Milan, Ohio Milan, Ohio Location of Milan, Ohio Location of Milan, Ohio Location of Milan in Erie County Location of Milan in Erie County Milan (pronounced / ma l n/) is a village in Erie and Huron counties in the U.S.
The Erie County portion of Milan is part of the Sandusky Metropolitan Statistical Area, while the Huron County portion is part of the Norwalk Micropolitan Statistical Area.
1.1 1800s and the Milan Canal Milan village was platted by Ebenezer Merry in 1817 on the site of a previously abandoned Moravian Indian mission village, titled "Petquotting", (1805-1809).
Milan village, originally titled 'Beatty', was incorporated as 'Milan' in 1833, in large measure to finance the assembly of the Milan Canal.
Beginning in 1826, small-town investors proposed a ship canal that would make Milan a lake port that could conveniently connect to the new Erie Canal, allowing direct county-wide commerce with New York City.
Construction of the Milan Canal began in 1833 and it opened to lake navigation on July 4, 1839.The peak year of commerce was 1847.
During the canal era, Milan became the place of birth of businessman and inventor Thomas Alva Edison, and the small hillside brick home where he was born on February 11, 1847 is open to the enhance as a exhibition.
He lived in Milan until he was 7 years of age, when his family moved to Port Huron, Michigan.
Local brokerages and trading homes exchanged the agricultural commodities of farmers for currency, hardware, and trade goods brought in athwart Lake Erie from the East by way of the Erie Canal.
The Milan Canal was deep and directly connected to Lake Erie, allowing Lake Erie schooners to transport goods to and from Milan without the use of small, shallow-draft canal boats required on other canals.
The confluence the deep ship-bearing canal, the great agricultural fertility of the county-wide Ohio soils, and the direct access to New York markets by way of the Erie Canal made Milan a retail center from the 1830s to the early 1850s. In 1868, the canal's feeder dam floundered due to a flood, permanently ending Milan's direct connection to the lake.
Today, Milan retains a momentous number of both residences and commercial buildings from the 19th century, representing typical architectural styles of the time.
In the 1840s and 50s, the Greek Revival style predominated in Milan, as it did in the rest of the Connecticut Western Reserve (the northeastern counties of Ohio).
With the threat of proliferating barns s, mid-century canal interests were able to prevent their incursion into Milan.
The Kelley Block on the village square, along with the impressive great homes on all of the village's streets are remarkably preserved.
In 2002, Milan was chose by The National Trust for Historic Preservation as a Distinctive Destination.
Melon farming prospered in the region due to sandy, fertile soil, and Milan hosts the "Milan Melon Festival" annually on Labor Day weekend.
Because of its limited evolution after the closure of the canal, Milan retains the ambiance of a 19th-century village with New England cultural and architectural affinities According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the village has a total region of 1.21 square miles (3.13 km2), of which 1.19 square miles (3.08 km2) are territory and 0.02 square miles (0.05 km2) are water. The ethnic makeup of the village was 97.5% White, 0.7% African American, 0.1% Native American, 0.6% Asian, 0.2% from other competitions, and 0.9% from two or more competitions.
There were 509 homeholds of which 33.6% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 57.6% were married couples living together, 10.2% had a female homeholder with no husband present, 4.9% had a male homeholder with no wife present, and 27.3% were non-families.
23.6% of inhabitants were under the age of 18; 5.8% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 21.2% were from 25 to 44; 32.6% were from 45 to 64; and 16.8% were 65 years of age or older.
The ethnic makeup of the village was 98.13% White, 0.55% African American, 0.21% Native American, 0.35% Asian, 0.28% from other competitions, and 0.48% from two or more competitions.
There were 540 homeholds out of which 33.0% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 60.2% were married couples living together, 10.4% had a female homeholder with no husband present, and 24.8% were non-families.
In the village, the populace was spread out with 24.9% under the age of 18, 6.4% from 18 to 24, 24.6% from 25 to 44, 25.4% from 45 to 64, and 18.8% who were 65 years of age or older.
Milan shares its school fitness with close-by Berlin Heights; the combined school precinct is known as the Edison Local Schools, and the high school squads are the "Edison Chargers." Contained inside the school precinct are Edison Elementary, Edison Middle School, and Edison High School. The village of Milan presently has one global sister city. Milan, Historic Marker on the town square; Sandusky Register-Star-News; 1958 Milan Canal Basin, 1839-1867; Historic Marker #4-22 by Edison Home; The Ohio Historical Society & Milan Historical Society; 1966 List of sister metros/cities in Ohio#Sister metros/cities of Ohio metros/cities and counties Wikivoyage has a travel guide for Milan, Ohio.
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