Painesville is a city in and the
county seat
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of
Lake County,
Ohio
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, United States,
located along the
Grand River northeast of
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. ...
. Its population was 19,563 at the
2010 census.
Painesville is the home of
Lake Erie College
Lake Erie College is a Private university, private liberal arts college in Painesville, Ohio. Founded in 1856 as a female seminary, the college converted to a coeducational institution in 1985. As of the 2016–2017 Academic term, academic year, ...
,
Morley Library
Morley Library, located at 184 Phelps St. in Painesville, Ohio serves as the County District Library for Lake County, Ohio. Morley Library is a medium-sized public library that is supported by both state funds and a local tax levy. The original l ...
, and the Historic Downtown Painesville Recreation Area.
History
Painesville was settled shortly after the
Revolutionary War. It was still considered part of the
Connecticut 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 of ...
. General
Edward Paine
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History
The name Edward was very popular in Anglo-Sax ...
(1746–1841), a native of
Bolton, Connecticut
Bolton ( ) is a small suburban town in Tolland County, Connecticut, United States. It is primarily residential with an economy made up mostly of small businesses. The high school typically has between fifty and one hundred students per grade. The p ...
, who had served as a captain in the Connecticut
militia
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during the war, and John Walworth arrived in 1800 with a party of sixty-six settlers, among the first in the Western Reserve. General Paine later represented the region in the territorial legislature of the
Northwest Territory
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.
In 1800 the Western Reserve became Trumbull County and at the first Court of Quarter Sessions, the county was divided into eight
townships
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Although the term is occasionally associated with an urban area, that tends to be an exception to the rule. In Australia, Ca ...
. The smallest of these townships was named Painesville, for General Paine, and encompassed what later became the townships of Perry, Leroy, Hambden, Concord, Chardon, Mentor, and Kirtland. The township government was organized in 1802. The post office in Painesville was opened in 1803 with John Walworth as postmaster.
In what was to become the commercial center of the township was a settlement called Oak Openings, its name being descriptive of the scrub oaks and sandy soil. It was here in 1805 that Gen. Henry Champion laid out a village plat and called it Champion, a name that it carried only until incorporation in 1832, when the name "Painesville" was chosen in honor of General Paine. Two of his descendants,
Eleazer A. Paine
Eleazer Arthur Paine (September 10, 1815 – December 16, 1882) was an American lawyer, author and a Union officer from Ohio. He provoked controversy as a brigadier general in the Union Army during the American Civil War, while commanding occ ...
and
Halbert E. Paine
Halbert Eleazer Paine (February 4, 1826April 14, 1905) was an American lawyer and Republican politician. He served as a Union Army general during the American Civil War, and after the war was elected to three terms in the United States House of ...
, later served as
Union Army
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generals during the
American Civil War
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.
![Edward Paine Statue in 2008](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a1/Edward_Paine_Statue_in_2008.jpg)
In 1840 Lake County was created from portions of Geauga and Cuyahoga Counties, and Painesville was made the county seat and a courthouse erected. In 1852, the community of Painesville became a village, and in 1902 the village attained city status.
Geography
Painesville is located at (41.722793, -81.249597).
According to the
United States Census Bureau
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, the city has a total area of , of which are land and , or 2.59%, are water.
Painesville
Painesville is a city in and the county seat of Lake County, Ohio, Lake County, Ohio, United States, located along the Grand River (Ohio), Grand River northeast of Cleveland. Its population was 19,563 at the 2010 United States Census, 2010 cens ...
and
Concord
Concord may refer to:
Meaning "agreement"
* Pact or treaty, frequently between nations (indicating a condition of harmony)
* Harmony, in music
* Agreement (linguistics), a change in the form of a word depending on grammatical features of other ...
townships, along with the village of
Fairport Harbor
Fairport Harbor is a village in Lake County, Ohio, United States, along Lake Erie at the mouth of the Grand River. The population was 3,109 at the 2010 census.
Fairport Harbor is home to two lighthouses: the Fairport Harbor West Breakwater Li ...
and the city of
Mentor
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, are adjacent to Painesville.
Climate
Painesville has a hybrid between a
humid subtropical
A humid subtropical climate is a zone of climate characterized by hot and humid summers, and cool to mild winters. These climates normally lie on the southeast side of all continents (except Antarctica), generally between latitudes 25° and 40° ...
and
humid continental climate
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(
Köppen Köppen is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include:
* Bernd Köppen (born 1951), German pianist and composer
* Carl Köppen (1833-1907), German military advisor in Meiji era Japan
* Edlef Köppen (1893–1939), German author and ...
''Cfa/Dfa''). In spite of the mild winter days,
lake-effect snow
Lake-effect snow is produced during cooler atmospheric conditions when a cold air mass moves across long expanses of warmer lake water. The lower layer of air, heated up by the lake water, picks up water vapor from the lake and rises up through ...
usually brings a lot of accumulation in winter. Summers have warm days and quite muggy nights. Precipitation is high year-round.
Demographics
Painesville's Hispanic population increased elevenfold between 1990 and 2010. New residents were primarily immigrants from
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, the ninth-largest metropolitan region in Mexico. They had settled in Painesville after finding work in its
plant nurseries
A nursery is a place where plants are propagated and grown to a desired size. Mostly the plants concerned are for gardening, forestry or conservation biology, rather than agriculture. They include retail nurseries, which sell to the general p ...
.
2010 census
As of the
census
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of 2010, there were 19,563 people, 7,095 households, and 4,381 families living in the city. The
population density
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was . There were 7,867 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the city was 68.2%
White
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, 13.1%
African American
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, 0.3%
Native American, 0.8%
Asian
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* Items from or related to the continent of Asia:
** Asian people, people in or descending from Asia
** Asian culture, the culture of the people from Asia
** Asian cuisine, food based on the style of food of the people from Asi ...
, 13.2% from
other races
Other often refers to:
* Other (philosophy), a concept in psychology and philosophy
Other or The Other may also refer to:
Film and television
* ''The Other'' (1913 film), a German silent film directed by Max Mack
* ''The Other'' (1930 film), a ...
, and 4.5% from two or more races.
Hispanic
The term ''Hispanic'' ( es, hispano) refers to people, Spanish culture, cultures, or countries related to Spain, the Spanish language, or Hispanidad.
The term commonly applies to countries with a cultural and historical link to Spain and to Vic ...
or
Latino
Latino or Latinos most often refers to:
* Latino (demonym), a term used in the United States for people with cultural ties to Latin America
* Hispanic and Latino Americans in the United States
* The people or cultures of Latin America;
** Latin A ...
of any race were 22.0% of the population.
There were 7,095 households, of which 37.2% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 37.8% were
married couples
Marriage, also called matrimony or wedlock, is a culturally and often legally recognized union between people called spouses. It establishes rights and obligations between them, as well as between them and their children, and between t ...
living together, 18.4% had a female householder with no husband present, 5.5% had a male householder with no wife present, and 38.3% were non-families. 29.9% of all households were made up of individuals, and 8.2% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.64 and the average family size was 3.33.
The median age in the city was 30.2 years. 28.3% of residents were under the age of 18; 12.6% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 29.9% were from 25 to 44; 20.5% were from 45 to 64; and 8.7% were 65 years of age or older. The gender makeup of the city was 50.3% male and 49.7% female.
2000 census
As of the
census
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of 2000, there were 17,503 people, 6,525 households, and 4,032 families living in the city. The
population density
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was 2,928.6 people per square mile (1,130.1/km). There were 6,933 housing units at an average density of 1,160.0 per square mile (447.6/km). The racial makeup of the city was 76.99%
White
White is the lightest color and is achromatic (having no hue). It is the color of objects such as snow, chalk, and milk, and is the opposite of black. White objects fully reflect and scatter all the visible wavelengths of light. White on ...
, 12.93%
African American
African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans and Afro-Americans) are an ethnic group consisting of Americans with partial or total ancestry from sub-Saharan Africa. The term "African American" generally denotes descendants of ens ...
, 0.29%
Native American, 0.42%
Asian
Asian may refer to:
* Items from or related to the continent of Asia:
** Asian people, people in or descending from Asia
** Asian culture, the culture of the people from Asia
** Asian cuisine, food based on the style of food of the people from Asi ...
, 0.01%
Pacific Islander
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, 6.50% from
other races
Other often refers to:
* Other (philosophy), a concept in psychology and philosophy
Other or The Other may also refer to:
Film and television
* ''The Other'' (1913 film), a German silent film directed by Max Mack
* ''The Other'' (1930 film), a ...
, and 2.86% from two or more races.
Hispanic
The term ''Hispanic'' ( es, hispano) refers to people, Spanish culture, cultures, or countries related to Spain, the Spanish language, or Hispanidad.
The term commonly applies to countries with a cultural and historical link to Spain and to Vic ...
or
Latino
Latino or Latinos most often refers to:
* Latino (demonym), a term used in the United States for people with cultural ties to Latin America
* Hispanic and Latino Americans in the United States
* The people or cultures of Latin America;
** Latin A ...
of any race were 12.89% of the population. 15.2% were of
German
German(s) may refer to:
* Germany (of or related to)
**Germania (historical use)
* Germans, citizens of Germany, people of German ancestry, or native speakers of the German language
** For citizens of Germany, see also German nationality law
**Ger ...
, 9.7%
Irish
Irish may refer to:
Common meanings
* Someone or something of, from, or related to:
** Ireland, an island situated off the north-western coast of continental Europe
***Éire, Irish language name for the isle
** Northern Ireland, a constituent unit ...
, 9.4%
Italian
Italian(s) may refer to:
* Anything of, from, or related to the people of Italy over the centuries
** Italians, an ethnic group or simply a citizen of the Italian Republic or Italian Kingdom
** Italian language, a Romance language
*** Regional Ita ...
, 8.3%
English
English usually refers to:
* English language
* English people
English may also refer to:
Peoples, culture, and language
* ''English'', an adjective for something of, from, or related to England
** English national ide ...
and 5.5%
American ancestry
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according to
Census 2000
The United States census of 2000, conducted by the Census Bureau, determined the resident population of the United States on April 1, 2000, to be 281,421,906, an increase of 13.2 percent over the 248,709,873 people enumerated during the 1990 cen ...
. 85.6% spoke English and 13.2% Spanish as their first language.
There were 6,525 households, out of which 34.4% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 40.4% were
married couples
Marriage, also called matrimony or wedlock, is a culturally and often legally recognized union between people called spouses. It establishes rights and obligations between them, as well as between them and their children, and between t ...
living together, 16.6% had a female householder with no husband present, and 38.2% were non-families. 31.2% of all households were made up of individuals, and 9.6% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.55 and the average family size was 3.22.
In the city, the population was spread out, with 27.7% under the age of 18, 12.1% from 18 to 24, 32.5% from 25 to 44, 17.4% from 45 to 64, and 10.2% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 30 years. For every 100 females, there were 97.0 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 93.7 males.
The median income for a household in the city was $34,842, and the median income for a family was $41,000. Males had a median income of $31,082 versus $23,346 for females. The
per capita income
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Per capita i ...
for the city was $15,391. About 13.4% of families and 16.0% of the population were below the
poverty line
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, including 22.6% of those under age 18 and 10.4% of those age 65 or over.
Schools
Public education in the city of Painesville is provided by the
Painesville City Schools.
Hershey Montessori School is Painesville's independent school option that educates students from birth through sixth grade. Its seventh through twelfth grade campus is located in nearby Huntsburg, Ohio.
The city is also home to
Lake Erie College
Lake Erie College is a Private university, private liberal arts college in Painesville, Ohio. Founded in 1856 as a female seminary, the college converted to a coeducational institution in 1985. As of the 2016–2017 Academic term, academic year, ...
, which is known for equine studies. The former
Andrews Osborne Academy
Andrews Osborne Academy (AOA) is a private, coeducational boarding and day school for Grades Pre-K -12 located on of land in Willoughby, Ohio, east of Cleveland. The student body is 73% day students and 27% boarding students, 51% male and 49% ...
's Painesville campus became part of Lake Erie College in 2008.
Economy
The largest employers are the city government, county government, and the public school systems.
Other notable employers include a number of high-tech manufacturing companies:
Avery Dennison
Avery Dennison Corporation is a multinational manufacturer and distributor of pressure-sensitive adhesive materials (such as self-adhesive labels), apparel branding labels and tags, RFID inlays, and specialty medical products. The company is a ...
– headquartered in
Glendale, California
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, the company's Painesville facility specializes in label making, specialty paper, vinyl film casting, as well as other products.
Mar-Bal Corp. – specializes in
thermoplastics
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Most thermoplastics have a high molecular weight. The polymer chains associate ...
manufacturing,
injection molding
Injection moulding (U.S. spelling: injection molding) is a manufacturing process for producing parts by injecting molten material into a mould, or mold. Injection moulding can be performed with a host of materials mainly including metals (for ...
, and finishing. Its headquarters and R&D department are located in
Chagrin Falls
Chagrin Falls is a village in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, United States and is a suburb of Cleveland in Northeast Ohio's Cleveland-Akron-Canton metropolitan area, the 19th-largest Combined Statistical Area nationwide. The village was established and h ...
; its Painesville facility employs about 200 people.
There are additional locations in China and there is a sales office in
Shanghai
Shanghai (; , , Standard Mandarin pronunciation: ) is one of the four direct-administered municipalities of the People's Republic of China (PRC). The city is located on the southern estuary of the Yangtze River, with the Huangpu River flow ...
. It was named on the Inc. magazine's fastest growing companies in 2013.
Lubrizol
The Lubrizol Corporation is an American provider of specialty chemicals for the transportation, industrial and consumer markets. These products include additives for engine oils and other transportation-related fluids, additives for industrial l ...
– a specialty chemical and petrochemical company wholly owned by
Berkshire Hathaway
Berkshire Hathaway Inc. () is an American Multinational corporation, multinational conglomerate (company), conglomerate holding company headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska, United States. Its main business and source of capital is insurance, from ...
since 2011. The Painesville plant employs 350 with an additional 1200 employees in nearby
Wickliffe, Ohio (its corporate headquarters) and 4,700 nationwide.
Among its product is the gelling agent used to make hand sanitizer.
AeroControlex – manufacturer of control valves, pumps and control assemblies for industries including aerospace, marine, and nuclear power generation. It is owned by
TransDigm Group
TransDigm Group is a publicly traded aerospace manufacturing company headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio. TransDigm develops and manufactures engineered aerospace components. It was founded in 1993, when four industrial aerospace companies were comb ...
. The Painesville facility is the Aero Fluid Products division.
Guyer Precision – contract manufacturer of high-precision
computer numerical control
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machined parts for automotive, aerospace, and other industries.
Eckart America – owned by German-based chemical company
Altana
Altana AG (styled as ALTANA) is a German chemical company headquartered in Wesel. It was created in 1977 through the spin-off of divisions of the Varta Group. The first CEO was Herbert Quandt.
The group comprises the divisions BYK (coating ad ...
, produces patented pigments for paints and coatings, graphic arts, pyrotechnical and other industries. The Painesville facility is Eckart's Ink Manufacturing and Graphic Arts Center.
Meritec – high‐performance electrical and electronic interconnect embedded systems and connectors for aerospace, defense, automotive, and medical device industries.
Ranpak's headquarters was in Painsville until it moved to nearby Concord, Ohio.
In popular culture
The area in and around Painesville was used as the location for the filming of the 1964 feature film ''
One Potato, Two Potato
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Text
The rhyme has been recorded in a large number of variants, bu ...
.''
The film, which was selected at that year's
Cannes Film Festival
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,
provides a glimpse of the era in the city's downtown, featuring its central park and surrounding architecture. The
Lake County Courthouse and Painesville City Hall remain today. The
Parmly Hotel Parmly is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
* Eleazer Parmly (1797–1874), American dentist
* Jahial Parmly Paret (1870–1952), American tennis player and writer
* Michael E. Parmly (born 1951), American diplomat
See also
* Par ...
, which is seen in the opening credits and occasionally throughout the film, has since been replaced by a shopping plaza and office complex.
Notable people
*
Josephine Penfield Cushman Bateham (1829-1901), social reformer, editor, writer
*
Minerva Dayton Bateham
Minerva Dayton Bateham (March 14, 1856 – October 30, 1885), known as Minnie D. Bateham, was an American poet and hymn writer. She was physically disabled by illness from age 12 until her death at age 29.
Early life
Bateham was born in Columb ...
, poet, hymnwriter
*
Daniel Carter Beard
Daniel Carter "Uncle Dan" Beard (June 21, 1850 – June 11, 1941) was an American illustrator, author, youth leader, Georgist and social reformer who founded the Sons of Daniel Boone in 1905, which Beard later merged with the Boy Scouts of Ameri ...
, Boy Scouts of America co-founder
*
John S. Casement
John Stephen "Jack" Casement (January 19, 1829 – December 13, 1909) was a general and brigade commander in the Union Army during the American Civil War and a noted railroad contractor and civil engineer. He directed the construction of the Un ...
, Civil War general
*
Joe Dolce
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Dolce achieved international recognition with his multi-million-selling song, "Shaddap You Face", released worldwide under the n ...
, singer-songwriter and poet
*
Harlan Ellison
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, author
*
Larry Foust
Laurence Michael Foust (June 24, 1928 – October 27, 1984) was an American basketball player who spent 12 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA) and was an 8× All-Star.
Career
Foust attended South Catholic High School in Philade ...
, NBA player
*
Emma Sheridan Fry
Emma Sheridan Fry (, Sheridan; pen name, Polly and E. V. Sheridan; October 1, 1864 – December 1936) was an American actor, playwright, and teacher. She started her career as a stage actress and after retiring from that, she became a writer for ...
, actor, playwright
*
Shell Kepler
Michelle Alaine Kepler (October 5, 1958 – February 1, 2008), was an American television actress best known for her work on ''General Hospital'' as "Nurse Amy Vining", from 1979 until 2002.
Early life
Kepler was born in Ohio, and her family mov ...
, actor
*
George Trumbull Ladd
George Trumbull Ladd (; January 19, 1842 – August 8, 1921) was an American philosopher, educator and psychologist.
Biography
Early life and ancestors
Ladd was born in Painesville, Ohio, on January 19, 1842, the son of Silas Trumbull Ladd and ...
, psychologist
*
Eschines P. Matthews, Wisconsin State Assemblyman
*
Danny Nardico
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, boxer
*
Tom Orosz
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, NFL player
*
Byron Paine
Byron Paine (October 10, 1827January 13, 1871) was an American lawyer and justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court. His successful representation of Ezekiel Gillespie in the 1866 case of ''Gillespie v. Palmer'' resulted in the legal recognition of ...
, Wisconsin Supreme Court justice
*
Paul Ryczek, NFL player
*
Jason Short
Jason Michael Short (born July 16, 1978) is a former American football linebacker in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Eastern Michigan University.
He was a member of the Philadelphia Eagles and Cleveland Browns
...
, NFL player
*
Don Shula
Donald Francis Shula (January 4, 1930 – May 4, 2020) was an American football defensive back and coach who served as a head coach in the National Football League (NFL) from 1963 to 1995. The head coach of the Miami Dolphins for most of his ca ...
, NFL player, coach
*
Charles W. Stage, Ohio state representative, baseball umpire
*
Pat Torpey
Patrick Allan Torpey (December 13, 1953 – February 7, 2018) was an American drummer and singer, best known as the drummer and backing vocalist for the rock band Mr. Big. As well as playing for other various singers and artists such as; John ...
, drummer
References
External links
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Eastern Lake County Chamber of CommerceDowntown Painesville Organization
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Cities in Lake County, Ohio
County seats in Ohio
Populated places established in 1800
Ohio populated places on Lake Erie
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