In the 2012 ranking of the best cities in the United States, Youngstown, Ohio, ranked fourth for raising families. The city's schools, current low crime rate, cost of living, and property taxes are among its main articles: Covelli Center

Despite the impact of regional economic decline, Youngstown offers an array of cultural and recreational resources . In addition, the community has increased in recent years a series of tourist attractions. The newest addition is the Covelli Center, a venue for Division I hockey games, concerts, "ice" shows, and other forms of entertainment. The cultural centerpiece of the community is Power Auditorium, a former Warner Bros. movie palace that serves as the area's primary music hall while providing a home for the Youngstown Symphony Orchestra. This downtown landmark is home to 5 auditoriums within the city limits. In addition, the newly renovated Power Auditorium was built in 2006 as the Ford Recital Hall. The imposing and neoclassical Stambaud Auditorium, on the north side of the city, has served for decades as a concert site and is often rented for private events. The center also hosts the Stambaugh Youth Orchestra.

The Oakland Arts Center, in the downtown area, is a venue for locally produced theater. The institution complements the Youngstown Playhouse's south side of the city. Youngstown, Mahoning County's grassroots community theater, serves an area of ??8, despite intermittent financial problems. Well-known theater figures from the Youngstown area include Comedy actor Joe Flynn, screen actress Elizabeth Hartman, singer and Broadway performer Maureen McGovern, television and film actor Ed O'Neill The Butler Institute of American Arts is on the northeast edge of Youngstown. State University Campus. The institution was founded by industrialist Joseph G. Butler, Jr., in 1919 as the first museum dedicated to American art in the country. Across from Butler College stands the Macdonald Museum of Art, YSU. The University Art Museum and Mahoning Valley Center for Contemporary Art, established in 1991, features regularly changing exhibition areas featuring national and international artists and art department students, faculty and alumni. The museum operates to provide public access to the YSU campus, operated by the university's Department of Geology, and is housed in a building on the north side of YSU's Mahoning Valley History Museum. The Society Museum, housed in a 1905 Arts and Crafts-style mansion on Wyke Avenue, was once the legacy of a local industrialist. The museum maintains rooms from the period, displaying the home's original contents, including furniture, artwork, and personal items. The museum's installation revolves around the theme of local history. The museum recently opened the "Anne Kilcawley Christman History Room" in the estate's former carriage house.

The Youngstown Historic Center for Industry and Labor sits on a level south of the YSU campus, overlooking the downtown area. This museum, owned and operated by the Ohio Historical Society, focuses on the history of the Mahoning Valley. Steel Production. Other museums include the Valley Children's Museum, an interactive education center in the downtown area, and the Davis Education and Recreation Center, a small museum that showcases the history of Youngstown's Mill Creek Park on the city's north side. On the side of the Youngstown Steel Heritage Foundation's building is the Todd Engine Heritage Park, which features a collection of steel industry equipment and artifacts. The main exhibit is the 1914 William Todd Co. Mill Steam Engine, built and used in Youngstown. The Youngstown Table and Tube Briarwood Hill Engineering, one of the three remaining Mill Creek Engines in America, is one of Youngstown's most popular resources at Mill Creek Park. A mile (8 km) long stretch of landscaped woodland reminiscent of Rock Creek Park in Washington, DC Mill Creek Park is the oldest park district in Ohio, established in 1891 as a township park.

Highlights of the park include the restored 19th-century Lante's Mill, the Bear Den in the Rock Formation, the Fractional Nature Trail, the Fellows Riverside Gardens and Education Center, the "Cinderella" Iron Link Bridge, and 2 18-hole Donald Ross Golf Lessons.

Mill Creek Park encompasses approximately 2,600 acres (1,100 hectares), 20 miles (32 km) of drives and 15 miles (24 km) of trails. Its attractions include gardens, streams, lakes, woodlands, meadows, and wildlife.

The popular lookout point at Fellows Riverside Gardens provides visitors with contrasting views of the area. From the south side, the canopy of glades overlooking Lake Glacier is visible, and visitors get a view of downtown Youngstown from the north side. The park features two 18-hole golf courses. The terrain on the north course is undulating, while the south course features narrow, tree-lined fairways. Other features include a playground, athletic fields and picnic areas.

In 2005, Moxi Park was placed on the National Register of Historic Places. The plaque commemorating this event was created by Volney Rogers, a Youngstown attorney who set aside land and created a memorial statue near Mill Creek Park.

Wick Park is a small recreational area on the historic north side. The perimeter of Wake Park is lined with early 20th century mansions built by the city's industrialists, business leaders, and professionals during Youngstown's "boom" years. Stambaugh Auditorium, a popular venue for concerts and other public events, is located near the park's southwest edge. Another small recreation area on the north side is called Crandall Park. Crandall Park offers well-maintained and landscaped homes, tree-lined streets suitable for walkable shopping and recreation. Several cemeteries (especially the historic Oak Hill Cemetery) and small recreational spaces are scattered throughout the city. These recreational spaces include Home Park, John White Park, Dailin Park, Borts Swimming Pool, and North Side Swimming Pool.

"youngstown" Singer: Bruce springstoen

The lyrics are as follows:

Here in north east Ohio

Back in eighteen-o-three

James and Danny Heaton

Found the ore that was linin' yellow creek

They built a blast furnace

Here along the shore

And they made the cannon balls

That helped the union win the war

Here in Youngstown

Here in Youngstown

My sweet Jenny, I'm sinkin' down

Here darlin' in Youngstown

Well my daddy worked the furnaces

Kept 'em hotter than hell

I come home from 'Nam worked my way to scarfer

A job that'd suit the devil as well

Taconite, coke and limestone

Fed my children and made my pay

Then smokestacks reachin' like the arms of god

Into a beautiful sky of soot and clay

Here in Youngstown

Here in Youngstown

My sweet Jenny, I'm sinkin' down

Here darlin' in Youngstown

Well my daddy come on the 0hio works

When he come home from world war two

Now the yards just scrap and rubble

He said, Them big boys did what Hitler couldn't do

These mills they built the tanks and bombs

That won this country's wars

We sent our sons to Korea and Vietnam

Now we're wondering what they were dyin' for

Here in Youngstown

Here in Youngstown

My sweet Jenny, I'm sinkin' down

Here darlin' in Youngstown

From

the Monongaleh valley

To the Mesabi iron range

To the coal mines of Appalacchia

The story's always the same

Seven-hundred tons of metal a day

Now sir you tell me the world's changed

Once I made you rich enough

Rich enough to forget my name

In Youngstown

In Youngstown

My sweet Jenny, I'm sinkin' down

Here darlin' in Youngstown

When I die I don't want no part of heaven

I would not do heavens work well

I pray the devil comes and takes me

To stand in the fiery furnaces of hell

Chinese translation:

This is northwest Ohio

Back to 1803

James and Dan .Heaton

Ore was discovered in the Yellow River Valley

They built an iron furnace

Along the river bank

They produced again Cannon

Help the Union win the war (Civil War)

This is youngstown

This is youngstown~

My dear Jenny, I Declining

This is dear youngstown

My dad works in the furnaces

Making them hotter than hell

I After returning from Nam, I switched to working as a burner

A job that also serves the devil

Taconite, coke, limestone

I raised my children and gave them I received my salary

Then the black smoke rose, as if I was in the arms of God

Into the beautiful sky full of smoke and clay

This is youngstown

This is youngstown

My dear Jenny, I am fading

This is dear youngstown

My dad went to work in Ohio,

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When he came back from World War II

Now the yard is just scrap and rubble

He said they big boys were doing things Hitler couldn't

Them Tanks and bombs were produced from these mines

They won the nation's wars

We sent our children to Korea and Vietnam

Now we are thinking about them What on earth were you fighting for?

This is youngstown

This is youngstown

My dear Jenny, I am fading

This is dear youngstown

From the Monongahela Valley

to the Mesabi iron ore region

to the iron mines of Appalachia

The story is always the same

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Producing 700 tons of steel a day

Now, sir, you tell us that the world has changed

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Once I made you rich enough

So rich that you forgot my name

youngstown ah

youngstown ah

My dear Jenny I'm fading

This is dear youngstown

When I die, I don't want to go to heaven

I won't be fine in heaven

I begged the devil to come and take me away

to leave me in the hell of a fiery iron furnace.