Ironton

Sheridan House Hotel

Burdine Blake built the three story brick below the Sheridan House Hotel in Ironton, Ohio, in 1850. The frame house adjoining the Sheridan House was built in 1851 by or for John Ward.

Ironton House

Ironton House was a Hotel located in Ironton, Ohio and built in 1850 for Ohio Iron and Coal Co.. Steven White did the brick work.

Former Irontonians

Former Irontonians Where did they go from Here?

Something about them, where they are now-1875

Dr. Briggs, one of the founders of Ironton, and its first Postmaster, is now living at Long Plain, Mass.
William Colvin, the secretary of the company that built the Ironton Rolling Mill, also member of the firm of Yard and Colvin, in the furniture business, where Devine & Bryne’s shoe store now is, has recently been elected Professor of Political Economy of the State Agricultural College at Columbus, Ohio.

Ancient History of Ironton, Ohio

South of the Ohio Iron & Coal Company’s land, which became the plat of Ironton, lay the land owned by the late W. D. Kelly, which extended to a point probably near Fifth and Oak streets, and back to the hills in the rear of the fair grounds,

Lombard Football Team

(Ironton’s Lombard football team was one of the best in the region In the early days of local football in the early 1900’s. The following article is

Ironton Ohio History of Parades

Newspaper files of the past hundred years tell the parade story and Ironton, Ohio’s love of a parade was only disputed once, according to this writer’s knowledge. That challenge was quickly withdrawn during the city centennial celebration in 1949, when Jim Mace, a representative of the company, came to town to produce the pageant told Matt Cloran that the committee was crazy to think six parades in a single week could be a success.

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