Question for John

[Towntalk]

It's curious how the township played a part in the city's industrial history.

The city heard that a steel mill was seeking to relocate, and to get the mill here, they wanted to offer them free land that it owned, but legally it couldn't do it, so they turned the land over to Youngstown Township which could, and in the end, got the mill.

[john r. swierz]

I  would have to ask the law dept.

[Towntalk]

On page 844 of volume 1 of J. G. Butler's "History Of Youngstown and the Mahoning Valley" it states that the Man on the Monument on Central Square was deeded over to Youngstown Township by Messrs. Bonnell, Butler, and Wick in about 1892, and that as of the publication of the book, that deed remained with the township which was separate from the city.

My question to you is did the city ever officially receive possession of that deed, and did the deed include the land the monument sits on?

If the city didn't get title to the deed and the deed includes the land it sits on, by what authority does the city have tampering with either the monument or the land it sits on?