Next History Share: Thursday, April 16, 2026 at 6pm. Next Meeting: Thursday, May 21, 2026 at 6pm, Mecca Town Hall

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Photos & News Clippings

The Mecca Lakeside Zoo was owned and operated by Orla Drum through the 1950s and 60s. The Mecca Barn stands on the present location on Rt 46.

East Mecca Park, known today as Mecca Circle

The Red Brick Beauty north of the circle on Rt. 46.

The Fowler General Store was also known as the Mecca Trading Post, Circle Inn, Roth's, and had many other names and purposes. Built in the 1830s, it still stands at Mecca Circle.

Dr. James Smith Brown

1853-1923
Born James Smith, adopted by by James and Rachel Buck Brown. Specialized in infectious diseases in children.

The 1880 Dr. Brown House and Mail Pouch barn just off of Mecca Circle.
The first schoolhouse in Mecca once stood on this property.

Above: The bridge over Mosquito Creek looking from the east side of Mecca to the west.
Top right: Noble Mason, early settler and first school teacher in west Mecca.
Bottom right: The Daniel Bates residence. Built in 1901, it still stands near the northwest corner of Rt 88 and Phillips-Rice.

Alanson McCullour1814-1901Early SettlerRead his story here

Lathrop & Jennie Boon Palmer with son Frank (center) in front of their house.

Squire Nathan Palmer1811-1882Justice of the Peace

Lucretia (Abell) Palmer1819-1897

George F. Troxel

Proprietor of West Mecca's General Store & Post Master
Mecca I.O.O.F. member

Clinton Irwin
Farmer, Trustee,
Mecca I.O.O.F. Grand

John Genger
From the collection of Jeff Donaldson

William Johnson
1844-1898Trumbull County Representative,Civil War Veteran, Farmer

George Boon
1820-1899Farmer

Martha (Clark) Boon
1829-1909

James Jacob Winans
1838-1919Civil War Veteran, Farmer,
Sawmill Owner

John Cisney Armstrong
1830-1916Farmer, Carpenter. Donated land for the United Presbyterial Church on Bazetta Rd.

Martha (Kier) Armstrong
1833-1893

William Kier Armstrong
1866-1940
Farmer, Carpenter

Vestina (Winans) Armstrong
1867-1952Hotel Manager

The intersection of route 88 and Bazetta Road looking east. The store building at left is the present location of Monty's. From the 1874 Trumbull Co. Atlas.

West Mecca School in 1916. Leah Harris is standing in the back row, third from right. She met her husband, John Winans Armstrong, who was the "bus driver" and took students to and from school by horse and buggy. She graduated that spring and the couple married that winter.

Students in front of the west central school building, about 1916. Leah Harris is in the front row, second from left.

The Mecca centralized school was built in 1927 and razed in 1943 to make way for Mosquito Reservoir. The bricks of the old building can still be seen off the south side of the causeway at low tide.

Playbill from Mecca School, 1932

From the collection of Arlene Duff

Mecca AC Baseball Team Clipping

Most likely from the 1930s. From the collection of Arlene Duff.

Central School Building, East Mecca, in 1907. Built in 1904 with a sister school in the west, they were tore down in 1927 with the construction of the consolidated school in the center of Mecca.

Residence of John F. Klumpp

Lachman House was originally a grocery and notions store and hotel. When owned by Mr. Millikin, it operated as a store and post office. It was known at one time as the Wheel Inn and still stands at Mecca Circle next to Cones & Coney's.

Residence of Hermen Love, built in 1866. It still stands south of Mecca Circle on Rt. 46. It remained in the Love family until 2003.

Mecca Community Church in 2000, just north of Mecca Circle on 46. It was originally built by the Freewill and Congregational Churches. Dedicated in the fall of 1842. President Garfield preached there when he was a divinity student at Hiram College. It was saved from demolition and moved to Hiram College in 2006-2007. In 2012, it was rechristened as Koritansky Hall.