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History of Geauga County
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Highlights of Geauga County History
1700-1799: A County is Born
1794
General Anthony Wayne defeats the Native Americans at the
Battle of Fallen Timbers
opening Ohio to Euro-American settlement.
1795
Native Americans give most of Ohio for settlement in the
Treaty of Greeneville
.
1796
General Moses Cleaveland
leads surveying party into northeastern Ohio.
1797
Trappers come to
Middlefield
.
1798
First settlement in Geauga County at
Burton
.
1800-1849: A County is Born
1803
Ohio
becomes the 17th state.
Erie Literary Society founded in
Burton, Ohio
1805
December 31:
Geauga County
created by Ohio General Assembly.
1806
Geauga County
courts began meeting in New Market (near modern day Painesville).
1807
Construction begins on Old State Road.
1808
A wilderness on a hill is designated
Geauga's
Seat of Justice. The area was within
one mile of the geographical center of the county and was named Chardon after
its landowner, Boston entrepreneur
Peter Chardon Brooks
.
1810
Geauga County Commissioners
appropriated $50.00 to construct a road from Painesville
to Chardon. Today, it is known as Ravenna Road.
1811
Samuel Phelps
, County Director, purchased 96 lots from
Peter Chardon Brooks
for $400.00 and the Commissioners appropriated $61.87 to hire men to chop
down all the trees on what became
Chardon Square
.
1812
Chardon is founded and a log cabin courthouse is built on
Chardon Square
.
1813
King Courthouse, costing $600.00, is built near
Chardon Square
.
1822
Eber Howe begins publishing the
Painesville Telegraph
newspaper.
1823
March 18: Benjamin Wright, Jr sentenced to be hanged by the neck until dead
on the third Thursday in May for the stabbing death of Zophar Warner.
October:
First Geauga County Fair
held in Chardon on the Square.
1824
A Colonial-style Courthouse was built on Main Street where Lawyers' Title and Court Street are today.
1831
Mormons
migrate from New York to
Kirtland, Geauga County, Ohio
.
1838
Mormons migrate out of
Kirtland
.
1840
Lake County
created from northern
Geauga County
.
1850-1899: A Time of Change
1853
Geauga County Fair
moves to H.H.FORD property creating Burton Fairgrounds.
1856
Railroad transportation begins in
Geauga County
1858
Union Chapel
aka "Free Speech Chapel" is built.
1868
July: The Great Fire destroys main street Chardon.
1869
Construction on the current courthouse begins.
1873
Geauga County Historical Society
formed.
1874
Newbury Woman's Suffrage Political Club organized.
1876
Centennial Oak planted in
Newbury
by the Newbury Woman's Suffrage Poltical Club.
1877-1878
Civil War veteran
Pace Latham
serves as President of the
Geauga County Fair
.
1884
Fair Board purchases fairgrounds in
Burton
.
1886
Inventor of aluminum electrolytic smelting process,
Charles M. Hall
is born in
Thompson
.
The Amish settle predominately in
Middlefield Township
.
1889-1890
Domestic Arts Hall and Flower Hall at the Burton fairgrounds rebuilt. Both buildings are added to the
National Register of Historic Places
in 1979.
1899
Maple Leaf Route of the
Cleveland and Eastern Interurban
begins service to
Geauga County
.
1900-1949: A New Century
1913
Beginning of
4-H Clubs in Geauga County
.
1925
Taborville
is established as a summer camp for Cleveland Czechoslovakian Gymnastics Unions.
1926
Annual Geauga County Maple Festival
begins.
1929
End of
Interurban
in*nbsp;
Geauga County
.
1935
Geauga County Commissioners
obtain ownership of the fairgrounds.
1938
Geauga County Fair Band
premiers.
Geauga County Historical Museum aka
"Century Village"
dedicated.
Thompson Ledges
becomes first official township park in the county.
1947
Geauga County Fair awarded Myers Y. Cooper Trophy for Outstanding Fair.
1950-1999: Toward the Future
1953
Geauga County Flag is chosen.
1959
ASM Geodesic Dome
completed. ASM Headquarters and Dome added to
National Register of Historic Places
in 2009.
1960
Fair's name is changed to
The Great Geauga County Fair
.
1961
Geauga County
receives the Ohio Fair Managers Association Award for Excellence.
1974
The Courthouse Square District, Burton Village Historical District, Claridon Congregational Church and the Hathaway Lot Houseare added to the National Register of Historic Places.
1975
[Doctor Erastus]
Goodwin House
is added to the National Register of Historic Places.
1976
Kent State University-Geauga
opens for classes on Clarion-Troy Road.
Free Will Baptist Church of Auburn
is added to the National Register of Historic Places.
1982
Chester Township District School No. 2
added to the National Register of Historic Places.
1987
Batavia House
added to the National Register of Historic Places.
2000-present: Entering the Twenty-First Century
2002
Fowlers Mill Historic District
added to the National Register of Historic Places.
2003
Ohio Bicentennial
.
2006
Geauga County Bicentennial and Celebration
2008
Chardon Post Office Building
added to National Register of Historic Places.
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Updated June 22, 2015
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