Ironton (Ohio)
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Location in Ohio
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| Basic data | |||
| Foundation : | 1848 | ||
| State : | United States | ||
| State : | Ohio | ||
| County : | Lawrence County | ||
| Coordinates : | 38 ° 32 ′ N , 82 ° 41 ′ W | ||
| Time zone : | Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 ) | ||
| Residents : | 11,417 (as of 2005) | ||
| Population density : | 1,067 inhabitants per km 2 | ||
| Area : | 11.4 km 2 (about 4 mi 2 ) of which 10.7 km 2 (about 4 mi 2 ) is land |
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| Height : | 168 m | ||
| Postal code : | 45638 | ||
| Area code : | +1 740 | ||
| FIPS : | 39-37464 | ||
| GNIS ID : | 1076122 | ||
| Website : | www.ironton-ohio.com | ||
Ironton is a city on the Ohio River , and since 1851 the administrative seat of Lawrence County in the south of the US -amerikanischen state of Ohio . Ironton has around 11,200 inhabitants (as of the 2000 census ). This makes Ironton one of the few cities in this area with an increasing population. There is an Ohio University (OU) campus in Ironton .
history
Around 1826, rich deposits of iron ore were discovered in the area of what is now Ironton . At the same time, lumber, coal, lime, and clay were abundant while the Ohio River offered cheap riverboat transportation. Ironton was founded in 1848 by smelter John Campbell to smelt pig iron on site. Campbell had already in 1834 in Mount Vernon Ironworks Mount Vernon Furnace built, which took advantage of a new arrangement of the boiler, the energy of the exhaust gases and ushered in a new feature of the art of iron smelting. The railway line of the Detroit, Toledo and Ironton Railroad (DT&I), also founded in 1849, opened in 1851 to bring ore from the mines of Lawrence County to the port of Ironton, from where the smelted iron was shipped over the Ohio River. After the American Civil War , the local ore deposits slowly declined, but smelting continued with purer ore from Michigan . By the late 19th century, the local iron industry had been pushed into the background by iron production in the Pittsburgh and Youngstown area . The last ironworks in Ironton closed during the Great Depression .
Personalities
- Elza Jeffords (1826-1885), politician
- Henry S. Neal (1828–1906), member of the US Congress and American Ambassador to Portugal
- William H. Enochs (1842–1893), member of the US Congress and Brigadier General in the Army of the Northern States
- John K. Richards (1856-1909), United States Solicitor General from 1897 to 1903
- Thomas A. Jenkins (1880–1959), member of the US Congress from 1925 to 1959
- William C. Lambert (1894–1982), highly decorated fighter pilot of the Royal Flying Corps in the First World War
- George McAfee (1918-2009), football player of the Chicago Bears in the Pro Football Hall of Fame added
- Bobby Bare (born 1935), country singer and songwriter
- Butch Miles (* 1944), jazz drummer
Web links
- History of the city on Ironton's official website
- The Ironton Tribune - Homepage of the local Ironton newspaper
- Ohio University Southern - OU's Ironton campus
Individual evidence
- ^ Federal Writers' Project (Editor): The Ohio Guide . Oxford University Press, 1940, pp. 452-453.