Editing Malvern, Ohio (section)

==History==
Malvern was laid out in 1834 by Rev. William Hardesty as the village of Troy. It was renamed to Malvern in 1840.<ref>{{cite book|last=Overman|first=William Daniel|title=Ohio Town Names|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015015361465;view=1up;seq=97|year=1958|publisher=Atlantic Press|location=Akron, OH|page=81}}</ref>  Home of some of the first paving bricks made in Ohio (1893), made by the Malvern Clay Company and the Canton & Malvern Fire Clay Paving Brick Company.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Blankenbeker |first=Steven D. |date=26 May 2024 |title=The Paving Brick Industry of Oho |url=https://dam.assets.ohio.gov/image/upload/ohiodnr.gov/documents/geology/OGN_1999_n3.pdf |journal=Ohio Geology |volume=1999 |issue=3 |pages=3–4}}</ref> These companies produced some 7.5 million and 9.0 million bricks per year, as in the year 1893.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Bownocker |first1=J. A |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SCweAQAAMAAJ |title=State Geologist |last2=Stout |first2=Wilber |last3=Stull |first3=R.T. |last4=McCaughey |first4=WM. J. |last5=Demorest |first5=D. J. |publisher=Legislature of Ohio |year=1923}}</ref> These bricks can be seen around Malvern today, in both buildings, foundations, and streets.