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13 unusual facts about Stark County


Charles F. Manderson

He resumed the practice of law in Canton and was twice elected attorney of Stark County, Ohio.

Ferdinand A. Brader

From drawings that survive it is known that Brader's Ohio pictures were done in 9 different adjoining counties: Portage, Medina, Wayne, Stark, Summit, Carroll, Columbiana, Mahoning and Tuscarawas continuing through 1895.

George H. Clark

Beginning in 1917, Clark managed the Selective Service Board for the northern district of Stark County during World War I.

H. Ross Ake

He is buried at the cemetery in Mapleton, Ohio.

H. Ross Ake was born September 22, 1878 on a farm in Osnaburg Township, Stark County, Ohio.

Joseph A. Rochford

Founded in 1989 by the Timken, Hoover, Deuble, and Stark Community Foundations, the mission of the partnership is to mobilize private sector resources to help Stark County’s districts and schools build the capacity to initiate and sustain changes resulting in high student achievement.

Lyman U. Humphrey

Humphrey was born in New Baltimore, Ohio to Lyman and Elizabeth (Everhart) Humphrey, one of two sons born to the couple.

Stark County

Starke County, Indiana, although spelled slightly differently, is also named for Revolutionary War General John Stark, the same origin as Stark County in other states.

Stark County, Illinois

He became widely known as the "Hero of Bennington" for his exemplary service at the Battle of Bennington in 1777.

Stark County, Ohio

Two relatively large football stadiums, Fawcett Stadium in Canton and Paul Brown Tiger Stadium in Massillon, are still in use (albeit now mostly for high school football), with Fawcett Stadium hosting the NFL's annual Pro Football Hall of Fame Game each year.

The rivalry between the Massillon Tigers and Canton Bulldogs helped bring the Ohio League to prominence in the mid-1900s (decade) and again in the late 1910s.

Tuslaw High School

Tuslaw High School is a public high school located in Tuscarawas Township, Ohio near the city of Massillon and serves all high school students in the Tuslaw Local School district.

WIVM-LD

WIVM-LD (channel 39) in Canton, Ohio, WIVN-LD (channel 29) and WIVD-LD (channel 22) in Newcomerstown, and WIVX-LD (channel 51) in Loudonville, Ohio are low power television stations serving Stark and Tuscarawas counties in Ohio, and nearby counties and communities.


Akron, Ohio, metropolitan statistical area

When the trail is fully complete, it will stretch about 100 miles from Downtown Cleveland in Cuyahoga County, though the Cuyahoga Valley National Park and Summit County, Stark County and end in New Philadelphia in Tuscarawas County.