27 Facts About Canton Ohio

Canton Ohio is the largest municipality in the Canton Ohio-Massillon, OH Metropolitan Statistical Area, which includes all of Stark and Carroll counties.

Canton Ohio is chiefly notable for being the home of the Pro Football Hall of Fame and the birthplace of the National Football League.

Canton Ohio was chosen as the site of the First Ladies National Historic Site largely in honor of his wife, Ida Saxton McKinley.

Canton Ohio was founded in 1805, incorporated as a village in 1822, and re-incorporated as a city in 1838.

Canton Ohio was likely named as a memorial to Captain John O'Donnell, an Irish merchant marine with the British East India Trading Company whom Wells admired.

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Canton Ohio is the site of the William McKinley Presidential Library and Museum and the McKinley National Memorial, dedicated in 1907.

In June 2017 Canton applied for and received a historic marker from the Ohio History Connection, formerly the Ohio Historical Society, to commemorate Debs' speech at Nimisilla Park and other historic events reflecting the park's importance as a gathering place for the community.

Thanks to these two companies, Canton Ohio became an important center for watch manufacturing in the United States.

Canton Ohio makes special bar quality steel, used in applications all over the world.

In 2014 a sculpture titled Birth of the NFL was erected in downtown Canton Ohio marking the exact location in the Hupmobile showroom where the NFL was created in 1920.

Canton Ohio proper is divided into address quadrants by Tuscarawas Street and Market Avenue .

Canton Ohio has a humid continental climate, typical of much of the Midwestern United States, with warm, humid summers and cold winters.

City of Canton is represented by the following U S federal officials:.

Several other large companies operate in the greater-Canton Ohio area, including Timken Company a maker of tapered roller bearings; Belden Brick Company, a brick and masonry producer; Diebold, a maker of ATMs, electronic voting devices, and bank vaults, and Medline Industries, a manufacturer and distributor of health care supplies.

In furtherance of these development initiatives, Canton was one of the first cities in Ohio to create a "designated outdoor refreshment area" legalizing the possession and consumption of "open container" alcoholic beverages in its downtown area.

Canton Ohio Museum of Art, founded in 1935, is a broad-based community arts organization designed to encourage and promote the fine arts in Canton Ohio.

Also, in downtown Canton Ohio, there is a small annex for Stark State College to be used by the early college high school students who are located on the Timken Campus.

Canton Ohio Country Day School is a private PreK-8 school located just outside city limits in nearby Plain Township.

Canton Ohio has the main branch of Stark County District Library.

Canton Ohio is served in print by The Repository, the city's only newspaper.

Canton Ohio has a cable Public-access television channel, Canton Ohio City Schools TV 11.

Canton Ohio Bulldogs were an NFL football team that played from 1920 to 1923, skipped the 1924 season, then played 1925 to 1926 before folding.

Canton Ohio is the home of the annual Pro Football Hall of Fame Enshrinement Festival, which includes a hot air balloon festival, ribs burn-off, fashion show, community parade, Sunday morning race, enshrinee dinner, and the Pro Football Hall of Fame Grand Parade.

Canton Ohio Legends played in the American Indoor Football Association at the Canton Ohio Civic Center.

In 2009, the Canton Ohio Vortex became an expansion team in the Professional Arena Soccer League.

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Canton Ohio has been home to professional baseball on several occasions.

Canton Ohio is home to the Bluecoats Drum and Bugle Corps, a world-class competitor in Drum Corps International.