Meet the theaters, potters, travelers and surveyors whose stories live along these streets and nearby trails. Read each story here, examine its photograph and find its documented location.
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A former church became a place for vaudeville and early movies, remembered by a marker near the Diamond.
Market Street at Fifth Street
Mike Wintermantel · photographed July 3, 2011 · Historical Marker Database
A vanished playhouse brought touring performers, graduations and movies into the pottery city’s daily life.
East Fourth Street near Market Street
Mike Wintermantel · photographed July 3, 2011 · Historical Marker Database
McKinley, Strand and State: one theater’s changing names trace the transition from vaudeville to the movie-house era.
St. Clair Avenue just north of Sixth Street
Mike Wintermantel · photographed July 3, 2011 · Historical Marker Database
A historic hotel connects the city’s pottery trade, visiting performers and long-distance travel.
East Fourth Street near Market Street
Mike Wintermantel · photographed July 3, 2011 · Historical Marker Database
East Liverpool’s streets were part of a coast-to-coast travel story that changed as road routes and bridges evolved.
Broadway near East Fifth Street
Mike Wintermantel · photographed July 3, 2011 · Historical Marker Database
A riverfront marker links local clay, transportation and skilled potters to East Liverpool’s defining industry.
Broadway Wharf, reached from Walnut Street
Mike Wintermantel · photographed November 20, 2011 · Historical Marker Database
A restored canal lock makes the mechanics of moving freight through the creek valley visible.
Beaver Creek State Park, near Gaston’s Mill off Echo Dell Road
Dale K. Benington · photographed July 15, 2011 · Historical Marker Database
A marker at City Hall remembers the home of pottery industrialist John N. Taylor.
City Hall entrance near Sixth Street
Devry Becker Jones (CC0) · photographed September 10, 2020 · Historical Marker Database
A former residence and funeral home became a local setting for the national story of Pretty Boy Floyd.
Peach Avenue at West Fifth Street
Devry Becker Jones (CC0) · photographed September 10, 2020 · Historical Marker Database
A library built for public access became one of the city’s most important keepers of local memory.
219 East Fourth Street
Mike Wintermantel · photographed July 3, 2011 · Historical Marker Database
The riverfront tells a story of arrivals, freight and the people who shaped the pottery city.
Broadway Wharf, reached from Walnut Street
Mike Wintermantel · photographed November 20, 2011 · Historical Marker Database
A roadside marker explains the federal survey system whose first baseline began near East Liverpool.
Harvey Avenue / Ohio Route 39, at the Ohio–Pennsylvania border
Mike Wintermantel · photographed July 3, 2011 · Historical Marker DatabaseOpen the complete marker guide → · Follow the Heritage Trail →