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Encyclopedia Britannica



CANTON

This article appears in Volume V05, Page 221 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: CAL-CAR
CANTON , a city and the county-seat of Stark county,
Ohio
 , U.S.A., on Nimisillen Creek, 6o m. S. by E. of Cleveland. Pop. (189o) 26,189; (1900) 30,667, of whom 4018 were foreign-born;. and (2910) 50,217. It is served by the
Pennsylvania
 , the Baltimore &
Ohio
 , and the Wheeling & Lake Erie railways, and is connected by an interurban electric system with all the important cities and towns within a radius of 5o M. It lies at an
elevation
  of about 1030 ft. above sea-level, in a wheat-growing region, in which bituminous coal, limestone, and brick and potter's clay abound. Meyer's Lake in the vicinity is a summer attraction. The principal buildings are the post-office, court-
house
 , city
hall
 , an auditorium with a seating capacity of 5000, a Masonic building, an Oddfellows' temple, a Y.M.C.A. building and several handsome churches. On Monument Hill, in West Lawn Cemetery, in a park 'of 26 acresa site which President
McKinley
  had suggested for a monument to the soldiers and sailors of Stark countythere is a beautiful monument to the memory of
McKinley
 , who lived in Canton. This memorial is built principally of Milford (Mass.) granite, with a bronze statue of the president, and with sarcophagi containing the bodies of the president and Mrs McKinley, and has a total height, from the first step of the approaches to its top, of 163 ft. 6 in., the mausoleum itself being 98 ft. 6 in. high and 78 ft. 9 in. in
diameter
 ; it was dedicated on the 3oth of September 1907, when an address was delivered by President
Roosevelt
 . Another monument commemorates the American soldiers of the Spanish-American War. Among the city's manufactures are agricultural implements, iron bridges and other structural iron work, watches and watch-cases, steel, engines, safes, locks, cutlery, hardware, wagons, carriages, paving-bricks, furniture, dental and surgical chairs, paint and varnish, clay-working machinery and saw-mill machinery. The value of the factory product in 1905 was $10,591,143, being 1o.6 % more than the product value of 1900. Canton was laid out as a town in 18o5, became the county-seat
in 18o8, was incorporated as a
village
  in 1822 and in 1854 was chartered as a city.


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