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...
by Alliance Historical Society | Apr 6, 2020 | Historic facts
#9. New Guinea Black Colony Around 1805, a colony of black people was located in Lexington township, one mile east of Williamsport, on the north side of the Mahoning River. This settlement comprised about two hundred people, and was made up chiefly of fugitives and...
by Alliance Historical Society | Apr 5, 2020 | Historic facts
#8. Gertrude Kay and Brinton Turkle Delight Children with Their Illustrations Gertrude Kay produced covers and story illustrations for Ladies’ Home Journal and other magazines from around 1908 through the 1920s. During this time she illustrated children’s...
by Alliance Historical Society | Apr 4, 2020 | Historic facts
#7. Brick Industry “Shapes” Alliance Brickmaking began in Alliance during the 1860s with Josiah Rosenberry who took his clay from the ponds that are now on the Glamorgan estate. As early as 1907, James Wilcox’s Alliance Clay Products Company was turning...
by Alliance Historical Society | Apr 3, 2020 | Historic facts
#6. The Opera House Collapse The Alliance Opera House was built in 1867-68 at a cost of $75,000. There were doubts to its safety and arrangements were in progress to put it in a secure condition when it was inspected by J. T. Weybrecht the morning of June 2, 1886. He...
