Austintown
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Location in Ohio
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| State : | United States | ||
| State : | Ohio | ||
| County : | Mahoning County | ||
| Coordinates : | 41 ° 6 ′ N , 80 ° 44 ′ W | ||
| Time zone : | Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 ) | ||
| Residents : | 31,627 (as of: 2000) | ||
| Population density : | 1,047.3 inhabitants per km 2 | ||
| Area : | 30.2 km 2 (approx. 12 mi 2 ) of which 30.2 km 2 (approx. 12 mi 2 ) is land |
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| Height : | 344 m | ||
| Postal code : | 44515 | ||
| Area code : | +1 330 | ||
| FIPS : | 39-03184 | ||
| GNIS ID : | 1064362 | ||
Austintown is a township in the American state of Ohio . Settled in 1798, the place is now a suburb of Youngstown in Mahoning County . Austintown has a population of around 30,000. (As of the 2000 census .) Austintown has a high school ("Austintown-Fitch High School"), as well as six shopping centers and nine church buildings.
geography
Youngstown city center is 8 km east of Austintown. Youngstown and the surrounding areas was a center of steel production until the 1960s. With the decline of that industry in Ohio, the city and surrounding areas lost more than half of their population. In 1960 Youngstown still had around 166,000 inhabitants, in 2007 it was around 74,000.
West of Austintown is West Austintown , another township in the Connecticut Reserve. The State Routes OH 11 and OH 46 run through the north-west end of Austintown .
Austintown has a total area of 30.2 km², including no significant body of water. The Ax Factory Run , which originates in West Austintown , meanders from west to east to its confluence with Mill Creek .
history
There are two buildings in Austintown that are listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) and are therefore listed buildings. The log cabin "Austintown Log House" is the oldest existing building in town, and was built in a year 1801 to 1826 by Mary and John H. Packard. The couple's grandchildren, William Doud Packard and James Ward Packard , founded the Packard Electric Company in 1890, the forerunner of Packard Electric (now Delphi Packard Electric Systems ) and Packard Motor Car Company . The Austintown Log House changed hands several times until it became vacant in 1963. In 1973, the neighboring St. Andrews Episcopal Church bought the property with the aim of demolishing the building, which had since been neglected. During the demolition, old tree trunks were discovered behind the clinker brick facade. Two years later the house was listed as a historical monument and restored with donations.
The second building in the NRHP is the Judge William Shaw Anderson House, also known as the Strock Stone House.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ OHIO - Mahoning County on the National Register of Historic Places: Austintown Log House (NRHP listing 1976, # 74001566), House of Judge William Shaw Anderson (NRHP listing 1976, # 76001479)
- ^ A b Joyce Hunsinger Pogany: Austintown . Arcadia Publishing, 2007, ISBN 0-7385-5119-8 , pp. 11, 17-22. (Pogany is chairman of the Austintown Historical Society.)
- ↑ 1890-1901 Creating an Empire, The Rise of Packard. packardtimeline.com, accessed February 26, 2017 .