Minerva (Ohio)
Carroll County Columbiana County Stark County
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Minerva is a village in Carroll County, Columbiana County and Stark County in the U.S. state of Ohio. The population was 3,934 at the census in 2000.
Geography and transport
Minerva was the Great Trail, one -way connection that had created the Native Americans between the Great Lakes and the later New England states on the Atlantic coast. Although the Great Trail was later often referred to as "war path ", he was primarily a trade route. In place of the Great Trails today leads the Ohio State Route 183 (SR -183 ), which branches off in Minerva from U.S. Highway 30, through the Carroll County to Malvern. There is a " historical marker " on the Great Trail at the intersection of Linden Road and SR -183 west of Minerva.
Along the trails in the present territory of Minerva to French troops, who were in 1755 or in 1758 fled from the approaching British, to have buried treasure. The treasure was never found, but today the festival of the Lost French Gold is celebrated annually in Minerva.
History
The first country in this area was in 1813 Issac Craig in 1813. John Whitacre, a surveyor, who lived in Columbiana County, recognized the opportunity to build a mill with a water wheel in a waterfall in Little Sandy Creek. 1818 Whitacre bought the 50 -acre area on the Little Sandy Creek, which later became part of the Sandy Beaver Canal and built in the same year the mill. The city was named after John Whitacre's niece, Minerva Ann Taylor, named. The Log Cabin, was born in Minerva Ann is still preserved and stands near the place where once the mill was built.
The first school house was built 1846. Having the Sandy Beaver Canal had increasingly lost in the 1840s, more important, the railroad came to Minerva as the main means of transportation. 1868 was built a railway line from Pennsylvania to Minerva. The brothers Willard and Isaac Pennock built the first railroad car, which actually consisted of iron, and got a patent for it.
Personalities
- Charles Erwin Wilson (1890-1961), born in Minerva, Secretary of Defense under President Dwight D. Eisenhower
- William McKinley (1823-1901), 25th President of the United States, the summer months spent mostly on the few miles east of Minerva located McKinley farm.