The first nail factory in Ohio opened in l8l8 in Akron. The iron nails, partly made by hand, sold for 25 cents per pound.

A genus of American and Asiatic herbs or shrubs, family Solanaceae, having sticky foliage and tubular flowers. A sweet smelling annual flower that blooms and releases its scent late in the afternoon and evening.

(Acer platanoides) A handsome European maple much planted for shade in the U.S. Since l900 many have escaped into the wild from home landscapes.

Born in 1872 on a canal boat in Chillicothe, he was raised on the canals and became a canal boat captain on one of his families two boats (still owned by his mother) when his … more →