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See WP:CITY for more details on how to improve the Mansfield, Ohio article. Please include citations (references) when adding information. Here are sections that still need to be improved: History - major historical events that occurred in city (this section needs to be expanded). If anyone can help out, that would be great. Please include citations (references) when adding information. Cityscape - This section needs to be expanded Churches - The page needs such a section, covering church schools, too Industry and business - Additional treatment should include Ohio Brass Company and Mansfield Tire & Rubber Company. The Gorman-Rupp Company, Therm-O-Disc and other companys should also be included in this section. Sports - This section can be added if any information comes along. See also - links to various lists (could be needed down the line as article nears GA status) Articles To Create: Mayors: Donald Culliver (D) - Mansfield's current and first african american mayor (2007-present), Lydia Reid (D) - Mansfield's last and first women mayor (1993-2007) Founder: Jared Mansfield - founder of Mansfield Industry: Crane Plumbing, Gorman-Rupp Company, Hyundal Ideal Elctric Company, Newman Technology, Inc Colleges and universities: MedCentral College of Nursing Medical: MedCentral Health System Museums: Mansfield Memorial Museum, Mansfield Art Center Performing arts: Mansfield Playhouse

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Contents 1 Highway Safety Foundation 2 Tourist attractions 3 History 4 Central Highlands 5 Climate 6 Cityscape 7 Churches 8 Mansfield/Mehock Relays 9 Userbox 10 Good Article 10.1 Pictures 11 Sister cities 12 Jones Potato Chip Company

[edit] Highway Safety Foundation

Over half of this article is about the Highway Safety Foundation, only incidentally relevant to the town of Mansfield by virtue of being located there. Matter about the Foundation ought to be split off into a separate article. Jm546 21:36, 30 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Tourist attractions

Shouldn't the Ohio State Reformatory be also included in this section? It DOES draw a lot of visitors to the prison tours, and the annual haunted house display that is hosted there. Also a lot of conventions like the Ohio Medieval convention are held there.

[edit] History

I added Mansfield's history article. JeffreyAllen1975 20:00, 4 November 2005 (UTC)

Could you make an entry here or maybe a seperate entry on the Ohio Brass Company?

Can anyone add a mention of Martin Yant and Mansfield corruption?

I feel we need alot of additional information on the history of the city. If anyone can help out, that would be great.---OHWiki 03:08, 18 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Central Highlands

Mansfield lies in a distinct geographic area referred to as the Central Highlands. I believe that Mansfield sits at a higher elevation than any other major Ohio city. One of the highest points in Ohio, except for Campbell Hill northwest of Columbus.

• Logan County is the highest county in Ohio (or so the sign says), so Bellefontaine is the highest city. At 13,000 pop, I suppose your definition of "major" may make a difference. --Tysto 17:52, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

Campbell Hill lies within the city limits of Bellefontaine, so technically Bellefontaine is at a higher elevation. Frankly, I'm not sure either Mansfield or Bellefontaine qualify as "major cities", yet both are indeed cities. So there's really no way to justify the claim, unless one tries to link elevation with population (e.g. "Highest Ohio city with a population greater than 50,000"). This strikes me as a bit of a useless exercise. -- SwissCelt 13:57, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Climate

I added the Climate section for Mansfield, Ohio. There are two references that are in the climate section with all of the weather averages and numbers in them. If there are any numbers that are off by a hair, please anyone can make corrections to them or they can be updated when new averages come out in 2010.--OHWiki 01:21, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

I improved the climate Infobox, its looks much better this time around, I improved all of the numbers in the infobox.--OHWiki 06:39, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Cityscape

"Cityscape - This section can be added later," according to the note above.

What happend to the three paragraphs that I completed during the past year? Was there a discussion of the deletion in these Talk pages? What was the rationale for the deletion?

Several persons have requested improvements about history in the article, and the deleted paragraphs tried to meet that request. CoppBob 20:47, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

As far as the history section goes, I was able to improve a little bit of the history section while the rest was deleted because it had been copyed from the city's website by another user a year or two back. Some of that copy edit stuff like on the city's economy I was able to turn around, rewrite and improve while the other copy edit stuff was deleted.---OHWiki 03:39, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

My paragraphs about Woodland and Boulevards neighborhoods in Cityscape were my own work, and represented many years of my personal attention to Mansfield history (since 1926, in fact) and represented also many hours of personal research in the John Sherman history room of the library. I'm disappointed to see them so casually deleted without either discussion or reason. Since you took them out, how about re-insdrting them again, or telline me why they are inappropriate. Will this happen next to my own original pargraph on railroads in Mansfield and on history of the Lincoln Highway there? Thanks. CoppBob 04:12, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

No they will not, they are very important to the article.---OHWiki 20:29, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

I readded the Cityscape section back in the article. It got deleted by User:63.172.200.217 (talk) on 19:46, 6 August 2007 for no aparent reason. I apologize for that---OHWiki 20:21, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Churches

Churches have been very important in the history and growth of Mansfield, and we ought to have a section about them. It would be great if someone could get such a section started. CoppBob (talk) 17:38, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

I will have to see because I haven't noticed any other city articles with such a section on churches yet.---OHWiki 20:42, 7 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Mansfield/Mehock Relays

The article needs a paragraph about these well-known track and field meets held each April beginning in 1927. I may make a stab at a first draft, but others should have good personal knowledge. CoppBob 14:40, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

Please keep the 1927 date of origin. That's from the history on the relays web site and from my personal recollection as a resident of Mansfield at that time. CoppBob 03:02, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

That is very interesting stuff, please keep me up to date on that.—OHWiki 02:26, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Userbox

There is a user box available for use for Wikipedians who live within Mansfield or the Mansfield Metropolitan Statistical Area shown below.

What to type	What it makes
{{User Mansfield, Ohio}}	This user lives in or hails from Mansfield, Ohio.

--OHWiki 01:04, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Good Article

I been doing alot of improvements on the Mansfield, Ohio article since January 2007 and my goal is to at least get it up to good article standards, hopefully with some help from other Wikipedia users.--OHWiki 01:17, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

I was thinking of starting a WikiProject for Mansfield, Ohio, but I'm afraid that there won't be enough Wikipedia users that will join me for the project. There are alot of red links that need to become blue links, articles related to Mansfield that you see in the main article. See WP:RA for more information.---OHWiki 01:44, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

OHWiki, I was a boyhood resident of Mansfield in the Twenties and Thirties and have kept a continuing interest in it until now, in my 87th year. I just want to thank you for all of your contributions to the Mansfield article; they are really helpful! As to a Mansfield WikiProject, I rather agree with your comment above that you would be one of the very few persons (if not the only one) working on it. And you are doing a great job just as things now stand! CoppBob 13:35, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Pictures

I'm going to take some pictures in and around Mansfield sometime this summer when the sun is out and the rain is not around.--OHWiki 01:17, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

Since 16 September 2007, I added five new images that I self-made from my digital camera.---OHWiki 22:23, 22 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Sister cities

Is Mansfield, Massachusetts really a sister city of Mansfield, Ohio, no I don't think so because I don't find any proof. I searched yahoo for a reference and I can't find any proof that Mansfield, Massachusetts is a sister city for Mansfield, Ohio. Mansfield, Massachusetts is within the United States of America. Cities within the United States do not twin with other cities in the United States. Mansfield, England and Tamura, Fukushima, Japan are true sister cities for Mansfield, Ohio.--OHWiki 02:36, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Jones Potato Chip Company

I think that it would be best that we just do away with creating a article on the Jones Potato Chips topic since it is already listed in the article under "Industry and business" section. It would be a wast of a page since there is little information on the topic so far.---OHWiki 00:30, 1 May 2008 {UTC)

Did a redirect, done deal.---OHWiki 20:18, 2 May 2008 (UTC)