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Map of former Scioto Ordnance Plant Scioto Ordnance Plant property line on 1973 air photo. The Scioto Ordnance Plant (SOP) was a munitions and incendiary bomb-making facility built in Marion County, Ohio, by the United States Army in 1942, and operated under lease by United States Rubber Company – most recently known as Uniroyal.
Summary of productive mines in the Fosterville neighborhood: . Foster No.1 Mine (1873-1884) operated by the Foster Coal Company; produced 400 tons/day and was the most productive of all South Side Youngstown mines; original entrance located just east of current home at 537 Hylda Street; shaft currently capped with 12-inch (300 mm) concrete with reinforced one-inch steel bars.
Beallsville (/ ˈ b ɛ l z v ɪ l / BELLZ-vil [5]) is a village in Monroe County, Ohio, United States.As of the 2020 census, the population was 355.The village gained national attention by losing more than 1% of its population killed in action in the Vietnam War, the worst per-capita loss of life experienced by any place in the country.
At the start of World War One, the company was the largest producer of mining locomotives and coal cutting machines in the world. [10] By 1920, the company employed nearly 4,000 workers. [3] Joseph Jeffrey died in 1928, but ownership of the company passed to his children. [2] In 1962, the company expanded production.
The museum was formed in 2003 by David O'Maley Sr. and opened to the public on 21 May 2005. [7] [8] O'Maley is a former CEO of Ohio National Life Insurance Company. [9] In 2006, a TBM Avenger aircraft operated by the museum taxied into a homebuilt plane at the 2006 Oshkosh fly in. A passenger in the homebuilt was killed.
Over 14,000 people were employed at the Arsenal during World War II, [2] and the village of Windham was chosen as the site to house many of these workers. Windham experienced a population boom as a result; its growth of over 1200 % was the largest of any U.S. municipality in the 1950 Census , as was reported in the June 1951 edition of National ...
Harrison County was a top coal-producing county in Ohio. The general history of mining in this county and Eastern Ohio is covered by Ida Mae Stull. She was nationally recognized as the country's first woman coal miner, [2] to the decline of the industry during the 1980s. Items from local mines are also on display.
Constructed during World War I, it became the location of the Aviation Service's Engineering Division in 1919. World War I Air Service units assigned to McCook Field were: [2] 246th Aero Squadron, November 1917; Re-designated as Squadron "A", July–August 1918. 881st Aero Squadron (Repair), February 1918; Re-designated as Squadron "B", July ...