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"I’ve been spending a lot of time in Ravenna recently. No, not the town in Italy with its early Christian buildings and glittering mosaics. I mean Ravenna, Ohio, a small industrial city of some 12,000 people near Akron. "

 

http://www.newgeography.com/content/002921-historic-heritage-rust-belt

 

Here Architectural Historian, Robert Bruegmann, discusses Ravenna Flagpole, calling it a " fascinating product of late 19th century American engineering ingenuity".