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Marker #16-48 Birmingham - Ironville

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"Tony Packo's made famous by Jamie Farr on the television show M.A.S.H." uploaded by pjk
 
Name User Date
Entering Birmingham on Front St. at I-280 pjk 09-19-2007
Tony Packo's made famous by Jamie Farr on the television show M.A.S.H. pjk 09-19-2007
Looking east down Consaul Street with Tony Packo's on the left, and St. Stephen's Church on the right. pjk 09-19-2007
Artwork in front of a fire station across Front St. near Tony Packo's pjk 09-19-2007
Consaul Street pjk 09-19-2007
St. Stephen's Church and School pjk 09-19-2007
in front of St. Stephen's Church pjk 09-19-2007
St. Stephen's Church pjk 09-19-2007
The Marker is at the far left of the photo. It is on the lawn of the Toledo-Lucas County Library, Birmingham Branch. pjk 09-19-2007
The Marker at the corner of Paine St. and Genesee St. pjk 09-19-2007
A painting in the library pjk 09-19-2007
What the painting in the library is trying to to tell the viewer. pjk 09-19-2007
Hungarian noodles are made here pjk 09-19-2007
The Hungarian Club on Paine St. pjk 09-19-2007
The Calvin United Church of Christ pjk 09-19-2007
Hungarian still spoken in the Church. pjk 09-19-2007
Takacs Market is still is business pjk 09-19-2007
Walking home from school pjk 09-19-2007
Typical houses in the neighborhood. pjk 09-19-2007
Houses with Nabisco Mills on Front St. and Maumee River in the background. pjk 09-19-2007
While Birmingham is still a viable community, Ironville's 200 plus homes were razed in the 1960's for an urban renewal project that never happened. pjk 09-19-2007
One of the few buildings left in Ironville. The old neighborhood called Ironville can be found at the northern end of Front St., at Millard Ave. pjk 09-19-2007
Front Text : "Birmingham - Ironville"
The Birmingham and Ironville neighborhoods were so named because of their early iron industries located along Front Street and the Maumee River. This became Toledo's first area of heavy industrial development with iron manufacturing, coal shipping, oil refining, shipbuilding, and flour milling operations. In 1864 the Manhattan Iron Company built a charcoal blast furnace near the river's mouth, securing fuel from nearby forests.

Back Text : "Birmingham - Ironville"
The neighborhood adjoining the site became known as Ironville and is now part of the Toledo-Lucas County Port Authority site. In 1890 the National Malleable Casting Company sponsored nearly a hundred Hungarian families to move to East Toledo. These immigrants formed the core of the Birmingham neighborhood which continues to retain its strong ethnic heritage and cultural pride.

Latitude / Longitude
Unknown

Address

Toledo, OH 43624
Lucas County

Location Directions
Front Street and Maumee River

Keywords
Hungarian Americans, Iron Industry, Neighborhoods

Categories
Ethnic Heritage, Industry

Sponsor(s)
St. Charles Hospital, Toledo Sesquicentennial Commission, and The Ohio Historical Society

Year
1987