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| Keywords: 1834-mouth of black river-lorain.jpg en 1834 Plat Map for the village of Mouth of Black River The first known registered survey for what was 40 years later to become the City of Lorain Ohio After the death of pioneer John S Reid the remainder of his land near the little village was plotted into additional village lots by his son Conrad Reid and his sons-in-laws Daniel T Baldwin Quartus Gillmore and Barna Meeker; partly prompted by the growing shipbuilding business which began about 1819 in the little village earlier named for its obvious location They renamed the village Charleston in 1836 although shortly later it was known as simply Black River village until it was finally named Lorain in 1874 Note the names of the streets some of which were added in at a much later date Lake Street should not be confused with Lake Road which is Main Street / West Erie on this map About the time of this 1834 survey the following businesses were recorded in operation within the village merchants Wm Jones and Gates and Green and W E Fitch; blacksmith A T Jones; shoemaker E Miller; tailor Thomas Brown; and the Reid House hotel/tavern run by Barna Meeker it may have been in the same structure built by John S Reid which served as a blockhouse during the War of 1812 Caption written by wiki-user ohiopioneers on file uploaded 8 Apr 2012 2012-04-08 map Lorain County Governmental Durand independent surveyor metadata from image PD-old-100 Uploaded with UploadWizard Lorain Ohio Maps of Lorain County Ohio Old maps of cities in Ohio 1834 maps | ||||
