Massillon is a principal city of the Canton–Massillon metropolitan area, which includes all of Stark and Carroll counties and had a population of 401,574 in 2020.

[6] Duncan, known as the city's founder, named the town after Jean-Baptiste Massillon, a French Catholic bishop, at the request of his wife.

[14] Attendees voted to establish the Ohio Women's Rights Association (OWRA), which held its first meeting the following year in Ravenna.

Massillon Rolling merged into the Central Steel Company in 1914, and lit its first open hearth furnace in 1915.

Macomber's invention was a revolutionary assembly of steel joists with a top slab used to support of floors, ceilings and roofs.

Massillon was a site where one of the most tragic instances of anti-union violence in the history of the United States occurred, during the Little Steel strike of 1937.

On the night of July 11, 1937, a car failed to dim its headlights as it approached a police barricade near a picket line at one of the Massillon plants.

Joined by National Guardsmen, the police destroyed the union hall and arrested every suspected unionist they could find.

[30] Ohio Historical Marker #18-76 was erected in 2004 in front of the Massillon City Hall in memory of the Little Steel Strike of 1937.

Although his march failed, Coxey's Army was an early attempt to arouse political interest in an issue that grew in importance until the Social Security Act of 1935 encouraged the establishment of state unemployment insurance programs.

[53] The museum's collection encompasses approximately 100,000 objects[54] in 94 categories, 60,000 photographs, and 18,000 archival and reference documents.

The 100-square foot miniature circus contains 2,620 pieces: thirty-six elephants, 186 horses, 102 assorted animals, ninety-one wagons, seven tents, and 2,207 people.

Perhaps one of the most exciting parts of their Underground Railroad history is a letter written by George Duncan, a freedom seeker who was still on the run, to Thomas and Charity.

George trusted the Rotches to help reunite him with his companion Edy, who was waiting for safer passage before escaping herself.

The 1915 landmark movie theatre, designed by Guy Tilden, was saved from demolition by the local Lions International club in 1982.

Today the theatre hosts community events, and screens classic and second-run movies on weekends.

In July 2008 Massillon was nominated as one of only twenty cities nationwide as a finalist in ESPN's "Titletown U.S.A." contest.

[62] On July 21, a rally was held at Paul Brown Tiger Stadium while ESPN filmed a segment that was aired on SportsCenter.

Massillon finished fourth in the voting behind Valdosta, Georgia; Parkersburg, West Virginia; and Green Bay, Wisconsin.

[68] The construction of Paul Brown Tiger Stadium in Massillon was completed in 1939 through the Works Progress Administration program.

[18] The stadium currently holds 16,884 people[69] and is named after former Tiger player and head coach Paul Brown.

[70] The stadium also hosts the annual Pro Football Hall of Fame drum and bugle corps competition.

In the years since the Ohio high school playoff system was instituted in 1972, the Tigers have accumulated a current record of 316-117-4.

There have been 23 professional players, 3 NFL coaches, and 14 collegiate all-Americans that have graduated from Massillon Washington High School.

The Tigers won 7-2 against Archbishop Hoban High School on 30 November 2023 to clinch the OHSAA D-II state football championship, thus ending a 53 year drought.

At the beginning of each half time show, they perform what is known as "Opening Routine", this tradition that goes back for decades and consists of the band's entrance ("Turn Arounds") followed by "Fanfare", "Tiger Rag" and "Carry On".

[87] Akron–Canton Airport is 10 miles (16 km) north of the city and provides daily commercial passenger and air freight service.

[88] Amtrak offers daily service on its Capitol Limited to Chicago and Washington, D.C. from a regional passenger station in Alliance, Ohio.

[11] Norfolk Southern, Wheeling-Lake Erie, and the R. J. Corman railroads provide freight service in Massillon.

[citation needed] Washington High School has a Media Arts and Communications Career-Technical Education program, WHS-TV.