 In 1881, after a vote, the town was incorporated under its present name inspired by the Canadian city of the same name, which civic leader Thomas M. Daniels felt was a place worth emulating.In the 20th century, the town became a center of heavy industry with a number of large factories in and around the town.In the 1980s and 1990s the city, along with the rest of the region, declined sharply as manufacturing jobs left.