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By Julie Holiday
Jul 21, 2021
(Cleveland, OH) - When: 11 a.m. Thursday, July 22nd at the Moses Cleaveland statue at Public Square.
Cleveland will have been founded 225 years ago and there’s a wreath laying ceremony, remarks by City Council President Kevin Kelley and other events will take place to celebrate the founding of Cleveland, hosted by the Early Settlers Association of the Western Reserve.
The Early Settlers Association will honor Cleveland Restoration Society President Kathleen H. Crowther as its 2021 recipient of the Herrick Memorial Award, created by the late historian Clay Herrick Jr. to recognize those whose accomplishments have “promoted and brought honor to Cleveland.”
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Carol Rimedio Righetti, Mahoning County commissioner, is shown along West Federal Street in Youngstown in the area where a huge parade, shown above, took place in 1908 on the day the cornerstone of the current Mahoning County Courthouse was put in place.
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YOUNGSTOWN Mahoning County’s earliest history included political intrigue and controversy, as the seat of government started in Canfield in 1846, but moved to Youngstown 30 years later.
From 1873 onward, the county’s governance has been focused on Youngstown.
Bill Lawson, Mahoning Valley Historical Society executive director, noted historic highlights to mark the county’s 175th anniversary during a recent presentation to the Mahoning County commissioners.
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Listener Anne Skove points out there are a lot of cities and counties in Ohio that share a name. You ve got Hamilton County, which doesn t have Hamilton the city in it. There s Montgomery County, but there s a Montgomery here (in Hamilton County). Warren is way off on the other side of the state, and there s a Warren County, but they re nowhere near each other.
Her theory: famous people get things named after them. Washington State and Washington D.C. are nowhere near each other either, but you know, Washington. Famous, she says.
It s not a bad theory. Steve Lucht is curator at Dayton History. Pretty much all the major cities in Ohio are not named after places. They re named after people.