Fostoria (Ohio)
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Location in Ohio
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| Foundation : | 1854 | ||
| State : | United States | ||
| State : | Ohio | ||
| Counties : |
Hancock County Seneca County Wood County |
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| Coordinates : | 41 ° 10 ′ N , 83 ° 25 ′ W | ||
| Time zone : | Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 ) | ||
| Residents : | 13,931 (as of: 2000) | ||
| Population density : | 741 inhabitants per km 2 | ||
| Area : | 19.4 km 2 (approx. 7 mi 2 ) of which 18.8 km 2 (approx. 7 mi 2 ) is land |
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| Height : | 238 m | ||
| Postal code : | 44830 | ||
| Area code : | +1 419 | ||
| FIPS : | 39-28014 | ||
| GNIS ID : | 1064668 | ||
| Website : | www.ci.fostoria.oh.us | ||
| Mayor : | John A. Davoli | ||
Fostoria is a city in the American state of Ohio , about 65 km south of Toledo . The metropolitan area of Fostoria spans three counties : Hancock , Seneca and Wood . The city has almost 14,000 inhabitants (as of the 2000 census ). Three railway lines cross in Fostoria, the area of the crossing is also known as the Iron Triangle , and is popular with train spotters .
history
In 1832, the father of the then four-year-old Charles Foster and his family settled on a piece of land in the wilderness. The town of Rome was built around the Foster family's estate. In 1847, the 19-year-old Charles Foster took over the shop from his father and ran it so successfully that in 1854, after Rome was united with the neighboring village of Risdon, the new town was named Fostoria in his honor. In 1867, Foster founded the Foster & Company bank . He was also treasurer of Fostoria. In 1870 he left to become a Republican Congressman. He later became governor of Ohio and then US Treasury Secretary under Benjamin Harrison .
From 1884 natural gas was discovered in northwest Ohio . In the late 1880s, exploitable natural gas deposits were discovered around Fostoria, which led to a boom in the city. Charles Foster was also president of the Northwestern Ohio Natural Gas Company, which operated gas production, distribution, and sales. By 1902, the natural gas reserves were exhausted, and the Northwestern Ohio Natural Gas Company was now building pipelines to West Virginia to import the gas produced there.
In 1854 the Fremont and Indiana Railroad , later Norfolk and Western Railroad , began building a railroad from Fremont via Fostoria and Findlay to Indiana . In 1872 the second railway line through Fostoria was added: the Hocking Valley Railway , later Chesapeake and Ohio Railway (CO), completed its line from Columbus to Toledo . In 1873 the third railway line reached Fostoria: the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (BO) built its line from the Atlantic coast to Chicago . The fourth line was built by the New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad (also known as the Nickel Plate ), and with the Atlantic and Lake Erie Railroad , later the New York Central Railroad , the fifth and final railroad reaches the place. Today, three rail lines through Fostoria are still in operation: the former Nickel Plate line of the Norfolk Southern Railway (NS) and the two lines of the CSX predecessor companies, on which 180 trains daily cross the city.
The name of Fostoria is closely associated with the American glass industry . The Fostoria Glass Company was founded here in 1887, producing household glassware. Other glass manufacturers also settled here - to a large extent, the prospect of a very cheap supply of natural gas for energy-intensive glass production was responsible for this. When natural gas dried up in Northwest Ohio, so did industry, lagging behind natural gas. The Fostoria Glass Company moved production to Moundsville , West Virginia , but kept the company name, which was to become synonymous with American glass design during the Depression.
In Fostoria, the historic city center ( Fostoria Downtown Historic District ) was added to the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in 2001. This means that 52 buildings on half a square kilometer have been placed under monument protection. Twenty years earlier, two individual buildings were included in the NRHP: the Marcus Dana House dates from the first half of the 19th century, while the Fostoria Mausoleum dates from the beginning of the 20th century. The mausoleum was built by the architects Issac and Charles Latchaw (Latchaw Brothers) in the style of the " New Classical Revival ". Despite the name, the function of the mausoleum is more like a columbarium , as individual niches for the storage of urns were rented to different families. According to the same construction plan as in Fostoria, the Latchaw brothers built mausoleums in Findlay and Fremont , and in Bucyrus there is also a listed mausoleum of the architects.
Personalities
- Charles Foster (1828–1904), Ohio Governor and Secretary of the Treasury
- John Quinn (1870–1924), lawyer, art collector and promoter of post-impressionism and literary modernism. Opened the Armory Show .
sons and daughters of the town
- James M. Baker (born 1942), politician and 54th Mayor of Wilmington
- Micah Hyde (born 1990), American football player
- Ken Russell (1935-2014), American football player
literature
- Paul H. Krupp: Fostoria, Ohio . Arcadia Publishing, Chicago (IL) 2002. ISBN 0-7385-0845-4 .
- Paul H. Krupp: Fostoria, Ohio , Vol. 2. Arcadia Publishing, Chicago (IL) 2002. ISBN 0-7385-2005-5 .
Web links
- Fostoria Rail Preservation Society (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Rebecca Goodman and Barrett J. Brunsman: This Day in Ohio History . Emmis Books, 2005, p. 21. ISBN 1-57860-191-6
- ^ A b Burton Folsom: Why Did Free Gas Create a Public Stink? In: "Mackinac Center for Public Policy" of August 7, 2006. ISSN 1093-2240
- ↑ Ken Fones-Wolf: Glass towns: industry, labor and political economy in Appalachia, 1890-1930s . University of Illinois Press, 2006, p. 81. ISBN 0-252-07371-1
- ^ OHIO - Seneca County on the National Register of Historic Places: Fostoria Downtown Historic District (NRHP 2001, # 01001065)
- ^ OHIO - Hancock County on the National Register of Historic Places: Marcus Dana House (NRHP listing 1980, # 80003095), Fostoria Mausoleum (NRHP listing 1978, # 78002085)
- ↑ Bucyrus Mausoleum ( Memento of the original from December 27, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the Bucyrus Preservation Society website. (Retrieved April 11, 2009.)
