Editing Struthers, Ohio (section)

===Influence of steel===
The community's early history centers on Yellow Creek, where the cradle of steel began with the building of the Hopewell Furnace.<ref name="Beach 2008 29">{{cite book|last=Beach|first=Patricia|title=Images of America Struthers|year=2008|publisher=Arcadia Publishing|location=Chicago|pages=29}}</ref> This furnace was built in 1803 by Daniel Eaton and was mentioned in the first line of the 1995 [[Bruce Springsteen]] song "[[Youngstown (song)|Youngstown]]".<ref name="Beach 2008 29"/> The Hopewell Furnace thrived for a little over ten years until John Struthers reached his financial crisis in 1812.<ref>{{cite book|last=Beach|first=Patricia|title=Images of America Struthers|year=2008|publisher=Arcadia|location=Chicago|pages=29}}</ref>

In 1869, Struthers again became an iron-producing community with the construction of the Anna Furnace by the Struthers Iron Company.<ref>{{cite book|last=Beach|first=Patricia|title=Images of America Struthers|year=2008|publisher=Arcadia Publishing|location=Chicago|pages=37}}</ref> In 1880, the sheet mill plant of the Summer's Brothers Co. was added and in 1888, the plant of the J. A. and D. P. Cooper Gear Company was constructed.

With all these activities, Struthers still remained a village of less than 1,000 inhabitants, after 100 years had elapsed since John Struthers built his first cabin and erected the sawmill and grist mill on Yellow Creek. In 1899, Struthers was brought into closer communication with Youngstown and the upper Mahoning Valley by the completion of an interurban electric line.

In 1902, the neighboring village of East Youngstown (now Campbell) was started. This new community was started shortly after the incorporation of the Youngstown Iron Sheet and Tube Company (known as the Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co., since 1905).

With the steel industry booming in the early part of the 1900s, immigrants from throughout [[Europe]] flooded into Struthers. Still a village when it was officially incorporated in 1902, Struthers quickly became a city in 1920. The [[steel industry]] allowed the city to flourish until 1977, when several area plants closed their doors for good. The city padded the loss of thousands of jobs by using its industrial infrastructure to lure non-steel making jobs, but population losses have continued throughout the start of the new century.<ref name="YSU_Struthers">{{cite web
 |url          = http://www.ysu.edu/mahoning_river/struthers.htm
 |title        = Struthers, Ohio
 |work         = Communities Along the Mahoning River
 |publisher    = [[Youngstown State University]]
 |access-date   = October 18, 2012
 |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20121110064415/http://ysu.edu/mahoning_river/struthers.htm
 |archive-date = November 10, 2012
 |url-status     = dead
}}</ref>