Massillon (Ohio)

Stark County

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Massillon is a city in Stark County in the U.S. state of Ohio, just west of Canton and about 80 km south of Cleveland. In the 2000 census, the city had about 31,000 inhabitants.

In Massillon there are several listed buildings and of buildings that have been added to the National Register of Historic Places ( NRHP). These include the residence Five Oaks (NRHP Recording 1973), the historic city center as Fourth Street Historic District (1982 ), the First Methodist Episcopal Church (1985 ), the First National Bank Building (1987) and the Ideal Department Store Building (1992 ).

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Walter Folger Brown (1869-1961), United States Postmaster General from 1929 to 1933
  • Dorothy Gish (1898-1968), actress
  • Harry Turner chair (1901-1965), American football player
  • Bobby Grier ( born 1933), the first black football player who participated in a game of the Sugar Bowl. (Finale 1956)
  • Gary A. Strobel ( b. 1938 ), plant physiologist and biochemist
  • Mark Kozelek (born 1967 ), singer and songwriter
  • Kyle Myricks (* 1982 ), rapper, better known as Stalley
  • Matt Lanter (* 1983), actor

Those who worked in Massillon

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