About Us:

In 1799, Michael Pearce, a native of Essex County, New Jersey, founded the community that was to become Trenton, Ohio. The land deed, signed by President Thomas Jefferson and Secretary of State James Madison, established a parcel of 1,500 acres stretching from the Miami River on the east, to the present State Street on the north, and on towards the present Wayne Madison Road as the western boundary. Pearce platted 33 lots in 1816 and selected the name of Bloomfield for the new community. In 1820 an application for a Post Office was filed. To avoid confusion with another Ohio town, Pearce renamed the village as a remembrance of his birthplace, New Jersey's state capital Trenton. Trenton supported the surrounding agricultural industry with businesses including a sawmill, blacksmith, cooperage and hardware store. A hotel offered accommodations to travelers journeying from the state capital in Chillicothe to Miami University and points west. The Toll House, in use in 1825, still stands as a symbol of the city’s early history. During the industrial revolution, Trenton developed manufacturing businesses including the New Foundry Appliance Company established during World War I. Today, Trenton’s largest employer is Magnode Inc., a family-owned firm that produces aluminum extrusion products for the automotive, defense and electronics industries. Miller Brewing Company’s Trenton Brewery sits just outside the city limits in St. Clair township. The company's most state-of-the-art US brewery provides 650 jobs for area residents. Retail businesses and restaurants have long thrived in Trenton, including Chamberlain’s Confectionary opened in 1923 by Charles Chamberlain. Chamberlain’s son Ray converted the store into a Café which he operated until the late 1970s. Other retail establishments included Odin Schmidt Grocery which sold nectar ice cream famous throughout the county. The Eicher Building, once a grocery and drug store, still stands on East State Street as a landmark to Trenton’s business heritage. Growth was slow in the village and it was not until 1971 that the population had grown to the required 5,000 to be classified as a city. By the 1990 census, the population of the city had increased to 6,100. Over the past six years, Trenton has experienced a marked increase in new residential construction. Additional land has been annexed into the city's boundaries, increasing the city's jurisdiction. Current estimates from the 2000 census places Trenton's population at 10,000. Trenton is proud to preserve a long heritage of small-town life with easy access to major Midwestern commercial and cultural centers.