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1902 Shelby Blues team photo, featuring Charles Follis

View of Severance Hall (chemistry), constructed in 1902, from the academic quad of the College of Wooster

A graph charting the change in the types of businesses downtown, from the 1970s to today. Estimates are based on phone book listings.

223 W Liberty Street in 2013, visible businesses include Friendtique, Uptown Downtown Antiques, and The Wooster Book Company

Rear view of newly-built lofts in the Merchant's Block building on West Liberty Street, many are already sold

A photo of South Market Street, near the Square, in 2013.

A photo of the gazebo on the northeast corner of the square, with banners advertising events downtown

A photo of a banner on the town square advertising the Ohio Light Opera

The sign for the Main Street Wooster and Chamber of Commerce building on West Liberty Street

This is a photo of the interior of Local Roots Market & Cafe in Wooster

This is a photo of Local Roots Market & Cafe on South Walnut Street

This is a photo of South Market Bistro, a Wooster restaurant serving local, seasonal ingredients.

Wayne County countryside outside of OARDC

Second Baptist Church's current building on Grant Street

The detail above the door shows the building was finished in 1896.

The old administration building, one of the first building’s completed on the Madison Hill, still stands today.

OARDC’s Wooster campus is located just south of the town and features Secrest Arboretum, ATI, and BioHio Research Park.

The building where Second Baptist was housed between 1955 and 1976

Portrait of Reverend Leroy Adams with his wife Helen, and two children

The original Vine Street building where Second Baptist was located from its establishment in 1894 until 1955

A portrait of Richard L. Morrison Sr., founder of Second Baptist Church, circa 1890.

Standing proudly on the main square downtown, the courthouse is the most well-known building to Wooster residents and visitors.

An area at the entrance of the Oak Hill Cemetery on the edge of Wooster, this is another potential site for the former Beaver Hat Town Lenape village.

A view from the intersections memorial, this is potentially a part of the area that was once occupied by Chief Pallelelond's apple orchard. It is now sovered by routes 30, 83, and 3.

This memorial was built by the City of Wooster to recognize the crossing of three major indigenous trails that intersected in what is not Wooster. While it stands a few hundred feet from where they intersected upon the Larwills' arrival, it pays…

Although Bever’s family name may still be up for debate, the town uses the common Irish pronunciation and the common German spelling for the street named in his honor: a seamless combination of his cultural background.

The current downtown Wooster courthouse serves as a reminder of one of the conditions for Wooster’s position as county seat, which was to construct a courthouse.

Many of Wooster’s streets are named after the early surveyors such as North Grant Street (pictured above), North Bever Street, and West Larwill Street.

Photograph depicting one of Rubbermaid's first products, a green rubber dustpan, which James Caldwell developed in 1932, and began manufacturing with Wooster Rubber Company in 1934

1950 Rubbermaid advertisement with the slogan "to lighten & brighten your housework"