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Industrial Pioneers Still Going Strong
Connecticut held Ohio lands after the Revolution and sold them to the Connecticut Land Co. The Medina Historical Society notes earliest mills and rail lines, with Rice Lumber Mill in Lodi still running in the eighth generation. The piece covers Henry Furnace, Bennett Lumber, Root jeweler turned bee supply maker, Ohio Match factory origins, and salt mining near Wadsworth with the Wadsworth Salt Co formation in 1893.
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Helen Fry
Connecticut
Ohio
Connecticut Land Co
Medina County
Connecticut Western Reserve
Roger O. Wiley
Highland Ave
Wadsworth
Medina Historical Society
Lodi
Rice
John Rice
Mr. Root
Public Square
Medina
San Antonio
Texas
Council Bluffs
Iowa
Ohio Injector Company
Conval Ohio, Inc
Garfield Injector Co
James Garfield
Jacob Oberholtzer
Frank Kremer
Mechanic Street
Erie Depot
Wiley
Main Street
Henry van Campen
Olean
N.Y
Rittman Road
Mill Road
Wadsworth Salt Co
THE
Bennett Lumber CO
Roy Lehman
Henry Yeager
Scott Bennett
Carter
Homer
Elsie Bennett Wilson
Floyd