11
Apr
The 1848 Fire : Public Square Burns the First Time
stored in: History and tagged: H.G. Blake, Medina OH, Medina Public Square, The Fire of 1848, The Phoenix Store

The story goes like this:  On the evening of April 11, 1848, two young men — drifters, probably — were playing cards in the back room of Barney Prentiss’s shoe store.  One of them blew out a candle and tossed it into a pile of trash in the corner. But he was careless — the [...]

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