City Of Youngstown history

Youngstown continued to grow and was officially incorporated in 1802.

A working, water-powered grist mill, built in 1845; view exhibits and see the 19th century mill machinery in action; gift shop includes stone-ground flour for sale, produced at the mill.

Youngstown’s village was incorporated in 1848.

After the 1855 opening of the first Sault Ste.

By the second half of the nineteenth century, Youngstown had become an important intersection of a number of major railway lines, including the Baltimore & Ohio, the Erie Lackawana, the New York Central, and the Pennsylvania Railroad. As a result of the city's growth, the Mahoning County seat was moved from Canfield to Youngstown in 1876.

Youngstown State University was first established as a night school (1908). In the city are the Butler Institute of American Art, the Youngstown Playhouse, and the DeYor Performing Arts Center, home of the Youngstown Symphony.

By 1916 the YMCA, which was also offering courses in business and engineering, incorporated all of its educational offerings as the Youngstown Association School.

The population in 1920 was 132,358 people, and Youngstown was ranked as the fiftieth largest city in the nation.

It came under state control in 1967 and changed to its present name. It became the Youngstown Institute of Technology in 1921, when it began offering liberal arts courses.

The situation went out of control in 1924, with street fights happening between the members of the clan and Irish and Italian Americans.

The institute formed the College of Arts and Sciences in 1927 and the next year changed its name to Youngstown College.

After 1928, the clan was in a sharp decline and, three years later, they sold their meeting area.

The population reached its peak in 1930 at just over 170,000 residents.

Although the "Little Steel" strike, as it became known, was not very successful in the short-term, it led to the creation of the Congress of Industrial Organizations, commonly known as the CIO. The CIO was able to force the Little Steel Companies to accept unionization in 1941.

With Kent State University and the University of Akron, it created a consortium to sponsor the Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine, which opened in 1975.