Middletown: Steel, Paper, and Butler County's Industrial Core
Middletown sits about halfway between Cincinnati and Dayton, a location that gave the city its name when it was platted in 1802. The Great Miami River runs through the community, and the Miami and Erie Canal opened a commercial route through Middletown in 1827 that tied it into the broader Ohio economy. Armco Steel, later AK Steel and now a subsidiary of Cleveland-Cliffs, built a steelworks here in 1900 that still operates as a major integrated steel mill.
Paper manufacturing grew alongside the steel industry. The Gardner-Harvey Paper Company built one of the early mills on the river in 1872, and additional paperboard and folding carton production followed. Sorg Opera House, built in 1891 by paper magnate Paul J. Sorg, still operates as a performing arts venue. J.D. Vance, author of Hillbilly Elegy and Vice President of the United States, grew up in Middletown and attended Middletown High School.
Miami University's regional campus, Miami University Middletown, enrolls several thousand students on a campus at the north end of the city. The Middletown Farmers Market on Verity Parkway operates from May through October. The Robert Scott Studios, where Robert Scott designed numerous landmark homes, preserves some of the Prairie and Colonial Revival residential architecture of the city's early twentieth-century growth.
For Middletown, the Escortservice.com directory contains reviews of escort websites operating in the area. Users should understand that the site's role is cataloging; no booking service, no vetting, no intermediary work is performed. Only visitors who are at least 21 may use the directory.
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Middletown sits about halfway between Cincinnati and Dayton, a location that gave the city its name when it was platted in 1802. The Great Miami River runs through the community, and the Miami and Erie Canal opened a commercial route through Middletown in 1827 that tied it into the broader Ohio economy. Armco Steel, later AK Steel and now a subsidiary of Cleveland-Cliffs, built a steelworks here in 1900 that still operates as a major integrated steel mill.
Paper manufacturing grew alongside the steel industry. The Gardner-Harvey Paper Company built one of the early mills on the river in 1872, and additional paperboard and folding carton production followed. Sorg Opera House, built in 1891 by paper magnate Paul J. Sorg, still operates as a performing arts venue. J.D. Vance, author of Hillbilly Elegy and Vice President of the United States, grew up in Middletown and attended Middletown High School.
Miami University's regional campus, Miami University Middletown, enrolls several thousand students on a campus at the north end of the city. The Middletown Farmers Market on Verity Parkway operates from May through October. The Robert Scott Studios, where Robert Scott designed numerous landmark homes, preserves some of the Prairie and Colonial Revival residential architecture of the city's early twentieth-century growth.
For Middletown, the Escortservice.com directory contains reviews of escort websites operating in the area. Users should understand that the site's role is cataloging; no booking service, no vetting, no intermediary work is performed. Only visitors who are at least 21 may use the directory.
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