Margy Vogt will lead a public walking tour of Massillon’s historic Fourth Street on Sunday, May 20, at 2:00 p.m—the first public Fourth Street tour of 2012. The leisurely stroll, which includes stories about former residents and exterior architectural highlights of the town’s grandest old neighborhood, will take about two hours. Fourth Street is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The houses on Fourth Street, which span more than a century of architectural excellence from the 1830s to the 1930s, were home to Massillon’s entrepreneurs and bankers, to prominent famil...
Take a leisurely stroll through Massillon Cemetery at 2:00 p.m. on Saturday, May 19, to learn about the history of the community and some of the influential people buried there. On this first-time tour, local historian Margy Vogt will lead visitors around the perimeter of the grounds to see the exteriors of mausoleums. She will tell about the prominent families buried in the beautiful vaults. Among the notable people will be women’s rights leader Caroline McCullough Everhard; industrialists J.F. Hess and F.H. Snyder; Congressman John G. Warwick; iron and coal magnate J.P. Burton; Albert...
