Talk:Lorain County, Ohio

Historical Books
These references were removed from the main page and parked here until they can be placed in pages for their perspective cities/townships:


 * Early History of Elyria and Her People by A.R. Webber (Elyria, Ohio: Caxton Press, 1930).
 * Reminiscences of Elyria, Ohio Mary B. Hall (Elyria, Ohio: Lorain County Historical Society, 1900).
 * A Pioneer History of Camden Township Written in the 1930s by local doctor F. E. Weeks, this is a series of short biographies of many Camden families. Primarily taken from oral interviews of older residents. Some families have extensive genealogies included. A very useful, if not always accurate source.
 * Lorain County Ohio Biographies User entered biographies, many from "A Standard History of Lorain County, Ohio..." v. 2, by G. Frederick Wright, Lewis Pub. Co.

Lee T Hawkins 00:24, 13 August 2011 (UTC)

Places/Localities
The sections below were removed in lieu of the county template. This can be removed once pages are created for these places. LeeTHawkins 12:57, 23 August 2011 (UTC)

Cities

 * Amherst
 * Avon
 * Avon Lake
 * Elyria
 * Lorain (formerly Charleston)
 * North Ridgeville
 * Oberlin
 * Sheffield Lake
 * Vermilion (eastern part) (formerly Harbortown)

Villages

 * Grafton (formerly Rawsonville)
 * Kipton
 * LaGrange
 * Rochester
 * Sheffield
 * South Amherst
 * Wellington (exempted)

Townships
All of the original townships in the county according to its present boundaries are listed below, along with their current name and/or the incorporated municipality that absorbed them in parenthesis. Townships that are completely absorbed are now defunct. These township names are still used in county land records.


 * Amherst (partially absorbed by part of the city of Amherst and the village of South Amherst) Includes locality of Whiskeyville.
 * Avon (completely absorbed by the cities of Avon and Avon Lake)
 * Black River (completely absorbed as part of the city of Lorain) Includes locality of Beaver Park.
 * Brighton Includes locality of Brighton.
 * Brownhelm (partially absorbed by parts of the cities of Lorain and Vermilion) Includes localities of Brownhelm and Brownhelm Station.
 * Camden (partially absorbed by the village of Kipton) Includes locality of Camden.
 * Carlisle (partially absorbed by part of the city of Elyria) Includes locality of LaPorte.
 * Columbia Includes localities of Beebetown, Columbia Center, Columbia Hills Corners, and Columbia Station.
 * Eaton (partially absorbed by part of the city of Elyria and part of the village of Grafton) Includes localities of Eaton, Eaton Estates, and North Eaton.
 * Elyria (partially absorbed by part of the city of Elyria) Includes locality of Vincent.
 * Grafton (partially absorbed by part of the village of Grafton) Includes localities of Belden and Erhart.
 * Henrietta Includes locality of Henrietta.
 * Huntington Includes locality of Huntington.
 * LaGrange (partially absorbed by the village of LaGrange)
 * Penfield Includes locality of Penfield.
 * Pittsfield (partially absorbed by part of the city of Oberlin) Includes locality of Pittsfield.
 * Ridgeville (completely absorbed by the city of North Ridgeville) Includes locality of Fields.
 * Rochester (partially absorbed by the village of Rochester) Includes localities of Bakers Crossing, Rochester Center, and Semples.
 * Russia (renamed to New Russia, partially absorbed by part of the city of Oberlin)
 * Sheffield (partially absorbed by parts of the city of Lorain, the entirety of the city of Sheffield Lake, and the village of Sheffield) Includes locality of Vincent.
 * Wellington (partially concurrent with exempted village of Wellington)