LAKE COUNTY OHIO
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COUNTY INFORMATION
1895 Map of Ohio
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Map modified with permission of Ray Sterner from http://fermi.jhuapl.edu/states
DATE CREATED
1840
PARENT COUNTY
Geauga, Cuyahoga
COUNTY SEAT
Painesville
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MAGGIE'S SKELETON CLOSET AKA PLACES TO SEEK YOUR ANCESTORS |
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Probate Court-Judge
47 N Park Pl.
Painesville, OH 44077-0490
440-350-2657
Lake County Court of Common Pleas Clerk
Painesville, OH 44077
Lake County General Health
105 Main St, Painesville, OH 44077
440-946-2829
Lake County Health District
105 Main St, Painesville, OH 44077
440-350-2554
Morley Library
184 Phelps St, Painesville, OH 44077
440-352-3383
Fairport Public Library
335 Vine St, Fairport Harbor, OH 44077
440-354-8191
Lake County Historical Society
8610 King Memorial Road
Mentor, OH 44060
440-255-8979
Lake County Chapter OGS
Morley Public Library
184 Phelps Street
Painesville, OH 44077-3927
440-352-3383
OTHER INFORMATION
Lake county is the smallest of Ohio's 88 counties. Bordering Lake Erie, the county has a productive soil for fruit orchards and nurseries.
The county was first settled by New Englanders who developed Painesville, the county seat. Kirtland, near the county seat, was the headquarters of Joseph Smith and the Church of Jesus Christ Latter-Day Saints. The first Morman Church was built here in 1833.
Major industries in Lake County include; chemicals, textiles, rubber, metals, machinery, instruments, cement, rayon, greenhouse and nursery products and salt.
Clerk of Courts has civil court records from 1840. Probate Court has marriage, death & early birth records. Court of Common Pleas has divorce records.
INFORMATIONAL LINKS
Bibliography (Includes detailed sources for all the information on this and the connected pages.) |
Hixson Plat Maps, Ohio Townships W. W. Hixson & Company, Rockford, Illinois
(These plat maps were published without dates or copyright notice,
but are believed to be from the 1920s and 1930s. The W. W. Hixson
Company published an Ohio Atlas around 1925 with individual County
maps and Township plat maps.) |
Vital Statistics (Includes Birth, Death, Marriage, Divorce, Land, Will & Estate Records.) This is an area
that explains where to look for vital records in the state of Ohio. |
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