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Elyria Bicentennial 1817-2017


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Jeff Sigsworth: "Heman Ely, Sr., 1817 founder & namesake of Elyria, as he looked as a young man -- touring Europe, including the Illyriian provinces (which later gave him the idea for the name "Elyria"). Early histories theorized that he took the name "Ely" and added the last 3 letters of his wife's name "Maria" -- but it's been shown that his 2nd wife's name was Harriet Maria Salter (Maria was her middle name); and they were married 11 years AFTER Elyria was first settled and named."
This bicentennial page would not be possible without the input and sharing of postcards and old photos that come from old Chronicle newspapers, the Elyria Public Library System, The Lorain County Historical Society, other websites and you kind folks of Elyria that shared them. Every effort was made to give you more than just a photo. We included captions on photos when possible to give you more information and some photos are links to article we found on the person, or place. We would like to particularly thank Jeff Sigsworth, Lonnie Cool, Lee Bishop, and Chuck Messer from the Facebook page "You know your from Elyria if..."  for their many contributions of photos, postcards and descriptions of the items that sent to us for creating this page. We'd also like to thank Al Leiby for sharing his collection of old Police  Department photos along with his in depth descriptions and for EFD Station#1 for allowing us to stop by and take photos of past chiefs also for sharing old photos they had stored  and the Elyria Firefighter Local 474 website .
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To learn more about the Elyria's early years visit this website: Reminiscences of Elyria 
Note: Photo display with captions best seen with your computer's Zoom level set at 110-125 percent.
Pair hopes to keep memory of Lorain County railroad alive:(article from CT 7/24/16)
STATE NEWS Senate honors Easter Seals centennial Founded in Elyria in 1935, nonprofit started out as Societies for Crippled Children Laina Yost | The Chronicle-Telegram Published on April 12, 2019

Downtown:

Historical Figures:


Businesses:


Elyria Police Dept. & Elyria Fire Dept.:
(Police photos courtesy of Alan Leiby unless otherwise noted)


Parks, People, Places and Other "Stuff":


2017 Bicentennial Photos:

Click Here to see videos for the Bicentennial

Elyria's Town Hall celebrates 150th Anniversary; Article(.pdf)courtesy of Jeff Sigsworth July 7, 2017

NEWS Steel time capsule buried to conclude Elyria Bicentennial (VIDEO)
By Lisa Roberson | The Chronicle-Telegram Published on Nov. 15, 2017 | Updated 9:23 a. m.
Look Back, Elyria: The Elyria Telephone Company in the 20th Century
Marci Rich | Special to the Chronicle-Telegram Published on Feb. 4, 2018

Homes:


Sports/Arts and other Personalities:


Post Cards:

To see more postcards from Lonnie Cool visit his Facebook page: "Daily Postcards from the Collection of Lonnie F. Cool"

Schools:


Bicentennial Mural on Suzanne L Chocolatier building 230 Broad St. Completed thanks to: Muralist-David Pavlik along with artists Megan Rowe, Marty Rowe, Clint Rohrbacher. of the Elyria Arts Council.


Special Thanks to the following for describing and sharing "many" photos/post cards...Thank You!!!
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Jeff Sigsworth: All Categories
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Keith Ziegman shared his Dad, Donald Ziegman's photos-Several Categories
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Lonnie Cool: Post Cards
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Alan Leiby: Elyria Police Dept.
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Lee Bishop: All Categories
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Michael Boyd: Parks, People, Places,and other "Stuff"
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Tim Bryan: Invest Elyria Volunteer- All Categories
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Jim Alexander: Parks, People, Places,and other "Stuff"
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Chuck Messer: Parks, People, Places,and other "Stuff"
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Brenda Carl Vargo Leslie: Businesses and Parks, People, and other "Stuff"
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List of all Contributors that made this celebration of Elyria's Bicentennial possible....
​Thank You to all for sharing your photos/postcards!

​Alan Leiby
Brenda Carl Vargo Leslie
Brenda Sue Henthorn Morris
Charles Shonkwiler
Chuck Messer
David Pavlak
Dennis LePore
​Diane Moore Mohrman
Edwin Powell
Elyria Parks
Elyria Police Dept- Chief Whitely
Fire Dept-Chief Denton
Fran Gerdine Zimmerman
George Denny
Holly Harding
​Jeff Castle
Jeff Sigsworth
Jim Alexander
Jim Huber
Julie Gardner Warsheskie
Keith Ziegman
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Ken Rosenbaum
Kevin Krischer
Lee Bishop
Lesley Gullion
Lonnie Cool-Postcards
Lynn Kirby Everest
​Mary Bryan

Michael Boyd
Michele Fees Hicks
Nadine Tumbas
Peggy Paterchak
Ramona Hudson
Randy Brown
Rick and late Dennis Camp
​Sabrina Gore
Sean Beckwith

Sharon K S Collins
Susan Medina
Terry Meecha
​Tim Bryan

Tracy Lorraine Smith
Trish Williams
This site will be continually updated so if you have any photos that you would like to share please send them to us at t.bryan@investelyria.org  ,,,Thank You!

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