Celina (Ohio)
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Location in Ohio
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| Foundation : | 1834 | ||
| State : | United States | ||
| State : | Ohio | ||
| County : | Mercer County | ||
| Coordinates : | 40 ° 33 ′ N , 84 ° 34 ′ W | ||
| Time zone : | Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 ) | ||
| Residents : | 10,303 (as of: 2000) | ||
| Population density : | 903.8 inhabitants per km 2 | ||
| Area : | 11.5 km 2 (about 4 mi 2 ) of which 11.4 km 2 (about 4 mi 2 ) is land |
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| Height : | 267 m | ||
| Postcodes : | 45822, 45826 | ||
| Area code : | +1 419 | ||
| FIPS : | 39-12868 | ||
| GNIS ID : | 1048589 | ||
| Website : | www.ci.celina.oh.us | ||
| Mayor : | Sharon LaRue | ||
 Mercer County Courthouse in Caldwell |
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Celina is a city in Mercer County in western American state of Ohio , about halfway between Cincinnati and Toledo . Celina is located on the west bank of Grand Lake St. Marys , a 55 km² artificial lake, about half the size of the Müritz in Germany. Celina has some 10,000 inhabitants (as of the 2000 census ) and is the seat of the administration ( the county seat ) of Mercer County.
The nearest airport (Lakefield Airport, ICAO code KCQA) is 10 km from Celina and is primarily used by private planes and charter traffic.
history
Celina was founded in 1834 within thick forests. Sawmills were soon built and the workforce began to attract. The place saw a notable increase in population in the 1880s when oil and gas were discovered in the area. The production of furniture quickly became another important industry. This remained so until the middle of the 20th century. The largest local furniture company was the Mersman Brothers Company , which was the market leader in the manufacture of tables in the United States during the Depression .
The historic city center was added to the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) as Celina Main Street Commercial Historic District in 1982 and thus placed under a preservation order.
education
In 1962 the Western Ohio Educational Foundation opened a college in Celina in cooperation with the Ohio Northern University . In 1969 the college changed partners and has been part of Wright State University (WSU), whose headquarters are in Dayton . About 1000 students study on the WSU campus in Celina ( Lake Campus ).
Personalities
- Francis Celeste Le Blond (1821–1902), Democratic Congressman from 1863 to 1867, grandfather of Frank Le Blond Kloeb
- William E. Tou Velle (1862–1951), Democratic Congressman 1907–1911
- Frank Le Blond Kloeb (1890-1976), Democratic Congressman 1933 to 1937, then federal judge for North Ohio (ND Ohio) until 1964
- Mildred Wolfe (1912–2009), artist (painting and graphics). A portrait of Eudora Welty she painted is in the National Portrait Gallery in Washington DC
- Richard Schoen (* 1950), mathematician
Individual evidence
- ↑ Homepage of Lakefield Airport ( Memento of the original from April 12, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , as well as Lakefield Airport data .
- ^ History. (No longer available online.) City of Celina, archived from the original on December 1, 2008 ; accessed on November 19, 2009 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Federal Writers' Project (Editor): The Ohio Guide . Oxford University Press, New York 1940, pp. 556-557. (Writers Program of the Work Projects Administration in the State of Ohio, sponsored by the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society.)
- ^ Joyce L Alig: Mercer County, Ohio history . Mercer County Historical Society., Celina (OH) 1978. ( Excerpt ( memento of the original from March 27, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. to Mersman Brothers Corporation.)
- ^ OHIO - Mercer County on the National Register of Historic Places: Celina Main Street Commercial Historic District. (Added to the NRHP list in 1982, # 82001474)
- ^ History of Lake Campus on the WSU website.
- ↑ Elizabeth Wolfe (Editor): Mildred Nungester Wolfe . University Press of Mississippi, Jackson 2005 ISBN 1578068096
Web links
- Story of Celina on the official city website