Businesses – Page 3

Liberty Steel Co.

2020-05-22

Submitted by Richard K. Fleischer Liberty Steel Co. est. May 6, 1918 – Located on Martin Luther King Blvd. (formerly Euclid Ave.) Was built as a tin mill, making tin sheet, a supplier of tin for the government in WWI, and for the Standard Oil…

Halladay Motor Car Company

2020-05-22

Submitted by Richard K. Fleischer Halladay Motor Car Co. Est. at Anderson, Ind. In 1902 – Moved to Warren, Oh. 1917 – located on Euclid Ave. (now Martin Luther King Blvd.) across from the Liberty Steel Co. The site is an empty field today…

Thomas Steel Strip (Division of Tata Steel)

2020-05-22

Submitted by Richard K. Fleischer This company was founded in 1924 by Clinton Thomas in 1924, on the site previously occupied by the McMyler Mfg. Co. Mr. Thomas was a part of a family well known in the Niles,Oh. for being in the iron…

Van Huffel Tube Co.

2020-05-22

Submitted by Richard K. Fleischer Van Huffel Tube Co. - est. 1910 – Was originally located in Mishawaka, Indiana. Isadore Van Huffel was the president of the company. Company moved to Warren in 1924, occupying the old King Furniture buildings on Niles Rd. for…

Trumbull Manufacturing Co.

2020-05-22

Submitted by Richard K. Fleischer The Trumbull Manufacturing Co. est. 1850 – 333 S. Park Ave. (originally known as the Warren Machine Works). Had been several companies through the years, but we know it as Trumbull Mfg. Co. During the days of the P&O Canal,…

Warren City Tank & Boiler Co. (& General American Transportation Co.)

2020-05-22

Submitted by Richard K. Fleischer Warren City Tank & Boiler Co. On Griswold St. N.E. This company was formed in 1893 by Alfred Hughes. The company started out doing repair work on boilers and started with a crew of 25 employees. Soon after, this company…

Mullins Manufacturing

2020-05-22

Submitted by Richard K. Fleischer The company started out as the Youngstown Pressed Steel Co. in 1917. By 1920 the plant employed 400 people and was a subsidiary of the Sharon Steel Corp. This company was known for its large presses and made metal stampings…

Waddell Park

2020-05-22

Submitted by Thelma Snyder, Niles Historical Society In July 1929 Jacob D. Waddell presented the city with 52 acres of land for a municipal park located just outside the city limits between Park and Warren Avenues and on both sides of Lovers Lane. Plans to…

Luxaire Cushion Company

2020-05-22

Submitted by Richard K. Fleischer This building started out as the Akron Maderight Tire & Rubber Works in 1920. The name of the company was changed to the Trumbull Tire and Rubber Works. The company was out of business by 1921. The building was foreclosed…

Newton Steel Company

2020-05-22

Submitted by Richard K. Fleischer The Newton Steel Co. of Newton Falls, Oh. was not a basic steel mill. It was a rolling mill that rolled steel into sheets, mostly for the auto industry. Founded in 1919, In 1922 six additional mills were installed for…

Pennsylvania & Ohio Canal, The (1827-1875)

2020-05-22

Submitted by Andrew Olson Although, in 1823, the State of Ohio commissioned a survey for an eighty-three mile canal route from Akron OH to Mahoningtown (New Castle) PA that would open as the Pennsylvania and Ohio Canal (P&O) in 1840, concerns about funding a project…

Trumbull County Wooden Works Clock Makers

2020-05-22

Submitted by Richard K. Fleischer One of the very first manufacturing enterprises in Trumbull County was the manufacture of tall clocks. At one time or another there were about 13 manufacturers of these clocks in Trumbull County. Most of this manufacturing took place in…