yielding 300 million barrels (48,000,000 m3).
Lima was also a pipeline center.
Lima petroleum lit the buildings of the 1893 World's Fair.
Still, the Lima Refinery has survived, closing to operate for more than 125 years under a succession of owners Solar Refining Company (1886), a subsidiary of Standard Oil until the breakup in 1911, SOHIO (1931), British Petroleum (1987), Clark USA (1998), Premcor (2000), Valero Energy Corporation (2005), and most recently Husky Energy (2007). For most of its history, smokestack industries and a blue-collar work ethic defined Lima.
Nothing played a bigger part in shaping the city's self-image than its connection to barns s and barns ing as a Midwestern rail core and even more as home to the Lima Locomotive Works, whose products for more than 70 years carried the city's name globally.
Named the Lima, the engine was used on assembly of the county's first barns , the Ohio and Indiana.
East-west passenger service to Lima began in 1856, when the Ohio & Indiana merged with the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne & Chicago.
Machine shops for the Dayton & Michigan were assembled in Lima by 1860, and for the Lake Erie and Western Railroad by 1880.
By the early years of the 20th century, the barns shops working 1,000 citizens in Lima.
Lima service on the electric interurban Ohio Western Railway began in 1902 and Lima became the core of an interurban network that reached Toledo, Cleveland and Cincinnati as well as Fort Wayne, Indiana.
In 1920, Lima was served by five steam barns s and Allen County by eight, in addition to five electric interurban lines.
For years, Lima was a crossroads for famous passenger trains including the Nickel Plate Road's Clover Leaf Commercial Traveler and the Erie Railroad's Erie Limited and Lake Cities.
The Pennsylvania Railroad train that in 1912 became known as the Broadway Limited stopped in Lima from its inception in 1902 until 1990.
Railroads began to cut back passenger service to Lima amid the Great Depression.
The Nickel Plate Road ended scheduled passenger service to Lima in 1959, the Erie-Lackawanna in 1970 and the Baltimore & Ohio in 1971.
Freight still moves over most of the historic rail routes in and out of the city, but the last passenger train to stop in Lima was the Broadway Limited, then directed by Amtrak, on November 11, 1990.
The enterprise that became the locomotive works "the Loco," as it was generally called in Lima had its beginnings in 1869 when John Carnes and four partners bought a machine shop that was called the Lima Agricultural Works.
In 1881, Shay granted the Lima works an exclusive license to manufacture his locomotives.
In time, the Lima Locomotive Works a name formally adopted in 1916 would produce 2,761 Shay locomotives, which were sent to 48 states and 24 foreign countries.
A new "super power" design, introduced in 1925, enabled Lima to capture 20% of the nationwide market for locomotives.
It is now on display in Lima's Lincoln Park.
As of 2006, the Lima Locomotive Works plant has been razed.
Currently, there are only a handful of barns s that serve Lima.
CSX Transportation runs through town incessantly and the Norfolk Southern Railway has one train each day to Lima.
This resembles a traditional small-town name used dating back to the Hog Creek Shawnee improve that existed between Lima and present Ada, before to the Shawnee removal of 1831.
This removal made possible the official beginning of "Lima" as a formal town in that year.
Lima is at the intersection of State Route 309 (the initial Lincoln Highway) and Interstate 75, which replaced U.S.
Lima Lima's climate is largely reflective of the variant climate of Ohio.
During the summer months, Lima is apt to smoke and fog and allergens lingering when heat indexes exceed 85 F.
The percentage of college graduates is 9.5%, as stated to the US Enumeration Bureau. The town/city has the highest crime rate for a town/city its size (20 60,000) in Ohio and also the 9th highest per capita in 2006, as stated to the FBI. Published authors from Lima have produced poetry collections, scholarly works, novels and memoirs.
Lynn Lauber, a New York novelist, wrote 21 Sugar Street and White Girls, both somewhat fictionalizing her Lima growing-up years amid the 1960s (in "Union, Ohio").
Musical comedy-drama tv series Glee is set in the fictional William Mc - Kinley High School in Lima, Ohio, although the show is actually filmed in Los Angeles, California.
Lima was also the focus of the 1999 TV documentary "Lost in Middle America (and What Happened Next)" directed by Scott Craig. Famed stand-up comic Lenny Bruce did a comedy routine entitled "Lima, Ohio", in which he talked about the a several weeks he once spent amid the 1950s booked at a club in Lima.
In the 1999 heist film, The Thomas Crown Affair, lead actress Rene Russo's character is an insurance adjuster from Lima, Ohio.
The fictional killer of Buckwheat in 1983 episodes of Saturday Night Live, John David Stutts, was reported to be from Lima, Ohio. The Client in the Charlie's Angels episode "Angels in Springtime" mentions that she is from Lima, Ohio.
In January 1953, a committee composed of John La - Rotonda, Ben Schultz, Dom Trovarelli and Fred Mills organized the Lima Symphony Orchestra.
Lima is home to the Lima Express pro basketball team, UNOH and OSU Lima athletics, as well as various high school sports programs.
Federally, Lima is positioned in Ohio's 4th congressional district, which is represented by Republican Jim Jordan.
Rhodes State College (formerly Lima Technical College) The Ohio State University, Lima Campus.
Lima Senior High School Lima Central Catholic High School Lima is served by one daily newspaper, The Lima News.
As of the 2016-2017 tv season, Lima is ranked by Nielsen Media Research as the second smallest tv market in Ohio, ahead of only Zanesville, and the 190th nationwide. The Lima region is served by four primary broadcast stations, with three of those stations based in the city.
The Lima region is served by 22 FM and 3 AM airways broadcasts.
Lima has been a county-wide medical center since its earliest days.
Rita's Medical Center, a level 2 trauma center, with nearly 4,000 employees as of June 2006, is Allen County's biggest employer while Lima Memorial Health System rates third.
Rita's Medical Center purchased Lima Allen County Paramedics. Lima Allen County Paramedics was established in 1964 and since then has been a vital private emergency and non-emergency ambulance service in the area.
Lima Memorial Health System, formerly Lima Memorial Hospital, a level 2 trauma center, can trace its roots to 1899, when it began as Lima City Hospital.
Formed by the Pastors Union of Lima, the 13-bed facility was the first improve hospital in northwest Ohio.
During the Great Depression, the town/city of Lima helped to finance a larger hospital, which opened on Memorial Day 1933 on the city's east side.
For decades, Lima also had two other hospitals with strikingly different missions.
A longer and stranger history is attached to the facility originally known as the Lima State Hospital for the Criminally Insane.
Situated on 628 acres (2.54 km2) three miles (5 km) north of downtown Lima, the hospital was constructed between 1908 and 1915.
For much of its history, Lima State Hospital functioned largely as a warehouse.
Starting in 1982, Lima State Hospital became a medium-security prison, the Lima Correctional Institution.
Among the city's most distinct ive residentiary neighborhoods, the "Golden Block" on the west side, was almost entirely completed in the 1960s; only the Mac - Donnell House, part of the Allen County Museum, and the YWCA survived. Today, the town/city includes twenty-four buildings and one historic precinct that are listed on the National Register of Historic Places, including the Allen County Courthouse, the postal service, the Hotel Argonne, and the Neal Clothing Building. Lima's Sister Cities Association, formed in 1995, has one current sister town/city as designated by Sister Cities International.
Lima Ohio's Origin, The Great Black Swamp, Malaria and Quinine, by John C.
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"The Interurban System: Electric Trains Eased Rural Isolation," The Lima News, Aug., 16, 2003, p A5 "Lima Engine Steaming Along after 100 Years," The Lima News, Aug.
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