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Leetonia, OH - History


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Welcome to the Leetonia Home page. The Leetonia Home page provides as much information as possible on Leetonia. Knowing Leetonia’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Leetonia’s Home page, you will also find Leetonia’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.

Leetonia has a population of 2151. 52.2% of Leetonia’s inhabitants are Male, and 47.8 are female. 45.6% of Leetonia is married and 81.7% own their own home. The Average Home price is $81,782, and the average rent is $803. Household median income in Leetonia is $58,750, and the individual median income is $28,125. Leetonia’s Ethnic is the following: White(97.7%), Multiple(1.2%), Hispanic(0.7%), Other(0.7%), Asian(0.2%), Native(0.1%).


Leetonia is home to one of the few remaining bee hive coke oven sites in America. In the early 1860s, Irish businessman William Lee discovered rich deposits of coal, ore and lime under the soil of today's Leetonia. Lee began to buy the surrounding land and established the company "The Leetonia Coal & Iron Company" which consisted of a coal mine, coke ovens, and a blast furnace.


This company jumped into the iron and coal industry and soon turned the area into a thriving company town. The area went from housing three families in 1864 to 1,800 people by 1869 when it was incorporated. The coke production was the main operation of the company. Leetonia Coal & Iron would mine the surrounding areas for coal and then cart coal by the tons into the coke ovens on rails above the ovens.


The workers would then shovel the coal into the coke ovens to cook. This would purify the coal into a purer product of coal called coke which was then shipped off to the iron mills to be used in smelting iron. Coke has a much higher temperature point than regular coal so it was preferred for use in the mills.Each coke oven is about 12 feet in diameter and 6 to 7 feet in height with the capacity to hold two to three tons of coal each.


While still using 100 ovens, Leetonia Coal & Iron would process 250 tons of coal into coke per day. However, in 1873, the company was bought out and renamed "The Cherry Valley Iron and Coal Company", who expanded operations and eventually had over 200 coke ovens and 4 blast furnaces; processing much more coal than ever before.


Financial troubles hit the company during the Great Depression and the ovens were closed permanently.The site was donated to the village of Leetonia for a park in 1982, and, in 1986, the village council appointed a commission to transform the area into a park.


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