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25 Top Historical Events in Alliance

During the pandemic of 2020, we published a series of blog posts on 25 top historical events in Alliance. For your convenience, here is a list of all 25 with links to the original posts.

  1. The Alliance (crossing) of the railroads
  2. Taylorcraft Supports the WWII Effort with Planes for England
  3. Morgan Engineering Invents the Traveling Overhead Crane
  4. Red Cross Canteen Serves Troops Passing Through Town
  5. Alliance Ware Revolutionizes Bathtubs and Sinks
  6. The Opera House Collapse
  7. Brick Industry “Shapes” Alliance
  8. Gertrude Kay and Brinton Turkle Delight Children with Their Illustrations
  9. New Guinea Black Colony
  10. Haines Family Helps Enslaved People Move Along the Underground Railroad
  11. The Great Squirrel Hunt of 1832
  12. The Village of Mt. Union
  13. Famous Visitors – Lincoln, Chase, and McKinley
  14. The McCaskey Register Company Revolutionized the Way Shopkeepers Handled the Accounts of Their Customers
  15. Buckeye Jack Company Produces Jacks for the Growing Auto Industry and Railroads
  16. Curvis Rhyne
  17. The Olive Poisoning Kills Seven
  18. Mabel Hartzell Helps to Shape the Community
  19. Levi Lamborn and the Scarlet Carnation
  20. Clarence J. “Bill” Rodman Becomes a Generous Benefactor to the City
  21. Glamorgan Castle, Col. Morgan’s Home
  22. Alliance City Schools Adopt the Aviators as Their Mascot After Charles Lindbergh Flies over the City
  23. Dedication of Williamsport Marker
  24. Main Street Caboose and the Lake Erie, Alliance, and Wheeling Railroad
  25. Goat Hill Neighborhood

Stories of Alliance

  • City Cemetery’s 4-Legged “Employee”
  • Unknown Baby Boy
  • William Campbell – “The Original Fireless Cooker Man”
  • Alliance’s Deadliest Train Accident
  • Black History Resources
  • Learn about local history
  • Alliance’s Worst Disaster – The Orr Block Explosion
  • Carnation Festival rooted in Chautauqua Movement
  • Alliance Municipal Court Mural
  • T. R. Morgan, Sr. put Alliance on industrial map

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Alliance, OH 44601

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