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Encyclopedia Britannica



MASSILLON

This article appears in Volume V17, Page 868 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: MAR-MEC
MASSILLON , a city of
Stark
  county,
Ohio
 , U.S.A., on the
Tuscarawas river and, the
Ohio
  canal, 8 m. W. of
Canton
 , and about 50 M. S. by E. of
Cleveland
 . Pop. (1900), 11,944 (1693
foreign-born); (1910), 13,879. It is served by the
Pennsylvania
  (Pittsburg, Ft Wayne & Chicago Division), the
Baltimore
  & Ohio and the Wheeling & Lake
Erie
  railways. Massillon is built among hills in a part of the state noted for its large production of coal and wheat and abounding in white
sandstone
 , iron ore and potter's clay. The city has various manufactures, including iron, engines, furnaces, reapers, threshers and bottles. The total value of the factory products in 1905 was $3,707,013, an increase of 34.8% over that of 1900. The first
settlement
  was made in 1825; in 1826 the town was laid out and named
in honour of Jean Baptiste Massillon; it was incorporated a
village
  in 1853, and became a city in 1868.


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