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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM18HQ_canfield-fair_Canfield-OH.html
Side A:In 1846, the same year that Mahoning County was created, Ohio's General Assembly passed an act "for the encouragement of agriculture." An outgrowth of this legislation led to the founding of the Mahoning County Agricultural Society in April…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM18HO_this-tablet-placed-here-in-honor-of-william-h-kilcawley_Canfield-OH.html
Member of the Mahoning County Agricultural Society1945-1958Director and Treasurer
This stone is a glacial boulder transported by the continental ice sheet and deposited when the ice melted about 1000 feet east of this spot.Since it was found on…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM18HN_dean-hill-cemetery-and-disciple-church-site_Canfield-OH.html
Side A:In 1827, noted evangelist Walter Scott came to Canfield and visited with a number of area Baptist families living on Palmyra Road and in the vicinity of Dean Hill. A follower of Alexander Campbell, Scott delivered powerful sermons that pers…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM18HM_elisha-whittlesey_Canfield-OH.html
Side A:On this site stood the home of Elisha and Polly Mygatt Whittlesey and their ten children. Also here was his law office and a records office that was moved in 1965 to Pioneer Village at the Canfield Fairgrounds. Already an attorney in his ho…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM18HK_zion-lutheran-and-reformed-churchyard_Canfield-OH.html
Settlers from Connecticut were the first to come to Canfield Township in the late 1700s, and they were followed by a second wave of immigrants, Swiss-German pioneers who began arriving from Berks and Leigh counties in Pennsylvania in 1804. In 1810…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMRM8_old-mahoning-county-courthouse_Canfield-OH.html
(side A)Mahoning County was created in 1846 by combining townships from southern Trumbull and northern Columbiana counties. Canfield engaged in competition with several surrounding communities for the new county seat, and its success was attribute…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMRM7_the-mahoning-dispatch-building_Canfield-OH.html
For ninety-one years, The Mahoning Dispatch served Canfield and the surrounding communities, earning the distinction of being the oldest continuously published newspaper owned by a single family in Mahoning County. The first edition of the weekly …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMRM6_the-independent-order-of-odd-fellows_Canfield-OH.html
(side A)The Independent Order of Odd Fellows (IOOF) traces its origins to mid-18th-century England, where it served as a mutual benefit society for traveling workmen. Odd Fellowship moved to the United States in 1819; the first Ohio lodge was esta…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMRM5_canfield-wpa-memorial-building_Canfield-OH.html
(side A)The Canfield WPA Memorial Building was constructed by the Works Progress Administration, a federal government program instituted by President Franklin D. Roosevelt as an effort to aid the United States in its recovery from the Great Depres…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMRM4_canfield-war-vet-museum_Canfield-OH.html
The Canfield War Vet Museum was chartered in 1988 by American Legion Post 177 and Ladies Auxiliary to collect and preserve items and history from American wars. The building that houses the museum was built in 1809 by Comfort S. Mygatt, a Revoluti…