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...
by Alliance Historical Society | Apr 1, 2020 | Historic facts
#4. Red Cross Canteen Serves Troops Passing Through Town The Alliance chapter of the Red Cross established a Canteen Committee to provide meals for the troops during World War I and again during World War II. In November 1918, a room at the Pennsylvania Depot was...
by Alliance Historical Society | Mar 31, 2020 | Historic facts
#3. Morgan Engineering Invents the Traveling Overhead Crane During the lifetime of Thomas R. Morgan, Sr., many notable milestones in the history of the company occurred, among them, the first Overhead Travelling Crane ever built in the United States in 1878; the first...
by Alliance Historical Society | Mar 30, 2020 | Historic facts
#2. Taylorcraft Supports the WWII Effort with Planes for England O-57 in production at the Taylorcraft hangar. The airplanes would be used by the Army Air Corps as a liaison airplane with ground forces. The “O” was the Army’s term for...
