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trivia time: ironton, coal grove IRONTON: • Briggs Library opened Oct. 29, 1883. • P.T. Barnum’s first visit brought a circus crowd of 10,000 to town. • First electric lights were turned on Dec. 21, 1889. • The first mail delivery was made Nov. 1, 1890. • In 1894, the city council passes an ordinance making it “unlawful for any bicycler to ride a wheel in Ironton that does not carry a bell or other alarm, and this alarm must be sounded whenever the wheel will pass within 10 feet of a pedestrian.” • In 1909, voters approved the closing of the town’s saloons. They reopened by the
vote of the people in 1911. • The Ironton Coke Plant was built in 1912. • The Tanks football team was organized in 1919. The team won 86 of 119 games scheduled in 12 seasons. • The Ironton-Russell Bridge opened in 1922. • General Hospital dedicated in 1936. • Work begins on floodwall in 1938. It was dedicated in 1943. It cost $4 million dollars, $3.5 million of which was paid by the state. • The Vesuvius Recreation Area was completed in 1940. • The Ro-Na Theatre and Restaurant was established in 1949.
coal grove: • Coal Grove was first settled by the Jonathan Melvin family in 1803. • The Village of Coal Grove was named so by river workers after a coaling station about 200 yards west of the Ashland Bridge, as well as a grove of trees near the stations. • A post office was established in about 1830. • Zoar Baptist Church was the community’s first church, built in 1843 on the bank of Ice Creek. It was later moved in 1896 to its present location. • A passenger ferry, called “Winona,” was started in 1849, and ran between Ashland and Coal Grove.
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