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520 Milan Ave
Norwalk, OH (in city)
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Local city information for Norwalk, OH
Norwalk is a city in Huron County, Ohio, United States. The population was 16,238 at the 2000 census. The 2007 population estimate puts Norwalk at 16,596. It is the county seat of Huron County.
Norwalk is at the center of a subregion in Ohio's Western Reserve commonly known as the Firelands. The sub-region's name recalls the founding of the area as one for settlers from cities in Connecticut that were burned during the Revolutionary War. Several locations in the Firelands area were named in honor of those cities (e.g. Greenwich, Groton, New London, Norwalk, Norwich, Ridgefield, etc.) as well as the names of settlers (e.g. Clarksfield, Perkins, Sherman, etc.).
On July 11, 1779, Norwalk, Connecticut was burned by the British Tories under Governor William Tryon. A committee of the General Assembly estimated the losses to the inhabitants at $116,238.66. The Continental Congress granted an area in the Western Reserve of Ohio as compensation for those established losses.
On May 30, 1800, the United States ceded the land titles to the "fire sufferers" and the representatives of the Western Reserve transferred the political jurisdiction to the general government. The Indian title was extinguished by treaty on July 4, 1805, on payment of $18,916.67; and in 1806, thirteen men arrived to make the first survey of the Firelands.
On November 9, 1808, a group of prominent citizens from Ridgefield, Norwalk, New Haven, Greenwich, and Fairfield met at the courthouse in New Haven, Connecticut, as the Board of Directors of the Proprietors of the half-million acres (2,000 km²) of land lying south of Lake Erie, called the "Sufferers Land". They passed a resolution naming many of the townships in this area known as the "Fire Lands of Ohio".
Between 1806 and 1810, many families made the trip to look over land they had purchased in the Firelands. During the War of 1812, the fear of British and Indian raids caused settlement of the Huron County area to come almost to a standstill. With the war's end, Platt Benedict of Danbury, Connecticut visited and examined the present site of Norwalk in 1815. He returned to Danbury and purchased 1,300 acres (5.3 km²) of land with an eye toward establishing a town.
In July 1817, Benedict returned to Norwalk with his family and established a homestead. This was the first permanent residence established within the limits of Norwalk Village. In May 1818, the county seat was successfully removed from the now-defunct frontier settlement of Avery to Norwalk, and by 1819 a census showed a population of 109 residents. Platt Benedict, the founder of Norwalk and its first mayor, died in 1866 at the age of 91. He is buried in Woodlawn Cemetery.
Though few of the early settlers of Norwalk and the surrounding area were actual fire suffers, most did come from Connecticut and nearby states. They brought with them not only the customs, but also the architecture of New England. Many of their homes are still standing.
In 1881, Norwalk's population reached the required minimum entitling her to incorporate as a city and the City of Norwalk dates from April 12, 1881.
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