Editing Minerva, Ohio (section)

==History==
The village of Minerva began when a surveyor named John Whitacre purchased 125 acres of land from Isaac Craig in 1818 for the construction of a log mill. The town, named for his niece, Minerva Ann Taylor born April 19, 1828, grew up around the mill. She was born in a log house that still stands to this day, on which it is noted that she was born in 1828. Minerva's first schoolhouse was built in 1846. In its early years the [[Sandy and Beaver Canal]] helped drive Minerva's economy, to be replaced in importance by the [[Pennsylvania Railroad]] in the 1840s. Minerva manufacturers Willard and Isaac Pennock patented the United States' first steel railroad car in the nineteenth century.<ref>Village of Minerva (2010).  "Our History."  Accessed October 1, 2010.  {{cite web |url=http://ci.minerva.oh.us/ |title=Village of Minerva - Home Page |access-date=December 20, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090113183357/http://ci.minerva.oh.us/ |archive-date=January 13, 2009 }}</ref>

In 1915, the town's weekly newspaper, ''The Minerva News'', charged one dollar for an annual subscription.<ref>{{Cite book
| publisher = Wilmer Atkinson Co
| title = The farm journal rural directory of Stark County
| location = Philadelphia
| page = 356
| access-date = November 11, 2013
| year = 1915
| url = https://archive.org/stream/farmjournalrural00unse#page/318/mode/2up
}}</ref>