11
Apr
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 [...]

