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Officials discuss traffic concerns as work begins on Tractor Supply distribution center The Independent NAVARRE – While work is underway at the former Stark County Farm for a new major distribution center, local leaders are collaborating to find solutions to the increased traffic that the new business will bring to the area. Tractor Supply plans to build a more than 895,000-square-foot facility at 3001 Sterilite St. on the nearly 117-acre site of the farm, now the Prospect Park Industrial Park. County Commissioner Richard Regula said when the distribution center is up and running anywh...
JACKSON TWP. – Less than two years after Henry Timken received a patent for the tapered roller bearing, his sons began searching for a location to build a factory. Gordon Mather, a salesman with Cleveland Axle Co. and a friend of H.H. Timken, invited the Timkens to Canton in 1901. Brothers H.H. and W.R. Timken liked what they saw in the city. They talked with Board of Trade leaders, and by the end of the year Timken Roller Bearing Axle Co. called Stark County home. The decision 120 years ago to build Timken's bearing factory on Dueber Avenue SW in Canton had a profound impact on the com...