Elyria Bicentennial 1817-2017
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 .
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.
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)
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Historical Figures: |
Businesses:Elyria Police Dept. & Elyria Fire Dept.:
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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!!!
Jeff Sigsworth: All Categories
Keith Ziegman shared his Dad, Donald Ziegman's photos-Several Categories
Lonnie Cool: Post Cards
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Alan Leiby: Elyria Police Dept.
Lee Bishop: All Categories
Michael Boyd: Parks, People, Places,and other "Stuff"
Tim Bryan: Invest Elyria Volunteer- All Categories
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Jim Alexander: Parks, People, Places,and other "Stuff"
Chuck Messer: Parks, People, Places,and other "Stuff"
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!
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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 Sigsworth Jim Alexander Jim Huber Julie Gardner Warsheskie Keith Ziegman 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!