Jonathan Wright Homestead

Historical marker location:

80 W. State Street, Springboro, Ohio

( Marker is on State Street, 0.1 miles west of Main Street, on the right when traveling west.)

Marker installed: 2003

circa 1815.

Ohio played a key role in the development of the modern steel industry. Andrew Carnegie, one of the most famous industrialists of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, started his career in the steel industry in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, but his first major investment was in a steel mill in Braddock, Ohio.