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The old Port of Massillon on the Tuscarawas River, where a canal town became a steel town.
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128 jobs and service calls in Massillon since 2022. Most common: Garage door repair, spring repair and garage door service.
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Garage door spring repair by Proactive Garage Door Repair
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Garage door springs, tracks and hardware serviced by Proactive Garage Door Repair
Garage door spring work by our local technician for a customer in Massillon.
Garage door opener work by our local technician for a customer in Massillon.
Garage door work by our local technician for a customer in Massillon.
Garage door installation by our crew for a customer in Massillon.
Garage door work by our local technician for a customer in Massillon.
Garage door spring work by our local technician for a customer in Massillon.
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Massillon stretches along the Tuscarawas River in western Stark County and had 32,146 residents at the 2020 census. It is one of the two principal cities of the Canton-Massillon metropolitan area, which takes in all of Stark and Carroll counties. The city grew up as an industrial center, first on the Ohio and Erie Canal and then on the railroads, and steel and machinery making drove much of that growth.
The 2020 count found 13,625 households in 14,777 housing units, and a median age of 41.5. Garages here run from single doors on older houses to attached two-car garages in newer neighborhoods. Whatever time one of them breaks, phone us for same-day service on most calls, often within 1 hour. We call you when we're on the way.
A new door can change the look of a house faster than almost anything else. We install Clopay, Amarr and Wayne Dalton doors in raised-panel, carriage-house and modern styles, with insulated options for attached garages. See door installation.
Our openers come from LiftMaster, Chamberlain and Genie, including quiet belt drives; more at opener installation.
Massillon's central business district runs along Lincoln Way from about State Route 21 to Wales Road, and the Norfolk Southern, Wheeling and Lake Erie and R. J. Corman railroads still haul freight through the city. Workshops and loading docks around them run on overhead doors, and we provide commercial door repair and operator service for them.
Thomas Rotch, a Quaker from New Bedford, Massachusetts, founded the settlement of Kendal in 1812. James Duncan of New Hampshire lived in Kendal before recording the plat for Massillon on December 6, 1826, and at his wife's request he named it after Jean-Baptiste Massillon, a French Catholic bishop. The plat ran along the east bank of the Tuscarawas on the surveyed route of the Ohio and Erie Canal. The section from Cleveland was finished in 1828, and Massillon quickly became a major canal town, the Port of Massillon.
Telegraph lines reached town in 1847 and the railroad in 1852. Massillon became a village in 1853 and a city in 1868. Local inventors left their mark: Joseph Davenport built the first locomotive cowcatcher and cab here, and Stanley Macomber designed the open-web steel joist in 1921 and patented it in 1924. The basis of his design for supporting floors, ceilings and roofs is still used today.
The Lincoln Highway, envisioned in 1913, followed Main Street through the center of town, and Main Street was renamed Lincoln Way. A freeway built in 1971 took U.S. 30 around the south side, and the old highway through Massillon and Canton became State Route 172. Neighborhoods such as Amherst Heights, Sippo Heights, Walnut Hills and Perry Heights grew up around it, and many of their garages still run on original tracks and springs that we replace as they wear out.
Stark County winters bring hard freezes, wet snow and plenty of road salt, and a garage door feels all of it. Cold thickens the grease on rollers and hinges, ice can bond the bottom seal to the floor, and a spring close to the end of its life tends to break on the first bitter morning.
If the door will not move, stop pressing the button and give us a call; forcing it can strip the opener's gear. A fall tune-up is the simplest way to head that off.
The Massillon Museum, founded in 1933 and now downtown in the historic Gensemer Brothers Dry Goods building, holds about 100,000 objects. A favorite is the Immel Circus, a miniature circus of 2,620 pieces, most of them hand-carved by Dr. Robert Immel with tools from his dental practice. Spring Hill Historic Home, the house of Kendal founders Thomas and Charity Rotch, opened to the public in 1973 and tells the story of their Underground Railroad work; it joined the National Park Service's Network to Freedom in 2006. The Lions Lincoln Theatre, a 1915 movie house designed by Guy Tilden and saved by the local Lions club in 1982, still screens classic films on weekends.
The parks department runs a recreation center, a senior center and 35 parks and open spaces, and both the Sippo Valley Bike & Hike Trail and the Ohio and Erie Canal Towpath Trail pass through. Football runs deep here: the Washington High School Tigers are among the winningest high school teams in the country, their rivalry with the McKinley High School Bulldogs of Canton is famous, and coach Paul Brown is one of the school's alumni. U.S. 30, U.S. 62 and State Routes 21, 172 and 241 serve the city, Interstate 77 passes to the east, and SARTA runs a transit center downtown.
Excellent, quick, and professional service! I highly recommend.
Mervat N. · September 2026
Poactive was very professional and stayed late to repair our springs so there was no problems. Highly recommend!
Robin L. · September 2026 · Spring repair
Fast and honest repair. Great service and advice. Next day service !
Derek G. · September 2026
Very friendly and knowledgeable with our door problems. Clearly able to do work professionally. Highly recommend Proactive!
John M. · September 2026
Installed new door & opener. Great service from initial service appt to installation.
Beth P. · September 2026 · Opener
We called proactive they came on time and great service and wonderful to work with the company
Narsimha K. · September 2026
In most cases, yes. We check the framing and the door’s balance, then install the opener, safety sensors and a wall control.
On a two-spring door we usually recommend it, because the second spring is the same age and close to the same breaking point.
Yes. The city reaches into Perry, Jackson, Tuscarawas and Bethlehem townships, and we serve addresses in all of them.
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Near the towpath or up in Sippo Heights, pick up the phone and a technician heads for your Massillon garage.
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