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i have lived here, for 7 yrs now and i had always heard the settlement, was at the square,
then i found a mention of where it really was, and wouldn't you know it, the elyria pd sits on it.
i checked and as far as i can find out, no one, excavated the land for artifacts, so all that history
of the town is lost. shame shame, but they always want to stop us from digging, go figure
what do ya think, would they let me digg with a jack hammer lol
A. epd
B. east falls of the east branch of black river/settlement
C. round the turn is west falls branch of black river
some history
Connecticut eventually sold the Western Reserve to the Connecticut Land Company for $1,200,000.
Justin Ely, a member of the company, became the owner of a large chunk of the land in northeastern Ohio.
Early in 1817, Ely traveled from Massachusetts to his land with a party of six and established a small
settlement in the forest a short distance above the east falls of the Black River. This settlement would
later grow into what is now Elyria, Ohio. In 1796, the Connecticut Land Company sent out surveyors to
begin to partition the land into 5 square mile townships. The Native Americans in the region were
displaced and re-located so that the survey work could be completed in 1805, two years after Ohio became
a state. On July 4th of this year the Ottawas, Wyandots, Chippewas, Shawnees, Delawares and Pottawatamie
s signed the Treaty of Fort Industry, where they turned over their homelands west of the Cuyahoga River
for $20,000 worth of goods. In 1817, surveyors mapped the Black River township containing the City of
Lorain followed by the formation of the Elyria township in 1819. Lorain County was officially
established in 1822. Elyria’s central location, in addition to Ely’s promise to furnish a jail and donate
$2000 towards a permanent courthouse, led to its establishment as the county seat. Ely named the county
after the Province of Lorraine, France, an area that he remembered fondly. The county was officially
organized two years later when records of the County Recorder began.
more history
http://www.noaca.org/REC.HTML
http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2003/02/23/loc_ohiodate0223.html
the park where several indian camps were
nice for being in the city
http://hikingohioparks.com/cascade-elywoods-park-hiking-ohio-parks.html
then i found a mention of where it really was, and wouldn't you know it, the elyria pd sits on it.
i checked and as far as i can find out, no one, excavated the land for artifacts, so all that history
of the town is lost. shame shame, but they always want to stop us from digging, go figure
what do ya think, would they let me digg with a jack hammer lol
A. epd
B. east falls of the east branch of black river/settlement
C. round the turn is west falls branch of black river
some history
Connecticut eventually sold the Western Reserve to the Connecticut Land Company for $1,200,000.
Justin Ely, a member of the company, became the owner of a large chunk of the land in northeastern Ohio.
Early in 1817, Ely traveled from Massachusetts to his land with a party of six and established a small
settlement in the forest a short distance above the east falls of the Black River. This settlement would
later grow into what is now Elyria, Ohio. In 1796, the Connecticut Land Company sent out surveyors to
begin to partition the land into 5 square mile townships. The Native Americans in the region were
displaced and re-located so that the survey work could be completed in 1805, two years after Ohio became
a state. On July 4th of this year the Ottawas, Wyandots, Chippewas, Shawnees, Delawares and Pottawatamie
s signed the Treaty of Fort Industry, where they turned over their homelands west of the Cuyahoga River
for $20,000 worth of goods. In 1817, surveyors mapped the Black River township containing the City of
Lorain followed by the formation of the Elyria township in 1819. Lorain County was officially
established in 1822. Elyria’s central location, in addition to Ely’s promise to furnish a jail and donate
$2000 towards a permanent courthouse, led to its establishment as the county seat. Ely named the county
after the Province of Lorraine, France, an area that he remembered fondly. The county was officially
organized two years later when records of the County Recorder began.
more history
http://www.noaca.org/REC.HTML
http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2003/02/23/loc_ohiodate0223.html
the park where several indian camps were
nice for being in the city
http://hikingohioparks.com/cascade-elywoods-park-hiking-ohio-parks.html
