Editing Massillon, Ohio (section)

===Museums===
[[File:Massillonmuseum.jpg|thumb|right|Massillon Museum]]
The Massillon Museum was established in 1933 in order to preserve the city's rich history.<ref name=timeline /> The museum was accredited in 1972 by the [[American Alliance of Museums]] and is currently located downtown in the historic Gensemer Brothers Dry Goods building.<ref name=HistoryMuseum>{{cite web|title=History of the Museum|url=http://www.massillonmuseum.org/research_historyofmassmu.html|publisher=Massillon Museum|access-date=November 30, 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120404003506/http://www.massillonmuseum.org/research_historyofmassmu.html|archive-date=April 4, 2012}}</ref> The museum's collection encompasses approximately 100,000 objects<ref name=aboutlibrary>{{cite web|title=About the Library & Archives|url=http://www.massillonmuseum.org/research_aboutarchiveslibrary.html|publisher=Massillon Museum|access-date=November 30, 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120303092112/http://massillonmuseum.org/research_aboutarchiveslibrary.html|archive-date=March 3, 2012}}</ref>  in 94 categories, 60,000 photographs, and 18,000 archival and reference documents. The Immel Circus is one of the museum's most interesting collections. The 100-square foot miniature circus contains 2,620 pieces: thirty-six elephants, 186 horses, 102 assorted animals, ninety-one wagons, seven tents, and 2,207 people. Most of the pieces were hand-carved by Dr. Robert Immel of Massillon using tools from his dental practice.<ref name=immel>{{cite web|last=Pond|first=Mandy Altimus|title=Immel Circus|url=http://www.massillonmuseum.org/46|publisher=Massillon Museum|access-date=November 30, 2012}}</ref>

[[Spring Hill Historic Home (Massillon, OH)|Spring Hill Historic Home]] is the home of Thomas and Charity Rotch, the founders of [[Kendal, Ohio]] (the precursor to Massillon). In 1973, the home of the Rotch-Wales families was turned into a historic home and opened to the public. Today, they focus on the Underground Railroad work that Thomas and Charity did while living in the house. The house is a member of the Ohio Friends of Freedom Society, and became a site on the National Park Service's Network to Freedom in 2006. Perhaps one of the most exciting parts of their Underground Railroad history is a letter written by George Duncan, a freedom seeker who was still on the run, to Thomas and Charity. George trusted the Rotches to help reunite him with his companion Edy, who was waiting for safer passage before escaping herself. George's letter is one of only a few written by a formerly enslaved person while they were still on the run.<ref>{{cite web|title=Spring Hill :: History|url=https://www.springhillhistorichome.org/history/}}</ref>

The Ohio Military Museum is operated by the Ohio Society Of Military History and is home to thousands of artifacts and tributes to the men and women of Ohio who served in the armed forces. The museum moved to the MAPS Air Museum in 2016.{{When|date=July 2016}}