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Lorain County Historical
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Early History of Lorain County

Civil War Era Letters  -  This link has 14 handwritten civil war era letters written to Emargene, Emegene, or Gene Starr who lived in Penfield Lorain County, Ohio, transcribed by Al Leiby.

Lorain Native Americans

Native American Genealogy
 
Postcards of Lorain posted by Mary Kocak
 
Elyria Necrology 1920 - Elyria City Deaths, 1920, posted by Joan LaLonde  

Elyria Fire of 1873 posted by Richard Kurish
Twenty –Two Different Business Departments and Eleven Offices, besides one of the Finest Public Libraries in the State, Destroyed!



GENERAL LINKS OF LORAIN COUNTY INTEREST

         Bates Family Members at Rustico

          Chapter Thirteen: What Really Happened at Gore Orphanage  by Bill Ellis
        This link takes you to info about the book and links to obtain the publication.  
         It is also available at Ritter Library,
  5680 Liberty Ave. Vermilion , OH 

           Historical Collections Of Ohio :  Page 312  Surnames mentioned:  Parsons;  Page 313                      Surnames mentioned:  Lamb, Parsons;  Page 314 Surnames mentioned:  Ely;  Page 315                      Surnames mentioned:  Oberlin;  Page 316 Surnames mentioned:  Oberlin, Shipherd, Street,                 Hughes, Mahan, Finney, Morgan;  Page 580 Page 604

        Lake Erie Shipwreck Map "B" and Index.  Showing the location of the "Leo" at position             B86. The place where Lawler yacht sank in 1889.

           
Law Certificate of Charles R. Brown, 1856

        Train Wreck in Lagrange, Ohio on December 27, 1911

        Train Wreck (4 images)
       
         USS Lorain


AVON

        Century Homes Of Avon, Ohio
         
       Baldauf House (1845) at corner of Kinzel and Center Roads
                
Clemens Alten House (about 1850) at 36976 Detroit Road 
                
Dewitt C. Moon House (1847) at 39016 Detroit Road               
                     George Sweet House (1820) at 32345 Detroit Road
                     Gibbs - Binns House (behind Alten - Casper House) at 36840 Detroit Road
                     Johannes Nagle House (1843) at corner of Nagle and Schwartz Roads
                     Lewis House (1843) at 1591 Center Road
                     Matthias Alten House (about 1850) at (Alten - Casper House), 36840 Detroit Road       
                Ora Butler Cahoon House (1845) at 37821 Detroit Road
                     Peter Schwartz House (1845) at 34745 Schwartz Road
                     Wilbur Cahoon House (1826) at 2940 Stoney Ridge Road
                     William E. Hurst House ("Stone Eagle Farm") (1843) at 33065 Detroit Road
                Williams House (1836) at 37392 Detroit Road
               
         Historical Sketch of Avon, Ohio to 1974 by Taylor J. Smith


HUNTINGTON


        Surnames mentioned on page 278: Sheldon, Griswold, Cowles, Kent, Sage, Skinner,
                Bowles, Laborie, Brainard, Chase, Darry, Kelsey, Preston.

        Surnames mentioned on page 279:  Howard, Laborie, Bliss, Cook, Cole, Williams, Sage,                         Rice, Munson, Crosby, Case, Rising, Tillotson, Hickok, Ferris, Culver, Barker, Banning,                     Mallory, Royce, Kelsey, Rogers, North, Lewis, Chapman, Lang, Hart, Fitch, Wright,
                Horr, Lukins, Viles, Root, Walker, Cone, Phelon, Haskell, Babcock, West, Lindsey.

        Surnames mentioned on page 280:  Phelon, Tillotson, Rising, Laborie, Banning, Sage,                             Johnson, Tracy, Lang, Humphrey, Hart, Munson, Close, Culver, Rogers, Taylor, Cone,                     Carpenter, Gibbs, Messenger, Parks, Whiton, Horr, Lang, Haines, Burrell, Perkins, Case,                 Ferris, Hickok, Chapman, West, Burrell, Newton, Griggs, Haskell, Smith, Clark, Murray.
        Surnames mentioned on page 281:  Murray, Cann, June, Haskins, Snow, Rogers, Nooney,                     Clark, Haskell, Reynolds, Thompson, Matlock, Foot, Hartley, Reeder, Hurd, Richards,                     Haldeman, Ward, Pepper, Card, Guard, Dunbar, Waite, Safford, Spafford, Smith,                             Chapman, Niles, Johnson, Pierce, Newton, Simmons, Matthews, Mack, Wait, Freeman,                     Hill, Becknell, Skinner, Dimick, Farnsworth, Alfred, Goodrich, Woodworth, Smith,                             Bowker, Fox, Griggs, West, Mead, Lang, Boice, Taylor, Perkins, Sage, Mahan, Talcott,                     Abel, Burnell, Tillotson, Andrews, Wilbur, Ferris, Foote, Young, Quigley, Conant.
       
Surnames mentioned on page 282:   Clark, Pritchard, Green, Paige, Stewart, Elder,
                Bigelow, Burtch, Chapman, Sage, Loveland, Banning, Hickok, Rising, Parker, Culver,                         Laborie, Horr, Warner, Snow, Lang, Case, Kelsey, Ferris, Galehouse, Barker, Goss,                         Parmelee, Welcher, Finn, Rudd, Smith, Taylor, Perkins, Lang, Whitney, Woodworth,                         Monroe.

       
NORTH  RIDGEVILLE

        
A Brief History Of North Ridgeville by Jeff Sigsworth     

OBERLIN
       
Historic Documents On-Line [Electronic Oberlin Group]
                
Covenant Of The Oberlin Colony, 1833
                First Annual Report of the Oberlin Collegiate Institute (1834) (PDF)  
                Letter Sent by Oberlin College to Raise Money from British Abolitionists, 1840
             Letters About Traveling to Oberlin in the 1830's

                Pastoral Letter by John J. Shipherd (1835)
                Prospectus for the Oberlin Collegiate Institute, 1833
               
        Historical Images of Downtown Oberlin
        The Court Records of Charles M. Hall, 1891

SHEFFIELD
        Sheffield History, 1799 - 1950
        Sheffield History, 1950 - 2008


      

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