TCPA Business Park

	A Brief History of the Tuscarawas County Port Authority Business Park
		1865 It all began in 1865, when Mr. Cox Jones built the Dover Rolling Mill Co. on Factory St. (now Tuscarawas Ave.) in Dover, Ohio. The actual site of the Dover Rolling Mill Co. was later occupied by American Sheet and Tin Plate and presently by General Electric. Over the next 18 years, the mill remained idle off and on and changed hands four times.
		1880s In 1883, Jabez and Jeremiah Reeves purchased the Dover Rolling Mill Co. and, after making extensive improvements, opened a new company, The Reeves Iron Co., in 1884. The company flourished and in a joint venture, the townspeople and the Reeves brothers put up enough money to add a merchant bar mill, a plate mill, four sheet mills, a galvanizing department, a corrugating iron roofing department and a black plate mill. Employment mounted to over 1,000. A year later, a tin mill was erected at the site of the present Tuscarawas County Port Authority Business Park.
		1900s In the early 1900s, the major rolling equipment was sold to various competitors. Samuel J. Reeves and A. J. Krantz organized the Reeves Manufacturing Co. to manufacture corrugated iron and steel specialties. After the acquisition of the Ohio Stove Pipe Co. at New Philadelphia, Ohio, and a merger of the Dover Forge and Iron Co., the firm became Reeves Steel and Manufacturing Co. The company produced pipe and elbows, galvanized ware and air tight wood heaters. Next came a new three-high semi-continuous mill, and eventually a 36-inch continuous galvanizing line, a temper mill and annealing units.
		1950s In the late 1950s, the Reeves Steel and Manufacturing Co. merged with Empire Steel Corp. and Universal Cyclops Steel Corp. The name was again changed to Reeves Steel and Manufacturing Co., Division of Empire Reeves Steel Corp.
		1960s In the mid 1960s, the company installed a second temper mill and a 48-inch continuous strip galvanizing line. The company name was changed to Empire-Reeves Steel Division, Cyclops Corp., and operated under this banner for about five years.
		1970s In 1970 Cyclops rearranged the structure of its division companies and Reeves was united with Bowman Building Products in Heidelberg, Pa. The name was then changed to Reeves-Bowman Division.
		1980s - 1990s In 1984, Stove Pipe Metalware & Roofing Divisions closed, and in 1992, Armco purchased Cyclops Corp. Seven years later, in 1999, AK Steel purchased Armco and closed the building. The Tuscarawas County Port Authority purchased the building in 2003, establishing it as a Business Park, and immediately introduced its first tenant - Owens Corning - continuing a tradition of corporate prominence and industrial leadership in the county.