Christmas Lighting Installation in Columbiana, OH

Columbiana's festival calendar includes the Joy of Christmas Holiday Light Festival.

The city's annual Christmas Parade and Tree Lighting Ceremony was held on Friday, November 22 in 2024, with the tree lit at Town Square.

Columbiana also sits high. The city is at roughly 1,125 feet, higher than Canfield and well above the valley floor at Youngstown.

Elevation is the quiet variable in a Mahoning Valley December, because the boundary between rain and wet snow in a passing system can fall within a few hundred feet. Higher ground gets the frozen version of the same storm more often.

Joshua Dixon settled the site in 1802, and in 1805 he and William Heald laid out the town. By 1831 Columbiana had a railroad and three stores, and it became a village in 1837 and a city in 2000.

The city takes its name from Columbiana County, which honors Christopher Columbus. It covers 6.14 square miles, most of it in Fairfield Township, with a northern district across the line in Beaver Township in Mahoning County and a small eastern part in Unity Township.

The Jones-Bowman House at 540 Pittsburgh Street was built in 1842 by J. Jones, the son of an abolitionist, and tradition holds that it served the Underground Railroad. It is a two-story L-shaped home whose spiral staircase and four wood-burning fireplaces have not been altered since it went up. E. Bowman bought it in 1885, and the National Register listed it in December 1976.

Harvey S. Firestone, who founded the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company, was born and raised in Columbiana, and the city's history page credits him with a method for mass-producing tires. In 1933 he and his wife Idabelle gave land for Firestone Park, which opened in 1935 and covers 68 acres today. The Firestone family memorial stands in the nearby Columbiana Cemetery, and the Firestone Farms development carries his name, with a 1930s theme across its shopping and business park, housing and golf course.

State Routes 14 and 46 cross the north side of the city, State Routes 164 and 344 meet downtown, and State Route 7 passes the west side. The Norfolk Southern Fort Wayne Line and the Youngstown and Southeastern Railroad run through it.