START
Museum of Ceramics
Begin with the industry that gave East Liverpool its identity.
WALK THE STORY
East Liverpool Heritage Trail
A self-guided route connecting pottery, architecture, theaters, river history, markers, famous visitors and the stories that shaped the city. Start downtown, then extend the drive north toward Beaver Creek and the Pretty Boy Floyd site.
DOWNTOWN LOOP
History is packed into a few blocks.
Several East Liverpool historical markers sit within easy walking distance of one another. This route turns them into a simple visitor experience instead of a disconnected list of plaques.
ARCHITECTURE
Carnegie Public Library
1902 Carnegie architecture plus one of the strongest local-history collections in the city.
THE DIAMOND
J.C. Thompson Building + theater markers
Use the surviving streetscape and markers to reconstruct the downtown entertainment district.
1934
Sturgis House
The former funeral home where the body of Charles “Pretty Boy” Floyd was publicly viewed.
RIVER
Broadway Wharf
Finish the downtown loop on the Ohio River and connect the city's industrial geography to today.
MARKER COLLECTION
Open Pottery City Passport →Build a citywide marker passport.
Diamond Theater
Marker at Market and 5th recalling the Bijou/Diamond era of vaudeville and early film.
J.C. Thompson Building
A distinctive 1892 landmark at 6th and St. Clair.
Isaac Knowles / Knowles Block
Connects downtown streetscape to one of the principal founders of K.T. & K. Pottery.
Lincoln Highway
A reminder that East Liverpool has long been part of larger transportation stories.
Land Ordinance of 1785 / Seven Ranges
Connect East Liverpool to the beginning of federal land surveying west of Pennsylvania.
Traveler's Hotel
One of the city's surviving historic hotel buildings and another walkable downtown marker.
Ceramic Theater
Recall the city's 1,200-seat theater and the scale of downtown cultural life in the early 1900s.
Veterans memorial cluster
World War I, Korean War, Vietnam and other memorials grouped near West Sixth Street.
Trail research: marker names and locations are sourced from the Historical Marker Database and local-history material. Marker condition and access can change; use the linked records to help identify each stop.
EXTEND THE DRIVE
Downtown → Pretty Boy Floyd → Beaver Creek
The heritage route naturally continues north. The Carnegie Public Library documents the Floyd story and directions to the Sprucevale-area death site, while Beaver Creek adds canal, mill and pioneer history.