The company incorporated in 1887 as the The Massillon Bridge Company.

The Massillon Bridge Company designed and built steel truss bridges up through the mid 1900s, many of which stand today.

* Joseph Davenport, founder of the Massillon Bridge Company, inventor of the locomotive cab and cow catcher.

Companies like the Massillon Bridge Company of Massillon, Ohio and the King Bridge Company of Cleveland, Ohio became well-known companies, as they marketed their designs to different cities and townships.

The Forest City Motor Company was founded in Cleveland, Ohio in 1906 but relocated to Massillon during that same year.

Although steel making and fabrication is found throughout its history, some say Massillon's steel age didn't start until 1909 when the first sheet of steel was rolled at the Massillon Rolling Mill Company.

Massillon Rolling merged into the Central Steel Company in 1914, and lit its first open hearth furnace in 1915.

Stanley Macomber designed the open-web steel joist in 1921 while working for Massillon ’ s Central Steel Company.

The newly named Republic Steel Corporation was headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio, and became America's third largest steel company, trailing only U. S. Steel and Bethlehem Steel after acquiring Bourne-Fuller Steel and the Central Alloy Steel Company ( located in Massillon, Ohio ) in the 1930s.

Brown, who had built an impressive record as coach of a Massillon, Ohio high school team and brought the Buckeyes their first national championship, at the time was serving in the U. S. Navy and coached the football team at Great Lakes Naval Station near Chicago.

It also was a nod to Paul Brown's Massillon, Ohio roots where he coached the high school team known as the Tigers.

According to Robert W. Peterson in his book Pigskin The Early Years of Pro Football, the " passer was George W. ( Peggy ) Parratt, probably the best quarterback of the era ", who played for the Massillon, Ohio Tigers, one of pro football's first franchises.

Before signing him Canton was averaging 1, 200 fans a game, but 8, 000 showed up for his debut against the Massillon Tigers.

The canal section spanning from Cleveland to Massillon was completed in 1828.

It was then named the Massillon Psychiatric Center an serves approximately 300 patients.

In 1930, Central Steel was purchased by the Cleveland based Republic Steel, along with Central Steel's other Massillon divisions including Massillon Union Drawn Steel and its stainless steel division Enduro Stainless.

Massillon's steel era came to an end in 1984 when Republic Steel was purchased by LTV Steel and most of the Massillon operations were sold or shuttered.

His open-web steel joist, patented in 1924, was known as the Massillon Steel Joist.

Lincoln Highway, the first US highway to run from coast to coast, was completed in 1913 and followed Main Street through the center of Massillon.

The old Lincoln Highway that runs through Massillon and Canton was reassigned as State Route 172.

The Massillon Museum was established in 1933 in order to preserve the city's rich history.

LKF-The unincorporated town of Massillon, Iowa was named after the city in 1854.

Massillon was a site where one of the most tragic instances of anti-union violence in the history of the United States occurred.

A historical marker was erected in 2004 in front of the Massillon City Hall in memory of the Little Steel Strike of 1937.

Jacob S. Coxey, Sr. sometimes known as General Coxey ( April 16, 1854 – May 18, 1951 ) of Massillon, Ohio, was an American politician, who ran for elective office several times in Ohio.

Jacob Coxey was elected Mayor of Massillon in 1931.

While the first players known to be paid to play football are believed to have played for club teams in the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania area, perhaps the first great professional football rivalry was between the Massillon Tigers and Canton Bulldogs from 1903 to 1906 and 1915 to 1919.

A look inside the Paul L. David Athletic Center located next to Paul Brown Tiger StadiumThe construction of Paul Brown Tiger Stadium in Massillon was completed in 1939 through the Works Progress Administration program.

Tiger Swing Band performing during halftimeThe Massillon Tiger Swing Band was created by the legendary George " Red " Bird in 1938 during the Paul Brown era of Massillon football.

Macomber left Central Steel and founded the Massillon Steel Joist Co. in 1923.

However, possibly as an insult to Art Modell, or possibly as an homage to his own start as a head coach to the Massillon Tigers, Paul Brown chose the exact shade of orange used by his former team.

This system extends into Stark County but is not shared by the cities of Massillon, East Canton or North Canton, which have their own internal address grids.

Republic Steel became the third largest steel company in the world, with its Massillon operations employing nearly one-half of the city's workforce by 1959.

Most of the pieces were hand-carved by Dr. Robert Immel of Massillon using tools from his dental practice.

Massillon is served by the following state and federal highways:

Massillon enjoyed in the 18th century a reputation equal to that of Bossuet and of Bourdaloue, and has been much praised for his eloquence by Voltaire, D ' Alembert and kindred spirits among the Encyclopaedists.

Due to the money that was being spent by Canton and Massillon on professional players, both teams ended up with a spending deficit that had to be shouldered by local businessmen.

O ' Donnell, also the owner of a semi-pro baseball team called the Tigers, was aided in his football venture by Stan Cofall, a football star at Notre Dame from 1914 to 1916, and with the Massillon Tigers.

But Canton, which had already won the " Ohio League " championship by defeating their arch-rivals, the Massillon Tigers, turned down the offer.

The Massillon 1940 squad is still regarded by historians as one of the best in the history of state high school football.

Captivated by the eloquence of Massillon, in his fifteenth year he entered the Oratory with the view of becoming a preacher but after two year's residence he changed his intention, and, inheriting a position which secured him access to the most select society of Paris, he achieved distinction at an early period by his gay, witty and graceful manners.

It is replete with judicious instruction ; it recommends that preaching should be preceded by prayer ; it says that it is more important to preach about morals than on faith, that for moral sermons the human heart must be studied, and that the best way of doing so is ( as Massillon recommended in later times ) to look into one's own.

In 1958, Warfield ran for 810 yards and scored 15 touchdowns-a campaign highlighted by a 6-0 victory over the powerhouse Massillon Tigers.

The team's three losses all came against Canton's chief rivals, a Massillon Washington High School team led by coach Paul Brown.

Due to poor attendance, the team was moved by UHL commissioner Richard Brosal to Massillon Ohio after a new 6500 seat arena was to be built.