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About Struthers, OH

The community's early history centers on Yellow Creek, where the cradle of steel began with the building of the Hopewell Furnace. This furnace was built in 1803 by Daniel Eaton and is mentioned in the first line of the 1995 Bruce Springsteen song " Youngstown". The Hopewell Furnace thrived for a little over ten years until John Struthers reached his financial crisis in 1812. In 1869 Struthers again became an iron-producing community with the construction of the Anna Furnace by the Struthers Iron Company. In 1880 there was added the sheet mill plant of the Summer's Brothers Co., and in 1888 the plant of the J.