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Painesville Township, Ohio

Summary

Located on Grand River twelve miles northeast of Kirtland. Created and settled, 1800. Originally named Champion. Flourished economically from harbor on Lake Erie and as major route of overland travel for western emigration. Included Painesville village; laid out, ca. 1805; incorporated as town, 1832; designated county seat of newly formed Lake Co., 1840. Population in 1830 about 1,500. Latter-day Saints borrowed money from Bank of Geauga branch in township. JS visited Painesville often. Early center of opposition to Latter-day Saints. Painesville Telegraph printed material critical of JS and Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. First major anti-Mormon book, Mormonism Unvailed, also published in township. JS was arrested and tried in township multiple times.

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Township
Painesville Township
County
Geauga County (now in Lake County)
State/Province
Ohio
Country:
United States of America