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Downtown Ironton Historic District
The Downtown Ironton Historic District is a historic district located in downtown Ironton, Ohio, Ironton, Ohio. The district is roughly bounded by Washington and Center Streets and South 2nd and South 4th Streets. The buildings in the district were constructed between the 1870s and the 1950s. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 8, 2009. A number of buildings which are individually listed on the National Register are located in the district, including the Marting Hotel, the Ironton Norfolk and Western Depot, the Brumberg Building, and the Marlow Theatre (Ironton, Ohio), Marlow Theatre. The Lawrence County Courthouse (Ohio), Lawrence County Courthouse, the county courthouse for Lawrence County, Ohio, Lawrence County, is located in the district. The district also includes historic commercial properties such as the Art Moderne-styled Unger's Shoes, the oldest shoe store in Ironton, and the Art Deco Ro'Na Theater. References

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Ironton, Ohio
Ironton is a city in and the county seat of Lawrence County, Ohio, United States. Located in southernmost Ohio along the Ohio River northwest of Huntington, West Virginia, the city includes the Downtown Ironton Historic District. The population was 11,129 at the 2010 census. Ironton is part of the Huntington-Ashland, WV-KY-OH, Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA). As of the 2010 census, the MSA had a population of 287,702. New definitions from February 28, 2013, placed the population at 363,000. Ironton is a contraction of "iron town." The city has a long history with the iron industry. It also had one of the first professional football teams. History Ironton was founded in 1849 by John Campbell, a prominent pig iron manufacturer in the area. He chose the location of Ironton because of its site along the Ohio River, which would allow for water transport of iron ore to markets downriver. Between 1850 and 1890, Ironton was one of the foremost producers of iron in the world ...
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Ohio
Ohio () is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. Of the fifty U.S. states, it is the 34th-largest by area, and with a population of nearly 11.8 million, is the seventh-most populous and tenth-most densely populated. The state's capital and largest city is Columbus, with the Columbus metro area, Greater Cincinnati, and Greater Cleveland being the largest metropolitan areas. Ohio is bordered by Lake Erie to the north, Pennsylvania to the east, West Virginia to the southeast, Kentucky to the southwest, Indiana to the west, and Michigan to the northwest. Ohio is historically known as the "Buckeye State" after its Ohio buckeye trees, and Ohioans are also known as "Buckeyes". Its state flag is the only non-rectangular flag of all the U.S. states. Ohio takes its name from the Ohio River, which in turn originated from the Seneca word ''ohiːyo'', meaning "good river", "great river", or "large creek". The state arose from the lands west of the Appalachian Mountai ...
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The Herald-Dispatch
''The Herald-Dispatch'' is a daily newspaper that serves Huntington, West Virginia, and neighboring communities in southern Ohio and eastern Kentucky. It is currently owned by HD Media Co. LLC. History ''The Herald-Dispatch'' was founded in 1909 when two Huntington newspapers, the ''Herald'' and the ''Dispatch'', merged. In 1927, the newspaper became a part of the Huntington Publishing Company, operated by Joseph Harvey Long, the owner of the ''Huntington Advertiser''. The company was operated by the Long family until 1971, when it was sold to the ''Honolulu Star Bulletin'' and then to Gannett ten months later. Its companion afternoon paper, the ''Huntington Advertiser'', ceased as a separate publication in 1979. Prior to the ''Huntington Advertiser's'' demise, the combined Sunday newspaper was referred to as the ''Herald-Advertiser'', correctly depicted in the movie '' We Are Marshall''. Today, it also publishes the ''Putnam Herald'' and the ''Lawrence Herald'', more localized e ...
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The Independent (Ashland)
''The Daily Independent'' (also known as ''The Independent Weekend Edition'' and formerly known as ''The Independent'' from 2003 to 2015) is a morning newspaper covering the city of Ashland and surrounding areas of Boyd County, Kentucky. Previously published daily, the print schedule was reduced to five days a week (Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays as a "Weekend Edition") in April 2020. It is owned by CNHI. It does not publish on Christmas day. Launched December 17, 1896 as the ''Tri-State Independent'' Col. G. F. Friel of nearby Catlettsburg, Kentucky,"A history of Ashland, Kentucky, 1786–1954." Ashland Centennial Committee. 1954. 2 January 2007. the newspaper moved to 12th Street and Greenup Avenue in Ashland in 1900 as the ''Ashland Daily Independent''; it absorbed the ''Ashland Commercial'' in the move. The first publication after the move was on December 17. The offices later relocated to 17th Street two years later, when it purchased the ''Ashland Da ...
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National Register Of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic value". A property listed in the National Register, or located within a National Register Historic District, may qualify for tax incentives derived from the total value of expenses incurred in preserving the property. The passage of the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) in 1966 established the National Register and the process for adding properties to it. Of the more than one and a half million properties on the National Register, 95,000 are listed individually. The remainder are contributing resources within historic districts. For most of its history, the National Register has been administered by the National Park Service (NPS), an agency within the U.S. Department of the Interior. Its goals are to help property owners and inte ...
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Ironton Norfolk And Western Depot
The Ironton Norfolk and Western Depot is a former train station in downtown Ironton, Ohio, United States. Constructed at the beginning of the twentieth century, it served the transportation needs of its community for more than half a century, and it has been named a historic site because of its place in local history. History Ironton and the surrounding Hanging Rock region were once among Ohio's most prominent industrial regions, due to extensive deposits of iron ore that were worked in the region's numerous charcoal-fired blast furnaces. For part of this period, land transportation in the region was served by the Scioto Valley Railroad, which enabled the Norfolk and Western Railway to gain access to the area in 1881 by purchasing the smaller railroad. By this time, industry was transitioning away from traditional iron smelting toward more modern methods of steel manufacturing, requiring the construction of improved trackside facilities in Ironton. As a result, the N&W erec ...
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Marlow Theatre (Ironton, Ohio)
Marlow Theatre may refer to: * Marlow Theatre, Bridport, Dorset, England * Marlow Theatre (Ironton, Ohio), on the National Register of Historic Places listings in Lawrence County, Ohio This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Lawrence County, Ohio. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Lawrence County, Ohio, United St ... *Marlow Theatre, Helen Historic District, Montana, United States See also * Marlowe Theatre, a 1,200-seat theatre in Canterbury, England {{disambig ...
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Lawrence County Courthouse (Ohio)
The Lawrence County Courthouse is a historic courthouse, governmental building in Ironton, Ohio, Ironton, Ohio, United States. It was designed by Richards, McCarty & Bulford and built in 1907 after the previous courthouse burned. Built in the Neoclassical architecture, Neoclassical style with a domed roof, it was expanded in 1978 by the addition of a rear annex.Marker #6-44 City of Ironton - Founded 1849
Remarkable Ohio Lawrence County was formed on December 20, 1816 from parts of Gallia County, Ohio, Gallia County and Scioto County, Ohio, Scioto County with its county seat at Burlington, Ohio, Burlington.


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County Courthouse
A courthouse or court house is a building that is home to a local court of law and often the regional county government as well, although this is not the case in some larger cities. The term is common in North America. In most other English-speaking countries, buildings which house courts of law are simply called "courts" or "court buildings". In most of continental Europe and former non-English-speaking European colonies, the equivalent term is a palace of justice ( French: ''palais de justice'', Italian: ''palazzo di giustizia'', Portuguese: ''palácio da justiça''). United States In most counties in the United States, the local trial courts conduct their business in a centrally located courthouse. The courthouse may also house other county government offices, or the courthouse may consist of a designated part of a wider county government building or complex. The courthouse is usually located in the county seat, although large metropolitan counties may have satellite or ...
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Lawrence County, Ohio
Lawrence County is the southernmost county located in the U.S. state of Ohio. As of the 2020 census, the population was 58,240. Its county seat is Ironton. The county was created in 1815 and later organized in 1817. It is named for James Lawrence, the naval officer famous for the line "do not give up the ship". Lawrence County is part of the Huntington–Ashland metropolitan area. History The earliest European-American settlers, Luke Kelly and his family, and May Keyser, settled at Hanging Rock along the Ohio River in 1796, having migrated from the east. Lawrence County was formed on December 20, 1816, from parts of Gallia and Scioto counties, with the county seat named as Burlington. In 1851 the county seat was moved from Burlington to Ironton. A new courthouse was built at that time. It burned in 1857. The present Lawrence County Courthouse was built in 1908. Men from Lawrence County served in the Mexican–American War, with at least one having died during that conflic ...
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