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Alliance, Ohio

Alliance is in Stark County.

About Alliance, Ohio

History of Alliance

• Alliance was founded in 1854 by the merger of three smaller communities: Williamsport, formed in 1827, Freedom, formed in 1838, and Liberty, formed in 1850 to act as a station and support hub for the Cleveland and Pittsburgh Railroad.
• A fourth community, Mount Union, was added in 1888, and Alliance was incorporated as a city in 1889.

Landmarks and Places in Alliance

• Glamorgan Castle, the restored former home of the owner of Morgan Engineering, listed on the National Register of Historic Places
• The Haines House, a restored Underground Railroad home listed on the National Register of Historic Places
• The Mabel Hartzell historic home, listed on the National Register of Historic Places

The Alliance Economy

• Alliance was a manufacturing and railroad hub in the twentieth century, and the railroads brought raw materials in for factories and carried finished goods out.
• Main Street was originally laid out to bring traffic to the train station, which was the heart of the city's transportation hub.
• The Alliance Rubber Company, founded in the city in 1923, made rubber bands cut from discarded rubber rings.

Community Life in Alliance

• Alliance has held an annual Carnation Festival each August since 1960.
• On January 29 each year, President McKinley's birth anniversary, a bouquet of red carnations is placed in the hands of McKinley's statue at the Capitol in Columbus.
• The name of Levi L. Lamborn, who cultivated the scarlet carnation, can still be seen on the facade of a building in the old downtown district.

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