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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)

Populated Places

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)
  

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