Stark
Alliance-Birthplace of Ohio’s State Flower – The Scarlet Carnation
Alliance, OH
In 1866, Alliance physician, amateur horticulturalist, and politician Dr. Levi Lamborn propagated the scarlet carnation from French...
Clearview Golf Club, 1946
Golfer and World War II veteran William J. Powell, excluded from playing on many American golf courses because of his race, overcame the...
Constitution Day
Louisville, OH
At this site on September 17, 1952, an assembly of Louisville citizens led by Olga T. Weber joined U.S. Congressman Frank T. Bow in...
Deer Creek Quaker Cemetery
Deer Creek Quaker Cemetery was established on land donated by Isaac Coates, who brought his family from Chester County, Pennsylvania to...
Football Pioneer Paul E. Brown
Massillon, OH
Paul E. Brown, born September 7, 1908 in Norwalk, Ohio, and raised in Massillon, is a member of the Professional Football Hall of Fame...
Hoover Historical Center
North Canton, OH
This house, built in 1853, was the boyhood home of vacuum cleaner entrepreneur William Henry “Boss” Hoover (1849-1932), whose...
Inventor Henry Timken
Canton, OH
Born near Bremen, Germany, carriage builder Henry Timken (1831-1909) designed significant improvements in roller bearings–fundamental...
Lexington Quaker Cemetery
The earliest settlers to Lexington Township were members of the Society of Friends, or Quakers, many who came from Virginia and New...
Lillian Gish (1893-1993) & Dorothy Gish (1898-1968)
Massillon, OH
Stars of the silent screen, Lillian and Dorothy Gish enjoyed long and distinguished careers both in film and on stage.
Magnolia Cemetery
Magnolia, OH
Burial Site of Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient Private First Class Joe R. Hastings, U.S. Army, World War II Hastings, the squad...
Martin Luther King Jr. in Canton
Canton, OH
“All life is interrelated in today’s world.
Mount Union Stadium- Ohio’s Oldest College Football Stadium
Alliance, OH
Built with the support of the Mount Union Alumni Athletic Association, the stadium played host to its first football game on November 1,...
Nimisilla Park
Canton, OH
Nimisilla Park was established in 1894.
Nobles Pond (33ST357)
On this location 11,000 years ago, at the end of the Ice Age, there existed a large encampment of early Paleoindian hunters.
Ohio and Erie Canal
Canal Fulton, OH
Sounds of boat horns and brawling packet crews resounded for many years at this lock and 142 others on the Ohio and Erie Canal.
Private William R. Richardson Burial Site of Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient
Massillon, OH
As a member of the 2nd Ohio Volunteer Cavalry that fought at the Battle of Sailor’s Creek in Virginia on April 6, 1865, the last major...
Robert Pinn
Massillon, OH
During the Civil War in 1863, twenty-year-old Massillon farmer Robert Pinn enlisted in the 5th Regiment, Company I, United States Colored...
Sandy Valley Cemetery
Waynesburg, OH
A soldier in Company A, 148th Infantry, 37th “Buckeye” Infantry Division, Cicchetti was part of the assault on the first important line...
The Cradle of Professional Football
Canton, OH
On September 17, 1920, representatives from ten professional football teams met in Canton and formed the American Professional Football...
The Crossing
Alliance, OH
The coming of the railroads to Alliance is an important event in Stark County’s history.
The Little Steel Strike of 1937 / The Little Steel Strike of 1937
Massillon, OH
During the New Deal of the 1930s, the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) formed the Steel Workers Organizing Committee (SWOC)...
The Mc Kinley National Memorial
Canton, OH
William McKinley served the nation as president, the people of Ohio as governor, and the citizens of his congressional district as a...
The Sultana Tragedy / The Deceased of Co. F, 115th Ohio Volunteer Infantry
Alliance, OH
Soldiers from Company F of the 115th Ohio Volunteer Infantry died in the explosion of the steamboat Sultana seven miles north of Memphis...
Walsh University
North Canton, OH
The Brothers of Christian Instruction founded Walsh University in 1958.
William Mc Kinley
Canton, OH
William McKinley’s house, once located at this site, was the scene of his 1896 front porch campaign for President of the United States.