Lima (Ohio)

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Lima
Lima Courthouse
Lima Courthouse
Location in Ohio
Lima (Ohio)
Lima
Lima
Basic data
Foundation : 1831
State : United States
State : Ohio
County : Allen County
Coordinates : 40 ° 44 ′  N , 84 ° 7 ′  W Coordinates: 40 ° 44 ′  N , 84 ° 7 ′  W
Time zone : Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 )
Inhabitants :
-  Metropolitan Area :		 37,873 (as of 2015)
103,742 (as of 2016)
Population density : 1,144.2 inhabitants per km 2
Area : 33.4 km 2  (approx. 13 mi 2 ) of
which 33.1 km 2  (approx. 13 mi 2 ) are land
Height : 268 m
Area code : +1 419,567
FIPS : 39-43554
GNIS ID : 1048916
Website : www.cityhall.lima.oh.us
Mayor : David J. Berger
US Post Office (Lima, Ohio) .JPG
Post office in Lima

Lima (pronounced laɪmə ) is a city ( City ) in the US state of Ohio and the county seat ( the county seat ) of Allen County . The city is located in northwest Ohio on Interstate Highway 75 about 116 km north of Dayton and 125 km south-southwest of Toledo .

At the 2000 census , Lima had 40,081 residents. Lima is part and the major city of the Lima, Ohio Metropolitan Statistical Area , which in turn is part of the Lima-Van Wert-Wapakoneta, Ohio Combined Statistical Area .

After the capital of Peru named city was founded in 1831 and officially in 1834 for the City explained.

history

Early history (until 1831)

In the years after the American Revolutionary War - especially after the Treaty of Greenville (1794) - the Shawnee Indians were the most important population in the region. 1817 created the United States for the Shawnee in the territory of the present county Allen and Auglaize located Hog Creek Reservation . The resettlement of the Shawnee in this reservation made the development of the areas previously inhabited by Indians possible for settlers of European descent, and in February 1820 Allen County was established. In 1831 the Shawnee renounced all territorial claims on the territory of the United States and emigrated to Texas, whereby Allen County was now completely left to the settlers of European descent. Lima became the county seat.

Promotion (1831-1918)

In the following years Lima received its first courthouse, the first school, a doctor moved in, and the first local newspaper appeared. In 1842 Lima was officially declared a city. Henry DeVilliers Williams became the first mayor. The city's economic rise was accelerated when it was connected to the railway network in 1854. A cholera epidemic that began in the neighboring town of Delphos in 1854 led to massive problems with the drinking water supply, which could only be resolved in 1886 when Lima built a municipal water supply system.

The city's most important commercial enterprise was the Lima Agricultural Works , founded in 1869 , which repeatedly changed its name and fields of activity in the following years. In 1882 the company, now known as Lima Machine Works , built the first steam locomotive with a Shay gearbox . In 1885 the businessman Benjamin C. Faurot began to drill for natural gas that he wanted to use for his paper mill; instead of gas it found oil on May 19, 1885 . The oil field that John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil Company brought to Lima remained the largest in the country for a decade.

In 1882 Lima received Benjamin Faurot's Opera House, a theater whose building was so impressive that it was repeatedly copied in New York City. The first film theater was built in 1907. In the early 20th century, Benjamin A. Gramm and Max Bernstein founded the Gramm-Bernstein Company , a pioneering trucking company that produced the Liberty Truck military truck during the First World War .

1920s

The strong population growth after the First World War required a comprehensive reorganization of the city's administration. In political terms, Lima was marked by sharp contrasts at this time. In 1912, voters briefly supported a socialist mayor. A decade later, Lima was a stronghold of the infamous Black Legion of the Ku Klux Klan , who held a parade here on August 1, 1923, which attracted around 100,000 participants.

In economic terms, the 1920s were a boom time for Lima. In 1925 Lima Locomotive Works, Inc. built the Lima A-1 , a machine that became the prototype of the modern steam locomotive. As a subsidiary of the Lima Locomotive Works, Inc. originated Ohio Power Shovel Company . In 1927, John E. Galvin founded the Superior Coach Company in Lima , which over the next two decades became the country's largest producer of school buses and hearses .

Between the wars and the Second World War

As the population of Allen County during the Great Depression continued to grow strongly, the city government was reorganized in 1933 again. Also in 1933, the city received a new hospital, the Lima Memorial Hospital , and gangster John Dillinger escaped from the city's prison in an incident in the course of which the county sheriff , Jess Sarber, was shot and killed.

During the Second World War , Lima's economy flourished after production facilities for cannon barrels and tanks were established here on behalf of the state.

Younger story

When the industry was converted back to the needs of the peacetime after 1945, Lima got into an economic crisis, which was however overcome when the production of tanks was resumed after the beginning of the Korean War (1950-1953). In the 1960s, the boom in Lima continued. In 1962 the city got a new airport, and a little later the Ohio State University opened its own campus in Lima. In January 1969, after a rupture in an oil pipeline, 340,000 liters of oil entered the sewer system in Lima, causing explosions and fires. During the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, the city was repeatedly moved by the civil rights struggle. Race rioting broke out in August 1970 after the shooting of an African American woman.

During the decline of the Rust Belt in the 1970s and 1980s, many industrial companies left Lima. In the following years the passenger train station, the District Tuberculosis Center , which was important up until then , the bus manufacturer Superior Coach Cormpany , the companies Clark Equipment Company , Airfoil Textron and Sundstrand all closed . The population, which was 52,000 in the 1970s, had shrunk to 45,000 by 1999.

Retail has been a flourishing industry in Lima since the 1970s. One of the largest employers is the Ford Motor Company with currently around 1,600 employees .

geography

Lima has the geographical coordinates 40 ° 44'27 "N, 84 ° 6'54" W (40.740700, −84.114997). The city has an area of ​​33.4 km², of which 33.1 km² is land area. The city is located on the Ottawa River , which the locals sometimes refer to as Hawg Creek .

Residents

The 2000 census counted 40,081 residents, 15,410 households and 9,569 families in Lima. The population density was 1,211 per km². 71.3% of the population were white , 24.5% African American , 0.3% Native Americans , 0.5% Asian , 1.0% other; 2.4% said they had mixed ancestry. 2.0% of the population were Hispanics or Latinos .

The average ( median ) household income was 27,067 US $ , the average family income $ 32,405. Males had a median income of $ 29,149 and females $ 22,100. The median income per person was $ 13,882. About 19.2% of families and 22.7% of the population lived below the poverty line .

sons and daughters of the town

Film about Lima

  • Lost in Middle America and what happened next , documentary by Scott Craig and David Crouse, produced for PBS in 2006

Others

Web links

Commons : Lima, Ohio  - Collection of pictures, videos, and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lima city, Ohio , data sheet with the results of the 2000 census at factfinder.census.gov .