Biohazard and Pathogen Disinfection in Malvern, OH

Malvern is a village in Brown Township, in northwestern Carroll County, Ohio, and it is the county's second-largest village.

The area was settled in 1806 by Moses and Mary Porter, and in 1834 Rev. William Hardesty platted a village called Troy on the site.

Troy was renamed Malvern in 1840, after the Malvern Hills in England, and Malvern was incorporated on May 31, 1869, later absorbing the neighboring village of Lodi.

The historic Great Trail, the main overland route into the Ohio Country, passed through the Malvern valley, and General Lachlan McIntosh's Continental Army camped here on November 13-14, 1778, on its way to build Fort Laurens, Ohio's only Revolutionary War fort.

Malvern was home to some of the first paving bricks made in Ohio, produced from 1893 by the Malvern Clay Company and the Canton & Malvern Fire Clay Paving Brick Company, which together turned out more than 16 million bricks a year.

Malvern had 1,110 residents at the 2020 census; in 2010 it counted 1,189 people in 522 households, down from a peak of 1,320 in 1960.

The whole village covers just 0.67 square miles along State Route 43 and Big Sandy Creek, yet it is part of the Canton-Massillon metropolitan area.

Just outside the village is Lake Mohawk, a 507-acre private lake community created in 1962 from 2,300 acres of farmland, now home to more than 900 families who share Malvern's ZIP code, 44644.

Malvern High School, established in 1890, is the only high school in the Brown Local School District, and its teams - the Hornets - compete in the Inter-Valley Conference.