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Several furnaces were built along the creek during the first decade of the 1800s and all ceased to exist after The War of 1812 began.
The land on the Yellow Creek would lay dormant for more than 50 years until 1865 when Thomas Struthers, son of John Struthers, bought back the land his father had lost following the War of 1812.
Thomas Struthers laid out the village that year and gave it his family's name.
An excerpt from a 1948 Cradle of Steel Homecoming program illustrates what happened next:
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