page_title: East Palestine, Ohio
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: East Palestine, Ohio / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Log Cabin Museum East Palestine, Ohio
context_page_description: East Palestine is a village in eastern Columbiana County, Ohio, United States. The population was 4,721 at the 2010 census. Located on the state's border with Pennsylvania, East Palestine is 20 miles south of Youngstown and 50 miles northwest of downtown Pittsburgh. East Palestine is located in the Salem, OH Micropolitan Statistical Area, as well as the southern part of the greater Mahoning Valley.
  East Palestine is located along the Norfolk Southern Railway, and has a freight train station. From the 1870s until the mid 1960s, East Palestine was home to a large industry in ceramics and tire manufacturing. Since then, it has relied on its close proximity to industries in the metropolitan areas of Youngstown and Pittsburgh.
context_section_description: East Palestine was founded in 1828 as Mechanicsburg, and incorporated as a village in 1875 as East Palestine. The name was changed as part of the religious nomenclature in the area, including communities such as Enon Valley and New Galilee. Palestine, Ohio was already an incorporated community. Having reached a population of 5,000, East Palestine operated as a statutory city from 1920 until 2011, when it reverted to village status due to declining population.
  By the 1920s, railroad facilities of the city consisted of the four track Pennsylvania system. Switches from the Pittsburgh, Lisbon and Western Railroad within one mile of the corporation limits connected with the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad and New York Central Railroad. The city's leading industries were the manufacture of pottery and automobile tires by the W. S. George Pottery Company and the Edwin C. McGraw Tire Company. However, factories existed that produced steel tanks, foundry work, electrical refractories, food products, electric wiring devices, wooden ventilators, fire proofing material, synthetic ice, and lumber. Around this time, East Palestine began to start an economy in orcharding, which still survives today. Large storage and preserving facilities made East Palestine the leading city for orchards in the area.
caption: Log Cabin Museum, built in the 1840s.
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