Historic Map - Niles, OH - 1882

Panoramic view of the city of Niles, Trumbull Co., Ohio 1882. Beck & Pauli Lith.

Panoramic reproduction view of the city of Niles, Ohio drawn by Albert Ruger and published by Ruger & Stoner in 1882. Niles was founded in 1806 along the Mahoning River by James Heaton, who owned an iron ore processing plant there. Heaton produced the first bar iron in Ohio. The town originally went by the name "Heaton's Furnace", but was later renamed after Hezekiah Niles, editor of the "Niles Register", a Baltimore newspaper. Niles was situated right in the industrial belt and prospered with iron and steel manufacturing and glassmaking until the economic depression of 1873, which eventually brought down the community's largest industrial firm, James Ward & Co. William McKinley was born in Niles in 1843 and at the time of the map was serving with the United States House of Representatives. The map shows the new iron bridge, completed in this year by the Morse Bridge Co. of Youngstown.

The map features clearly labeled street names with scenes of carriage and railroad traffic.

Features numbered & lettered references to the following locations:

1. Union School
2. City Hall
3. Fire Engine House
4. Post Office
5. N. Y. P. & O. R. R. Depot
6. A. & P. Railway Depot
7. P. & Y. R. R. Depot
8. Bank, A. G. Bently, President
9. Steam Boiler Works, Reeves Bros. Proprietors
10. Globe Foundry & Machine Works, John Carter, Proprietor
11. Saw & Planing Mill, C. P. Souder & Co., Proprietors
12. Hard & Soft Lumber Yard, C. P. Souder & Co., Proprietors
13. Sanford House, L. W. Sanford, Proprietor
14. Commercial House
15. "Trumbull County Independent", (McCormick & Williams, Editors)
    X. Masonic Hall
    O. I. O. O. F. Hall
16. Falcon Iron and Nail Co. Works
17. Ward Iron Co. Works, James Ward, Proprietor
18. L. B. Ward's Sheet Iron Works
19. Fire Brick Yard, J. R. Thomas, Proprietor
20. Blast Furnace, J. R. Thomas, Proprietor
21. Water Flour Mill, Hiram Ohl, Proprietor
22. Sanford House Livery, Sanford & Pearce, Proprietors
23. Commercial House Livery, B. F. Pew, Proprietor
24. Main Street Iron Bridge, 180 feet span, Built by Morse Bridge Co., Youngstown, Ohio, 1882.

A - Church of the Disciples
B - Episcopal Church
C - Methodist Church
D - Welsh Methodist Church
E - Welsh Baptist Church
F - Presbyterian Church
G - Roman Catholic Church
H - Prim. Methodist Church