by Alliance Historical Society | Apr 12, 2020 | Historic facts
#15. Buckeye Jack Company Produces Jacks for the Growing Auto Industry and Railroads The Buckeye Jack Company produced jacks for the railroads and the growing auto industry. The initial products of the company were heavy lifting jacks for railroads and industries. As...
by Alliance Historical Society | Apr 11, 2020 | Historic facts
#14. The McCaskey Register Company Revolutionized the Way Shopkeepers Handled the Accounts of Their Customers The McCaskey Register Company manufactured systems for keeping track of cash and credit accounts, revolutionizing the way shopkeepers and businesses handled...
by Alliance Historical Society | Apr 10, 2020 | Historic facts
#13. Lincoln, Chase, and McKinley President-Elect Abraham Lincoln made a brief 20 minute stop at the original Sourbeck House located on the north side of the railroad tracks at the Crossing, on February 15, 1861, as he traveled from Illinois to Washington, DC for his...
by Alliance Historical Society | Apr 9, 2020 | Historic facts
#12.The Village of Mt. Union Jobsville was the first community founded in Washington Township at the intersection of Main Street (now State Street) and Mt. Union Avenue (now Union Avenue). The community requested a post office but the name they wanted, Johnsonville,...
by Alliance Historical Society | Apr 8, 2020 | Historic facts
#11.The Great Squirrel Hunt of 1832 The period of 1827-1832 saw a large number of crops devoured by squirrels. To fight back, two great squirrel hunts were organized. In the 1827 hunt, Littlebury Stanley shot 80 squirrels and Clayton Grant shot 75. During the Great...
by Alliance Historical Society | Apr 7, 2020 | Historic facts
#10. Haines Family Helps Enslaved People Move Along the Underground Railroad The Haines House served as an Underground Railroad station in Alliance, Ohio beginning around 1853. It’s owners, Jonathan Ridgeway Haines and Sarah Grant Haines were Quaker farmers who...
