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The company had difficulties through the American Civil War, and O.C.'s older brother, George H. Barber, who was a soldier, died of dysentery, one of the many war casualties of disease. By 1880 the Barber Company had become the biggest match-producing company in Ohio and one of the largest in the nation.
The Anna–Dean farm was a concept of American industrialist O.C. Barber who envisioned a superfarm on the outskirts of Barberton, and to that end he began purchasing land for the eventual 3,500-acre (14 km 2) farm as early as 1900. Construction of the farm facilities began in 1907 with a concrete poultry building but would not truly begin in ...
FIPS code. 39-03828 [5] GNIS feature ID. 1086994 [3] Website. www.cityofbarberton.com. Barberton is a city in Summit County, Ohio, United States. The population was 25,191 at the 2020 census. Located directly southwest of Akron, it is a suburb of the Akron metropolitan area.
The O. C. Barber Barn No. 1, built in 1909, is a historic farm building located on the Anna-Dean Farm in Barberton, Ohio.It was built by American businessman and industrialist Ohio Columbus Barber, the developer of both Barberton, which he envisioned as a planned industrial community, and the nearby 3,500-acre(14 km 2) Anna-Dean Farm, which he envisioned as a prototype for modern agricultural ...
An aerial photo of the Barberton Veteran's Memorial at Lake Anna Park in Barberton, Ohio. Lake Anna Park is a 21-acre (85,000 m 2) park around a spring-fed, 10-acre (40,000 m 2) lake, and is located in the center of downtown Barberton, Ohio. [1] Lake Anna was formed by natural geology, left after the last ice age.
The Battle of Columbus, Georgia (April 16, 1865), was the last conflict in the Union campaign through Alabama and Georgia, known as Wilson's Raid, in the final full month of the American Civil War. Maj. Gen. James H. Wilson had been ordered to destroy the city of Columbus as a major Confederate manufacturing center.
October 9, 1974. The O. C. Barber Machine Barn, also called the Implement House. built in 1911, is an historic farm building located on Austin Drive on the Anna-Dean Farm in Barberton, Ohio. It was built by American businessman and industrialist Ohio Columbus Barber, the developer of both Barberton, which he envisioned as a planned industrial ...
During the American Civil War, the State of Ohio played a key role in providing troops, military officers, and supplies to the Union army. Due to its central location in the Northern United States and burgeoning population, Ohio was both politically and logistically important to the war effort. Despite the state's boasting a number of very ...