Massillon, Ohio Massillon, Ohio City of Massillon Lincoln Way in downtown Massillon in 2006 Lincoln Way in downtown Massillon in 2006 Location of Massillon in Stark County Location of Massillon in Stark County Massillon is a town/city in Stark County in the U.S.
Massillon is the second biggest incorporated region inside the Canton-Massillon, OH Metropolitan Statistical Area.
1.1 Port of Massillon 1.3 Massillon Bridge Company 1.4 Massillon State Hospital 1.7 Massillon Steel Joist 7.1 Massillon Museum 8.2 Massillon Tigers Mc - Kinley Hall, Ohio State Hospital, Massillon, Ohio (1915 Postcard) Ohio and Erie Canal in Massillon at the turn of the century Massillon State Hospital in early 1900s James Duncan of New Hampshire first settled in Kendal before recording the plot for Massillon on December 6, 1826.
Duncan, known as the city's founder, titled the town after Jean Baptiste Massillon, a French Catholic bishop, at the request of his wife. The town plat was established along the east bank of the Tuscarawas River, which was the surveyed route for the Ohio and Erie Canal being constructed to connect Lake Erie with the Ohio River.
The canal section spanning from Cleveland to Massillon was instead of in 1828. Massillon quickly became a primary port town along the canal route, known as the Port of Massillon, following the canal's culmination in the 1832. The first telegraph lines would reach Massillon in 1847, and the Ohio & Pennsylvania Railroad would extend its rails to Massillon in 1852. Massillon incorporated as a village in 1853.
In 1868, Massillon incorporated as a town/city when the populated reached 5,000. Russell and his brothers, Nahum Russell and Clement Russell, produced threshing machines and other agricultural implements in Massillon.
In 1884, Russell & Company begain producing its famed steam traction engines and quickly became one of the biggest producers of industrialized and agricultural equipment. A consolidation with the Griscom-Spencer business in 1912 created the Griscom-Russell Company. Griscom-Russell produced heat exchangers for the United States Navy amid World War II. The business closed in 1962. Massillon Bridge Company The Massillon Iron Bridge Company was established by Joseph Davenport in 1869 after moving to Massillon from Boston to work at the C.
Davenport also invented and assembled the first locomotive "cowcatcher" and cab in Massillon.
The business incorporated in 1887 as The Massillon Bridge Company.
The Massillon Bridge Company designed and assembled steel truss bridges up through the mid-1900s, many of which stand today.
Massillon State Hospital The Massillon State Hospital for the Insane opened in 1898 on 240 acres of territory given to the state of Ohio for the purpose of constructing the hospital.
The Forest City Motor Company was established in Cleveland in 1906 but relocated to Massillon that same year. Forest City produced approximately 1,000 of their Jewel automobiles in Massillon between 1906 and 1909.
Although steelmaking and fabrication is found throughout its history, some say Massillon's steel age didn't start until 1909, when the first sheet of steel was rolled at the Massillon Rolling Mill Company.
Massillon Rolling consolidated into the Central Steel Company in 1914, and lit its first open hearth furnace in 1915.
In April 1930, Central Alloy consolidated with Republic Steel, becoming the third biggest steel business in the world, with its Massillon operations employing nearly one-half of the city's workforce by 1959.
This encompassed other Massillon divisions like Massillon Union Drawn Steel and its stainless steel division Enduro Stainless.
In 1984 Republic Steel was purchased by LTV Steel. Enduro closed in 1985, and it and other stainless plants went through a several ownership shifts over the following 15 years. The chief Republic facilities on the southwest side of Massillon closed by 2002. Massillon Steel Joist Stanley Macomber designed the open-web steel joist in 1921 while working for Massillon's Central Steel Company. Macomber left Central Steel and established the Massillon Steel Joist Co.
His open-web steel joist, patented in 1924, was known as the Massillon Steel Joist.
Lincoln Highway (US-30) looking east into Downtown Massillon, 1966 highway to run from coast to coast, was envisioned in 1913 and followed Main Street through the center of Massillon.
30 around to the city's most southern part. The old Lincoln Highway that runs through Massillon and Canton was reassigned as State Route 172.
Massillon was a site where one of the most tragic instances of anti-union violence in the history of the United States occurred.
The Steel Workers Organizing Committee began an attempt to organize workers at Republic Steel in the spring of 1937, following the unionizing of workers at the country's two biggest steel companies US Steel and Jones & Laughlin Steel.
In retaliation, Republic Steel expelled over 1000 union supporters at plants in Canton and Massillon.
On May 26, the union eventually called for all workers at Republic Steel, Youngstown Sheet and Tube, and Inland Steel (together known as Little Steel) to strike in response to the treatment of workers in Massillon and Canton.
On the evening of July 11, 1937, a car floundered to dim its headlights as it approached a police barracade near a picket line at one of the Massillon plants.
Ohio Historical Marker #18-76 was erected in 2004 in front of the Massillon City Hall in memory of the Little Steel Strike of 1937. Coxey, Sr., sometimes known as General Coxey of Massillon, was an American politician who ran for elective office a several times in Ohio.
He twice led Coxey's Army, in 1894 and 1914, consisting of a group of unemployed men that he led on marches from Massillon to Washington, D.C., to present a "Petition in Boots" demanding that the Congress allocate funds to problematic jobs for the unemployed.
Jacob Coxey was propel mayor of Massillon in 1931 and served one year. Massillon is at 40 47 48 N 81 31 17 W (40.7967, 81.5214), along the Tuscarawas River. According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 18.76 square miles (48.59 km2), of which 18.58 square miles (48.12 km2) is territory and 0.18 square miles (0.47 km2) is water. Aqua Ohio (incorporated 1926 as the Massillon Water Service Company) Massillon Cable TV, established 1965 Massillon has a central company precinct along Lincoln Way stretching from approximately State Route 21 to Wales Road.
There are a several shopping areas, prominently Towne Plaza, Amherst Shopping Center, Mayflower Shopping Center, Massillon Marketplace and Meadows Plaza.
Massillon City Council The Massillon municipal court fitness serves all inhabitants in Stark county positioned in the metros/cities of Massillon, Canal Fulton and Bethlehem Twp, Jackson Twp., Lawrence Twp., Perry Twp., Sugar Creek Twp., Tuscarawas Twp., Villages of Beach City, Brewster, Hills and Dales, Navarre and Wilmot. The town/city is mainly served by the Massillon City School District.
Other districts serve areas near, or outside of, Massillon town/city limits.
Drage Career Technical Center of the Stark County Area Vocational School District is positioned inside town/city limits. Private schools serving the Massillon region include Massillon Christian School, St.
Ashland University, based in Ashland, Ohio, has a satellite ground in Massillon that offers graduate degrees in company and education, as well as experienced evolution and licensure courses. Massillon Museum Massillon Museum The Massillon Museum was established in 1933 in order to preserve the city's rich history. The exhibition was accredited in 1972 by the American Alliance of Museums and is presently positioned downtown in the historic Gensemer Brothers Dry Goods building. The exhibition's compilation encompasses approximately 100,000 objects in 94 categories, 60,000 photographs, and 18,000 archival and reference documents.
Robert Immel of Massillon using tools from his dental practice. In 1989, the play Dear Mother and All, a World War I play based on letters of Massillon native Charles Vernon Brown and his friends and family, debuted at the theatre. The Ohio Military Museum is directed by the Ohio Society Of Military History and is home to thousands of artifacts and tributes to the men and women of Ohio who served in the armed forces.
The City of Massillon Parks & Recreation Department operates a recreation center, senior center, and 35 parks and open spaces. Massillon's municipal golf course, The Legends of Massillon, opened in 1995. The City maintains the Stark County section of the Sippo Valley Bike & Hike Trail, dominant trail users to Dalton in Wayne County. The Ohio and Erie Canal Towpath Trail also passes through the city. Football has long been one of the most prominent contributions to the culture of Massillon.
While the first players known to be paid to play football are believed to have played for club squads in the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania area, perhaps the first great experienced football rivalry was between the Massillon Tigers and Canton Bulldogs from 1903 to 1906 and 1915 to 1919.
This rivalry predates both the NFL and the aforementioned rivalry between the Massillon and Canton high schools which continue to use the nicknames of these early experienced teams.
Massillon Tigers The name Massillon is most prominently associated with the Massillon Washington High School football team, the Tigers.
Distinguished Massillon alumni include former Ohio State University, Cleveland Browns, and Cincinnati Bengals coach Paul Brown, and former Ohio State University player and former NFL All-Pro linebacker Chris Spielman. The Tigers are historically one of the winningest high school football squads in the United States, second only to Valdosta High School in Valdosta, Georgia. Along with the Canton Mc - Kinley High School Bulldogs, the Tigers represent one half of what many consider to be the greatest high school football rivalry in the nation. Both Massillon and their fierce rivalry with Canton are subjects of the 2001 documentary film Go Tigers!. The assembly of Paul Brown Tiger Stadium in Massillon was instead of in 1939 through the Works Progress Administration program. The stadium presently holds 16,884 citizens and is titled after former Tiger player and head coach Paul Brown.
Besides being the regular season home of the Massillon Tiger Football team, the stadium hosts various Ohio High School Athletic Association state football playoff games as well as divisional championship games. The stadium also hosts the annual Pro Football Hall of Fame drum and bugle corps competition. The stadium is marked with a historical marker dedicated to Paul Brown and his donation to the sport Massillon's Paul L.
The Massillon Tigers have accumulated 22 state AP championships and 9 nationwide AP championships amid the school's history.
As of 2012, the Tigers have accumulated an overall record of 837-249-35, a record not approached by any other Ohio high school football team.
There have been 23 experienced players, 3 NFL coaches, and 14 collegiate all-Americans that have graduated from Massillon Washington High School. The Massillon Tiger Swing Band was created by George "Red" Bird in 1938 amid the Paul Brown era of Massillon football.
The band became known as "The Greatest Show in High School Football" and is still a very meaningful part of the Massillon football tradition.
The Tiger Swing band begins every home football game with the traditional hometown music of Massillon Will Shine, Stand Up and Cheer (to acknowledge the other team), the National Anthem, Eye of the Tiger and the WHS Alma Mater.
In July 2008 Massillon was impel as one of only twenty metros/cities nationwide as a finalist in ESPN's "Titletown U.S.A" contest. On July 21, a rally was held at Paul Brown Tiger Stadium while ESPN filmed a segment that was aired on Sports - Center.
Massillon rather than fourth in the voting behind Valdosta, Georgia; Parkersburg, West Virginia; and Green Bay, Wisconsin. Massillon is served by the following state and federal highways: US Route 30, US Route 62, Ohio State Route 21, Ohio State Route 172, Ohio State Route 241, Ohio State Route 236, and Ohio State Route 93.
Corman barns s furnish freight service in Massillon.
Massillon is part of the greater Cleveland and Akron markets.
The Independent is the small-town journal serving the town/city of Massillon and Stark County. WTIG AM 990 is positioned in Massillon and serves the small-town Massillon/Western Stark County area. Massillon Cable TV provides small-town access tv for Massillon as well as portions of Bethlehem, Jackson, Perry, and Tuscarawas townships. Bill Berry and his family moved to Massillon in 1971 Joseph Davenport, founder of the Massillon Bridge Company, inventor of the locomotive cab and cow catcher Lin Houston, an All-American guard who played for Paul Brown in Massillon, at Ohio State and with the Cleveland Browns Stanfield Wells, Massillon's first All-American football player, chose in 1910 "MASSILLON, OH - ZIP Code Database, ZIP Code Maps".
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