The case was first covered by The New York Times that December, followed by the computer hacker group Anonymous later that month, and the subsequent coverage of the trials in late 2013. The city gained international attention in late 2012 from the events surrounding the Steubenville High School rape case, which occurred in August 2012. In 2009, the college expanded its service district by three Ohio counties, and was renamed again: Eastern Gateway Community College. In 1995, it became a community college and was renamed Jefferson Community College. In 1977, its name was changed to Jefferson Technical College. In 1966, the Jefferson County Technical Institute was founded. In 1980, its name was changed to University of Steubenville, and finally in 1985 to Franciscan University of Steubenville. In 1946, the College of Steubenville was founded by the Franciscan Friars of the Third Order Regular. It was closed in 1898 and the buildings eventually raised for part of what is now State Rt 7. The Steubenville Female Seminary, also known as Beatty's Seminary for Young Ladies or Steubenville Seminary, was an early private educational institution for women founded by Presbyterian minister Charles Clinton Beatty in 1829. Louis Railroad, which connected Pittsburgh to Chicago and St. The city was a stop along the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. In 1856, Frazier, Kilgore and Company erected a rolling mill (the forerunner of steel mills) and the Steubenville Coal and Mining Company sank a coal shaft. Steubenville received a city charter in 1851. During the first half of the nineteenth century, Steubenville was primarily a port town, and the rest of the county was small villages and farms. On March 1, 1803, Ohio was admitted to the Union as the 17th state. Wells, a government surveyor born in Baltimore, received about 1,000 acres (4 km 2) of land west of the Ohio River Ross, a lawyer from Pittsburgh, owned land north of his. Clair, and Steubenville was selected as the County seat and was platted in the same year by Bezaliel (Bezaleel) Wells and James Ross, the city's co-founders. On July 29, 1797, Jefferson County was organized by a proclamation of Governor Arthur St. The town was sometimes referred to as La Belle City, a franglais interpretation of "The Beautiful City". The name Steubenville was derived from Fort Steuben to honor Baron von Steuben (the fort was named for the Baron). In the meantime, settlers had built homes around the fort they named their settlement Steubenville. When the surveyors completed their task a few years later, the fort was abandoned. In 1786–87, soldiers of the First American Regiment under Major Jean François Hamtramck built Fort Steuben to protect the government surveyors mapping the land west of the Ohio River, and named the fort in honor of Baron Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben. The Veterans Memorial Bridge connects Steubenville to Weirton, West Virginia, across the Ohio River and is the border crossing between the states of West Virginia and Ohio on U.S. Steubenville is a principal city of the Weirton–Steubenville, WV-OH Metropolitan Statistical Area, which had a 2010 population of 124,454 residents. It is recently gaining notoriety for the Steubenville Nutcracker Village, an annual Christmastime event. It is also known as the city where legendary entertainer, Dean Martin of the Rat Pack was born and raised. Historically, it was known as the birthplace and home town of the honorable Edwin Stanton, Secretary of War, during the Civil War. Both the campuses of Franciscan University of Steubenville and Eastern Gateway Community College are in Steubenville. Steubenville's nickname is the "City of Murals", after its more than 25 downtown murals. Today, a replica of the fort is open to the public. The city's name is derived from Fort Steuben, a 1786 fort that sat within the city's current limits and was named for Prussian military officer Baron Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben.
Located along the Ohio River 33 miles from Pittsburgh, it had a population of 18,161 at the 2020 census. Steubenville is a city in and the county seat of Jefferson County, Ohio, United States.