Local History

Benaiah Jones, from Painesville Ohio, looked for land here in 1829, surveyed it in 1830, and platted the village named for him in 1831.  The first  platted village in the county and the county seat.  A station on the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad. Incorporated as a village in 1835.  

Informational excerpts from Michigan Place Names, by Walter Romig, L.H.D.

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