[5] Originally named Ferrara, the town was focused on farming along the Sunday Creek Valley.

That would change when the Atlantic and Lake Erie Railway completed the Moxahala tunnel in 1879.

By 1880, Joseph Rodgers sold over 8,000 acres along Sunday Creek to the Ohio Central Coal Company.

With New York capitalists investing heavily in the coal camp, the town was soon renamed Corning.

In addition to shootouts and murders, Corning saw several violent events that made it famous.

[10] In 1884, the town witnessed an Irish Catholic Feud between local parish Priest Father Bernard O’Boylan and saloon owner Andy McDevitt.

In 1895, the Mercer Hotel became the first Ohio business punished under the state’s anti-discrimination laws.

[12] The incident at the Mercer Hotel represented the “High Water Mark of the Color Line in Ohio,” establishing a boundary between acceptable and unacceptable segregation of African Americans across the state.

[13] According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 0.43 square miles (1.11 km2), all land.