Fostoria (Ohio)

Hancock County Seneca County Wood County

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Fostoria is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio, about 65 km south of Toledo. The urban area of ​​Fostoria spans three counties: Hancock, Seneca, and Wood. The city has 14,000 inhabitants (as of the census of 2000). Add Fostoria intersect three railway lines, the area of the intersection is also called Iron Triangle, and is popular with train spotters.

History

1832 moved the father of the then four- year-old Charles Foster with his family on a plot in the wild. To the estate of the Foster family around the place was Rome. 1847 took over the 19 -year-old Charles Foster the shop from his father, and led him so successful that it was named in 1854 after the unification of Rome with the neighboring village of newly emerged Risdon place in his honor Fostoria. In 1867, the Bank Foster Foster & Company. He was also treasurer of Fostoria. In 1870, he left the place to be Republican congressman. He later became governor of Ohio and U.S. Treasury under Benjamin Harrison.

From 1884 natural gas was discovered in northwest Ohio. In the late 1880s were also discovered around Fostoria degradable natural gas reserves, which led to a boom in the city. Charles Foster was also president of the Northwestern Ohio Natural Gas Company, the operating gas production, distribution and sale. From 1902 the natural gas deposits were exhausted, and the Northwestern Ohio Natural Gas Company now built pipelines to West Virginia to import the gas pumped there.

1854 began the Fremont and Indiana Railroad, later Norfolk and Western Railroad, the construction of a railroad from Fremont on Fostoria and Findlay to Indianapolis. 1872 was the second railway line through Fostoria added: the Hocking Valley Railway, later the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway ( CO), presented its railway line from Columbus to Toledo finished. 1873 reached the third railway Fostoria: the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (BO) expanded its route from the Atlantic coast to Chicago. The fourth line was from the New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad (also known as Nickel Plate ) built, and the Atlantic and Lake Erie Railroad, later New York Central Railroad, the fifth and final railway line reached the town. Today there are still three railway lines by Fostoria in operation: the former Nickel Plate line of Norfolk Southern Railway (NS) and the two routes of CSX predecessor companies, on which 180 trains pass through the city daily.

The name of Fostoria is closely associated with the American glass industry. Here the Fostoria Glass Company the household glassware was founded in 1887, produced. Other glass manufacturers moved into the area - a good part of the prospect of a very cheap supply of natural gas for energy-intensive glass production was responsible. As the natural gas dried up in Northwest Ohio, and the industry continues, the gas moved afterwards. The Fostoria Glass Company moved the production to Moundsville in West Virginia, but retained the company name that should be for American glass design in the Depression era synonymous.

Add Fostoria the historic city center ( Fostoria Downtown Historic District ) was established in 2001 on the National Register of Historic Places ( NRHP). Thus, 52 buildings were set to half a square kilometer area under monument protection. Now 20 years earlier twin buildings were added to the NRHP: the Marcus Dana House dates from the first half of the 19th century, during the Fostoria Mausoleum dates from the early 20th century. The mausoleum was built by the architect Issac and Charles Latchaw ( Latchaw Brothers) in the style of " New - Classical Revival ". Despite the name corresponds to the mausoleum of the function after rather a columbarium, as some niches for the storage of urns to different families were rented. Following the same plan as in Fostoria, the brothers built Latchaw still mausoleums in Findlay and Fremont, in Bucyrus there is a also a listed mausoleum of architects.

Personalities

  • Charles Foster (1828-1904), Governor of Ohio and the U.S. Treasury
  • John Quinn (1870-1924), lawyer, art collector and patron of the Post-Impressionism, as well as of literary modernism. Opened the Armory Show.

Sons and daughters of the town

  • James M. Baker, politician and 54th Mayor of Wilmington
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