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==History== It is believed that early property owners of [[Newton Township, Trumbull County, Ohio|Newton Township]] spent time in [[Newtown, Connecticut]] before departing for the [[Ohio Country]] and that the name Newton may be a corruption of Newtown.<ref>" {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110719172246/http://www.newtonfalls.org/community/showorg.php?category=Tourist_Info&name=HistoryofNewtonFalls |date=2011-07-19 }}". ''Newton Falls Public Library''. Retrieved November 9, 2009.</ref> The village's name stems from its location on the falls on the [[Mahoning River]]. It grew in to a home of the steel manufacturing industry, as did much of the region, aided by its location along the river and the proximity of the nearby [[Ravenna Training and Logistics Site]].<ref>"[http://www.newtonfalls.org/community/showorg.php?category=Tourist_Info&name=HistoryofNewtonFalls Newton Falls & Newton Township, Ohio History] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110719172246/http://www.newtonfalls.org/community/showorg.php?category=Tourist_Info&name=HistoryofNewtonFalls |date=July 19, 2011 }}". ''Newton Falls Public Library''. Retrieved November 9, 2009.</ref> On May 31, 1985, an [[Fujita scale|F5]] [[tornado]] struck the city as part of the [[1985 United States-Canadian tornado outbreak]], a deadly series of tornadoes that swept through [[Ohio]], [[Pennsylvania]], [[New York (state)|New York]], and [[Ontario]]. The tornado that hit Newton Falls was the only F5 in Ohio that day, and damaged most of the downtown, destroying many homes and businesses,<ref>{{cite news |title=DEATH TOLL RISES TO 85 IN TORNADOES IN U.S. AND CANADA |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1985/06/02/us/death-toll-rises-to-85-in-tornadoes-in-us-and-canada.html |work=New York Times |date=June 2, 1985 |access-date=August 1, 2018|last1=Berger |first1=Joseph }}</ref> and damaging the senior and junior high schools (it destroyed the gymnasium and rendered the junior high unusable). There were between 70 and 80 injuries, and 400 families were left homeless.<ref name="LAT_1985-06-02">{{cite news|last=Green|first=Larry|title=Tornadoes Death Toll Rises to 90 Thousands in Ohio, Pennsylvania Left Homeless in Storms: [Home Edition]|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|date=June 2, 1985|id={{ProQuest|292109739}}}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.may311985tornadoes.com|title=Tornado Photos and Video|access-date=January 31, 2007}}</ref> The [[Ohio Army National Guard]] credited warning sirens for the lack of fatalities.<ref name="LAT_1985-06-02" /><ref>{{cite news|last=Unknown|title=Pennsylvania, Ohio and Canada Twisters Kill 45 Hundreds Injured, Devastation is Widespread as Single Storm System Spawns Many Tornadoes:[Home Edition]|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|date=June 1, 1985|id={{ProQuest|292150984}}}}</ref> A monument was erected in 2022 memorializing the devastation. It is situated at the corner of Broad and Center Streets. On July 6, 2012, the city was shaken by a [[Mass shootings in the United States|shooting rampage]] in the East River Gardens apartment complex. Robert Brazzon murdered four people, including a 15-year-old boy, before [[Suicide|taking his own life]] in a city cemetery.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://wkbn.com/2013/07/01/newton-falls-mass-murderer-killed-family-over-drug-theft/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180113203004/http://wkbn.com/2013/07/01/newton-falls-mass-murderer-killed-family-over-drug-theft/|archive-date=January 13, 2018|title=Newton Falls mass murderer killed family over drug theft|website=wkbn.com}}</ref>
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