Columbiana (Ohio)

Columbiana County Mahoning County

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Columbiana is a city in the west of the State of Ohio, located about halfway between Cleveland and Pittsburgh. The area of the city, both in Columbiana County as well as in Mahoning County. Columbiana has about 6,400 inhabitants. (As of the census of 2010. )

In Columbiana are a number of listed buildings from the time of settlement of Ohio by whites who were listed on the National Register of Historic Places ( NRHP), including the 19th- century former district hospital ( Columbiana County Infirmary ) and the Middle Sandy Presbyterian Church, which is still used as a Presbyterian church.

History

Columbiana was founded in 1805 by Joshua Dixon under the name Dixonville, who named the place after his family. Later Dixonville was renamed in Columbiana. ( After Christopher Columbus, in the English spelling Columbus. ) The place was on the stagecoach route from Pittsburgh to Wooster, and therefore had a number of guesthouses and small forging for repair.

Personalities

• Harvey Samuel Firestone (1868-1938), founder of the Firestone Tire & Rubber Company was born here.