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Apr
stored in: History and tagged: 1870 Fire, Fire Fighting equipment, H.G. Blake, Medina OH, Medina Public Square, Phoenix Bank
Twenty two years after the 1848 fire, the unthinkable happened.
On the night of April 14th, 1870, according the the “1881 History of Medina County and Ohio”, “The alarm sounded…calling the people unceremoniously from their virtuous couches and in a few short hours, almost the entire business district of Medina was in ashes, much of it [...]

