Leavittsburg is a
census-designated place
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in
Trumbull County
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,
Ohio
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, United States. The population was 1,571 at the
2020 census. Located directly west of
Warren, Ohio
Warren is a city in and the county seat of Trumbull County, Ohio, United States. Located in northeastern Ohio, Warren lies approximately northwest of Youngstown and southeast of Cleveland. The population was 39,201 at the 2020 census. The his ...
, it is part of the
Youngstown–Warren metropolitan area.
History
Leavittsburg is named for the Leavitt family of
Suffield, Connecticut
Suffield is a town in Hartford County, Connecticut, Hartford County, Connecticut, United States. It was once within the boundaries of Massachusetts. The town is located in the Connecticut River Valley with the town of Enfield, Connecticut, Enfiel ...
, a prominent early mercantile New England family originally from
Hingham, Massachusetts
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.
Thaddeus Leavitt
Thaddeus Leavitt (September 9, 1750 – 1826) was an American merchant who invented an improved upon version of the cotton gin, as well as joining with seven other Connecticut men to purchase most of the three-million-plus acres of the Weste ...
Esq. was one of the eight original purchasers of the
Western Reserve
The Connecticut Western Reserve was a portion of land claimed by the Colony of Connecticut and later by the state of Connecticut in what is now mostly the northeastern region of Ohio. The Reserve had been granted to the Colony under the terms o ...
lands from the state of Connecticut. (Leavitt and Suffield businessmen
Oliver Phelps
Oliver Phelps (October 21, 1749February 21, 1809) was early in life a tavern keeper in Granville, Massachusetts. During the Revolution he was Deputy Commissary of the Continental Army and served until the end of the war. After the war ended, h ...
,
Gideon Granger
Gideon Granger (July 19, 1767 – December 31, 1822) was an early American politician and lawyer. He was the father of fellow Postmaster General and U.S. Representative Francis Granger.
Early life
Granger was born in Suffield, Connecticut on ...
, Luther Loomis and Asahel Hatheway owned between them one-quarter of all the lands in the
Western Reserve
The Connecticut Western Reserve was a portion of land claimed by the Colony of Connecticut and later by the state of Connecticut in what is now mostly the northeastern region of Ohio. The Reserve had been granted to the Colony under the terms o ...
assigned to Connecticut.) Leavitt was married to Elizabeth King, the daughter of William King and Lucy (Hatheway), two prominent Suffield families. Leavitt had a fleet of ships that traded as far afield as the
British West Indies
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and was a
selectman for the town of Suffield. He was also the inventor of an early
cotton gin
A cotton gin—meaning "cotton engine"—is a machine that quickly and easily separates cotton fibers from their seeds, enabling much greater productivity than manual cotton separation.. Reprinted by McGraw-Hill, New York and London, 1926 (); a ...
.
Humphrey H. Leavitt, a
U.S. congressman
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from Ohio born in Suffield, was a member of this family, as was
John Leavitt
Deacon John Leavitt (1608–1691) was a tailor, public officeholder, and founding deacon of Old Ship Church in Hingham, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, the only remaining 17th-century Puritan meeting house in America and the oldest church in cont ...
, the owner of the first inn in Warren. Another member of the extended family was
Henry Leavitt Ellsworth
Henry Leavitt Ellsworth (November 10, 1791 – December 27, 1858) was a Yale-educated attorney who became the first Commissioner of the U.S. Patent Office, where he encouraged innovation by inventors Samuel F.B. Morse and Samuel Colt. Ellswo ...
who traveled to Ohio in 1811 to investigate family lands in the region. (Ellsworth's father
Oliver Ellsworth
Oliver Ellsworth (April 29, 1745 – November 26, 1807) was a Founding Father of the United States, attorney, jurist, politician, and diplomat. Ellsworth was a framer of the United States Constitution, United States senator from Connecticut ...
had purchased over in the Western Reserve, including most of present-day
Cleveland
Cleveland ( ), officially the City of Cleveland, is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Cuyahoga County. Located in the northeastern part of the state, it is situated along the southern shore of Lake Erie, across the U.S. ...
.) The resulting volume was entitled ''A Tour to New Connecticut in 1811'', and was published later after the manuscript was discovered in the Yale University library. A young Yale graduate of 19 when he made his first trip to New Connecticut (Ohio), Ellsworth went on to make several more trips to the west. Author
Washington Irving
Washington Irving (April 3, 1783 – November 28, 1859) was an American short-story writer, essayist, biographer, historian, and diplomat of the early 19th century. He is best known for his short stories "Rip Van Winkle" (1819) and " The Legen ...
accompanied Ellsworth on a subsequent trip over 20 years later, calling his journal ''A Tour on the Prairies''.
A
post office
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with the name Leavittsburgh was established March 15, 1864; the spelling was amended to Leavittsburg with effect from July 19, 1893. Leavittsburg was designated as the market town of Trumbull County, but
Warren
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supplanted Leavittsburg, which remains mostly woodland.
Geography
Leavittsburg is located at (41.245024, -80.877070).
According to the
United States Census Bureau
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, the CDP has a total area of , of which is land and (3.47%) is water.
Demographics
As of the
census
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of 2000, there were 2,200 people, 811 households, and 606 families residing in the CDP. The
population density
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was 1,319.2 people per square mile (508.6/km
2). There were 860 housing units at an average density of 515.7/sq mi (198.8/km
2). The racial makeup of the CDP was 99.00%
White
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, 0.36%
African American
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, 0.32%
Native American, 0.09% from
other races
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, and 0.23% from two or more races.
Hispanic
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or
Latino
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of any race were 0.91% of the population.
There were 811 households, out of which 32.2% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 58.0% were
married couples
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living together, 12.2% had a female householder with no husband present, and 25.2% were non-families. 21.2% of all households were made up of individuals, and 9.5% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.71 and the average family size was 3.14.
In the CDP the population was spread out, with 26.4% under the age of 18, 8.0% from 18 to 24, 28.3% from 25 to 44, 25.3% from 45 to 64, and 12.0% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 37 years. For every 100 females there were 96.3 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 97.8 males.
The median income for a household in the CDP was $37,031, and the median income for a family was $42,150. Males had a median income of $31,250 versus $21,472 for females. The
per capita income
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Per capita i ...
for the CDP was $16,572. About 8.4% of families and 8.9% of the population were below the
poverty line
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, including 8.2% of those under age 18 and 10.9% of those age 65 or over.
Education
Children in Leavittsburg are served by the LaBrae Local School District. The name LaBrae is a combination of the names Leavittsburg and Braceville, two separate school districts which were merged in 1970 to form the new school district.
The name was suggested by a local student. The current schools serving Leavittsburg are:
*Bascom Elementary School – grades K-2
*LaBrae Intermediate School – grades 3-5
*LaBrae Middle School – grades 6-8
*
LaBrae High School
LaBrae High School is a public high school in Leavittsburg, Ohio. It is the only high school in the LaBrae Local School District. Their mascot is the Vikings. LaBrae's school colors are scarlet and grey.
Sports
LaBrae offers the following sports ...
– grades 9-12
References
External links
School website
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Census-designated places in Trumbull County, Ohio