Editing Toronto, Ohio (section)

==History==
[[File:Toronto, Ohio 1899. LOC gm71005371.jpg|thumb|left|An 1899 bird's-eye view of Toronto]]
The area was first settled in the 19th century, when it was known as Newburg's Landing. When the railway was built, however, the area's name was changed to Sloanes Station.<ref>{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_5doyAQAAMAAJ | title=20th Century History of Steubenville and Jefferson County, Ohio and Representative Citizens | publisher=Richmond-Arnold Publishing Company | author=Doyle, Joseph Beatty | year=1910 | pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_5doyAQAAMAAJ/page/n428 446]}}</ref> In 1881, after a vote, the town was incorporated under its present name inspired by [[Toronto|Toronto, Canada]], which civic leader Thomas M. Daniels felt was a place worth emulating. Along with its Canadian counterpart, it is one of only two incorporated cities in the world named Toronto.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://spacing.ca/toronto/2012/11/02/a-visit-to-toronto-ohio/|title = The other T.O.: A visit to Toronto, Ohio|date = November 2, 2012}}</ref>

In the 20th century, the town became a center of heavy industry with a number of large factories in and around the town. In the 1980s and 1990s the city, along with the rest of the region, declined sharply as manufacturing jobs left. [[Titanium Metals Corporation]], the world's largest supplier of titanium metals, is the major employer in the city.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Engineers |first=American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_-IJAQAAIAAJ&dq=titanium+metals+corporation+toronto+oh+major+employer&pg=PA874 |title=Industrial Minerals and Rocks: (nonmetallics Other Than Fuels) |date=1960 |publisher=American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers |language=en}}</ref>