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Flooding of the Ohio River in 1937. Bellaire gained the title of "Glass City" for the period of 1870 to 1885. The area had modern transportation, an energy source, and a skilled workforce. The transportation infrastructure included the Ohio River, the National Road, [6] and railroads, including the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad and the Central Ohio ...
English: Perspective map not drawn to scale. Also shows Benwood, West Virginia. LC Panoramic maps (2nd ed.), 680 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes index to points of interest, directory, and view "Southern extension of Belmont Street." AACR2: 100; 651/1; 700/1; 710/2
The Bellaire Goblet Company was the largest manufacturer of goblets (glass stemware) in the United States during the 1880s.Its original glass plant was located in Bellaire, Ohio, a town that earned the nickname "Glass City" because of its many glass factories.
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Belmont County, Ohio, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in an online map.
Ohio counties (clickable map) This is a list of properties and districts in Ohio that are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. There are over 4,000 in total. Of these, 73 are National Historic Landmarks. There are listings in each of Ohio's 88 counties.
The city of Bellaire, which had 17 glass furnaces in 1884, had only have 3 furnaces remaining by 1891. [34] The Belmont Glass Works closed in 1890, and the plant was torn down. In 1893, the Novelty Stamping Company began operating in a new building constructed on the site of the former glass works.
The Belmont County community of Bellaire, located on the Ohio side of the Ohio River across from Wheeling, West Virginia, was known as "Glass City" from 1870 to 1885. [11] In early 1886, a major discovery of natural gas (the Karg Well) occurred in northwest Ohio near the small village of Findlay. [12] Communities in northwestern Ohio began ...
Map of the United States with Ohio highlighted. Ohio is a state located in the Midwestern United States. Cities in Ohio are municipalities whose population is no less than 5,000; smaller municipalities are called villages. Nonresident college students and incarcerated inmates do not count towards the city requirement of 5,000 residents. [1]