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Fall of the House of McKinley 2…

23 Thursday Jun 2022

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McKinley Home as it Sat in Meyer Park

Many years ago I posed the question to my father-in-law who is a long-time Canton resident how President McKinley‘s home was destroyed. He did not know the answer, but the question remained in the back of my mind for years. When I began as a volunteer at the McKinley Presidential Library in 2003, the question resurfaced and I began to gather information on the house itself, who live there through the years, and what happened that the city of Canton did not save the house. Initially I wrote my findings and they were put on a safe place on the library shelf.
Time passes, and one grows old with that passage. Mark Holland, Archivist encouraged me to take another look at what I had written with the idea of expanding it into a book which could be published. We also have the idea that we would form a group of interested local historians to help brainstorm and research. The book and the group began in the summer of 2020.
No one expected COVID…And that made our forward progress crawl at times.
Now the book is at the halfway point. It tells the story from the beginning of Canton, through the building of the house at 723 North Market Avenue. It shares stories of the various owners, and will tell what finally happened to the only home President McKinley ever owned. The group of historians continues to grow and is an exciting adventure—expanding to explore other Canton families and buildings.
Hope to have the finished product soon,
Judy Pocock
Author
The Fall of the House of Mckinley

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Bicentennial Celebration, Groovy Director…

28 Monday Jun 2021

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Thank you to Gary Brown for his very interesting Monday After article: Remembering 1976 and the Bicentennial in Stark County! The article that appears in today’s Repository features longtime volunteer at the McKinley Presidential Library & Museum, Tom Haas when he was the Director of the Canton American Revolution Bicentennial Commission. He went on to take the position of Education Director at the Stark County History Center before later going on to a longtime career at WHBC Studios. Tom is in his 7th year of being a volunteer researcher in the Ramsayer Research Library. Thank you Tom for your hard work and dedication to our community.

Preserve Your Now: Bury A Time Capsule…

27 Wednesday Jan 2021

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365 Reasons: Today let me give you a reason to bury a time capsule. When I first met my wife when I was 19 years old, she had a neighbor lady who finally died when she was 103 years old, oh the stories she had to tell. She told me about attending President William McKinley’s funeral in Canton Ohio. I wish she had buried a time-capsule and I could dig it up today. Why not preserve your now, which will become history for a future generation. Choose carefully what you include in your capsule, you want it to accurately represent your snapshot in time. Can you imagine what your great-grandchildren might think about today’s newspaper or CD or current best selling book? Go ahead, think beyond yourself, and invest into the future.

By Art Snow, Canton Native

Treaty of Greenville…

18 Monday Jan 2021

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In 2011 a boy named Zane visited our museum with his class. On his history tour he viewed a mural we have in our Stark County Story called The Treaty of Greenville “The Signing” by Ohioan Howard Chandler Christy. Zane went back to his school and created this one of a kind work based on our copy of this famous piece.

Then & Now Stark Dry Goods “Stark’s”…

23 Wednesday Dec 2020

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A little Then & Now on this Wednesday Evening…Then Stark Dry Goods, “Stark’s” on the North East corner East Tuscarawas Street & Piedmont Avenue. Now, KeyBank offices on the North East corner East Tuscarawas Street & Piedmont Avenue.

Then & Now Kobacker’s Department Store…

02 Wednesday Dec 2020

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Archives Bring Good Feelings, Bus, Canton, Children, Christmas, Department Store, Fifth Street, Holiday, Kobackers, Market Avenue, Memories, Music, Nostalgia, ohio, Sales, Santa Claus, Snow, Stark County, Widow Shopping, Window Display, winter, Wonder

Then Kobacker’s Department Store 1955 North West Corner of Market Avenue North & 5th Street NW. Now a Parking Lot at Market Avenue North & 5th Street NW.

Tales from the Negatives: Get Technical…

11 Saturday Jul 2020

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In February of this year Archivist, Mark Holland discovered a clue that solved a 48 year old mystery. See how this happened and get to know a little bit about two Stark County Photographers…

Then & Now Main Circus…

01 Wednesday Jul 2020

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A Little Then & Now on this sunny Wednesday afternoon! Then, a Circus coming to town Public Square Canton, Ohio Saturday May 7, 1904. Now, Central Plaza in downtown Canton. 

Mercy Hospital Story Part II 1911 Building through the Market Avenue Wing…

12 Sunday Apr 2020

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Mark Holland, Archivist of the McKinley Presidential Library & Museum, helps to express as a museum our support to the people in the medical world who are fighting CoVid 19, and treating the patients as well as the disease. Today we present to you Part II in a series on Mercy Hospital. We want to show you the origins of our local medical institutions and personnel.

Mercy Hospital Part I McKinley House through the 1911 Building…

06 Monday Apr 2020

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Mark Holland, Archivist at the McKinley Presidential Library & Museum, helps to express as a museum our support to the people in the medical world who are fighting CoVid 19, and treating the patients as well as the disease. Today we present to you Part I in a series on Mercy Hospital. We want to show you the origins of our local medical institutions and personnel.

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