Editing Utica, Ohio (section)

==History==
Utica was [[plat]]ted in 1815.<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=152|year=1958|publisher=Atlantic Press|location=Akron, OH|page=136}}</ref>  The village was named after [[Utica, New York]].<ref>{{cite book|last1=Mangus|first1=Michael|last2=Herman|first2=Jennifer L.|title=Ohio Encyclopedia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bndxn4Qlt4EC&pg=PA561|year=2008|publisher=North American Book Dist LLC|isbn=978-1-878592-68-2|page=561}}</ref>

Utica was the largest hand blown window glass factory city in the US at the turn of the 20th century due to natural occurring silica and natural gas. The glass would be gathered in a molten ball and blown into a long tube. The ends would be cut off, the tube re-heated, cut, and laid flat creating the window glass. The glass companies closed with the [[Wall Street Crash of 1929|1929 crash]] and development of new glass.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Harp|first=Clint|date=2021|title=Restoration Road, Ohio Grist Mill|work=Magnolia Network|url=https://g.co/kgs/QGrhLC}}{{dead link|date=July 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref>

Prior to the Civil War, Utica was an important stop on the [[Underground Railroad]]. However, some local residents and a village historian claim that Utica was later a [[sundown town]] and recall [[Ku Klux Klan]] activity in the area in the 1920s.<ref>{{cite news|title='Sundown towns': Midwest confronts its complicated racial legacy|first=Jack|last=Schuler|work=[[The Christian Science Monitor]]|location=Boston|date=March 27, 2017|accessdate=April 22, 2021|url=https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2017/0327/Sundown-towns-Midwest-confronts-its-complicated-racial-legacy}}</ref>