Thanks to its new location, plenty of foot traffic can now view a historic piece of Mahoning Township up close and personnel.

A Civil War plaque has been refinished and adorns a wall inside the entrance to the Mahoning Valley Ambulance Association building.

Tom Zimmerman IV, president of the Mahoning Township Lions Club, said Roger and Elaine Diehl had the plaque redone for the Lions Club.

Phil Liszka, vice president of the ambulance association, said the decision to display the plaque inside the building was made at a recent board meeting.

“We all agreed that it would be nice to have it displayed here,” Liszka said. “A lot of people that come in on a Friday night for bingo (and get to see it).”

Township Supervisor Myron “Zeke” Blahy was impressed with the plaque’s new look.

“This is the proper place to display it to memorialize these guys,” Blahy said. “This is a beautiful piece of work; it’s beautifully displayed.”

In October 2021, township supervisors decided to donate a Civil War plaque to the Mahoning Township Lions Club.

A few days later, Blahy and then Supervisor David Pollock gathered with Zimmerman IV and David Hontz of the Lions Club.

The plaque, dedicated on Sept. 12, 1908, features the names of 35 men who honorably served in the Civil War.

All 35 - some wounded, others killed in the line of duty - attended a one-room wooden schoolhouse in New Mahoning where the plaque was originally posted in 1908.

It was erected by friends and classmates of Civil War servicemen who originated from the school.

The plaque was then moved to the then-new Mahoning Elementary School in 1954, where it remained in the foyer until the building closed in 2018.

It was moved to the township’s municipal building, where it remained until now.

Names of Civil War servicemen listed on the 1908 plaque are: Oliver F. Musselman; Otto Stermer; James Eames; John Miller; John Callahan; William Nothstein; Henry Snyder; William H. Fulton; Joseph Acherman; Samuel Eberts; William Stermer; Nathan Stermer; D.W.C. Henline; Thomas Musselman; Jacob Nothstein; Daniel Houser; Thomas Strauss; Reuben Reinsmith; Robert Sinyard; William Sendel; Amon Fritz; Josiah Musselman; Daniel Kressely; Stephen Fenstermacher; Peter Eberts; David Eberts; William Eberts; Henry Zellner; Jacob Strauss; Aaron B. Miller; Moses Neyer; Aaron Snyder; Elias Hoppes; John H. Arner; and James Kresge. Also listed are teachers Joseph Fulton and James Swank.