Ohio Counties
Adams
Historical Collections of Ohio
By Henry Howe
Vol. II
©1888
LORAIN COUNTY
Page 118
Lorain County was
formed December 26, 1822, from Huron, Cuyahoga and Medina. The surface is level, and the soil
fertile and generally clayey.
Parallel with the lake shore are three sand ridges, which vary from 40
to 150 rods in width; they are respectively about 3, 7 and 9 miles from the
lake, and are fertile. Area about
500 square miles. In 1887 the acres
cultivated were 110,032; in pasture, 106,403; woodland, 37,191; lying waste,
2,817; produced in wheat, 324,480 bushels; rye, 1,346; buckwheat, 104; oats,
763,875; barley, 6,405; corn, 423,270; broom-corn, 500 lbs. brush; meadow hay,
47,843 tons; clover hay, 2, 434; flax 34,100 lbs. fibre; potatoes, 115,446
bushels; butter, 843,460 lbs.; cheese, 3,233,589 (the greatest in the State);
sorghum, 1,433 gallons; maple sugar, 54,786 lbs.; honey, 5,020 lbs.; eggs,
422,855 dozen; grapes, 1,259,200 lbs.; wine, 334 gallons; sweet potatoes, 1,009
bushels; apples, 72,312; peaches, 14,308; pears, 833; wool, 121,809 lbs.; milch
cows owned, 15,171, next to Ashtabula County, largest in the state. School census, 1888, 11,418; teachers,
345. Miles of railroad track, 179.
|
Township And Census |
1840 |
1880 |
|
Township And Census |
1840 |
1880 |
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Amherst, |
1,186 |
3,259 |
|
Huntington, |
743 |
767 |
|
Avon, |
1,211 |
2,067 |
|
La Grange, |
991 |
1,429 |
|
Black River, |
668 |
1,937 |
|
Penfield, |
405 |
735 |
|
Brighton, |
999 |
517 |
|
Pittsfield, |
704 |
976 |
|
Brownhelm, |
934 |
1,497 |
|
Ridgeville, |
818 |
1,660 |
|
Camden, |
504 |
968 |
|
Rochester, |
487 |
733 |
|
Carlisle, |
1,094 |
1,329 |
|
Russia, |
1,302 |
4,376 |
|
Columbia, |
876 |
906 |
|
Sheffield, |
521 |
1,046 |
|
Eaton, |
764 |
1,161 |
|
Sullivan, |
782 |
|
|
Elyria, |
1,636 |
5,648 |
|
Troy, |
289 |
|
|
Grafton, |
713 |
1,237 |
|
Wellington, |
781 |
2,384 |
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Henrietta, |
743 |
894 |
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|
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Population of
Lorain in 1830, 5,696; 1840, 18,451; 1860, 29,744; 1880, 35,526, of whom 22,448
were born in Ohio; 2,717 York; 668 Pennsylvania; 225 Virginia; 115 Indiana; 99
Kentucky; 2,819 in German Empire; 1,759 England and Wales; 767 Ireland; 458
British America; 172 Scotland; 76 France, and 33 Sweden and Norway. Census, 1890, 40,295.
There was found in
this county, a few years since, a curious ancient relic, which is best
described in the Lorain Republican,
of June 7, 1843:
"In
connection with our friend, Mr. L. M. Parsons, we have procured to views of
sketches of the engravings upon a stone column or idol, found upon the farm of
Mr. Alfred Lamb, in Brighton, in this county, in 1838. The following is a side view of the
pillar or column.
"It was found
about three-fourths of a mile from Mr. Lamb's house, covered with a thick coat
of moss. Upon three different
places are engraved the figures 1533.
The horns represented are now broken off, but their place is easily
defined. A flat stone, eight inches
in diameter and one and a half inches thick, was found beneath this column, on
removing it from its erect position, upon which the figures 1533 were
discovered also engraved. Another
stone was found about ten feet distant, of like quality. It was about six inches long and three
in diameter (6 sided), supported by three pillars about three inches long, of
pyramidal form. No marks or tools
were upon it. Upon the top part of
the first mentioned pillars,
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above shown, was an engraving of a vessel
under full sail, in form, as near as now can be ascertained, as herein. The engraving was most unfortunately
nearly obliterated by the boys cracking hickory-nuts upon it. These are about all the facts connected
with these curious relics which have come to our knowledge."