Editing Geneva, Ohio (section)

==History==
[[File:Geneva, OH Public Library.jpg|thumb|left|Geneva [[Carnegie library]]]]
The area which would eventually be Geneva was first settled in 1805 by a  handful of settlers from [[Charlotte, New York|Charlotte]], [[New York (state)|New York]].<ref name=history>{{cite web|title=City of Geneva, Ohio - History|url=http://www.genevaohio.com/city_history.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030419155103/http://www.genevaohio.com/city_history.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=April 19, 2003|access-date=January 26, 2008}}</ref> In 1806, settlers from [[Harpersfield, New York|Harpersfield]], [[New York (state)|New York]] arrived and established [[Harpersfield Township, Ashtabula County, Ohio|Harpersfield Township]], which included the present-day townships of [[Geneva Township, Ashtabula County, Ohio|Geneva]], [[Trumbull Township, Ashtabula County, Ohio|Trumbull]] and [[Hartsgrove Township, Ashtabula County, Ohio|Hartsgrove]].<ref name="history" /> However, in 1816, citizens of Harpersfield decided to withdraw from the township and form their own township, which then became Geneva Township, named after [[Geneva, New York|Geneva]], [[New York (state)|New York]].<ref name="history" /> In 1866, the town of Geneva then became a [[Village (United States)#Ohio|village]], and, nearly one hundred years later, in 1958, Geneva was incorporated as a city.<ref name="history" />

===Declaration of Lunar Ownership===
On April 12, 1966, more than 200 people attended ceremonies at [[Geneva High School (Ohio)|Geneva High School]] at which it was revealed that the city had claimed [[Extraterrestrial real estate|ownership of the moon]].<ref name=moon>{{cite web|author=Press Release|date=April 20, 2004|title=Moon Over Ohio: Residents Claimed Lunar Ownership in 1966|url=http://www.emediawire.com/releases/2004/4/emw122460.htm |work=eMediaWire|access-date=January 26, 2008 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20041222151741/http://www.emediawire.com/releases/2004/4/emw122460.htm |archive-date = December 22, 2004}}</ref> The "Declaration of Lunar Ownership" contained 35 signatures, and was revealed simultaneously with the city's 100th anniversary.<ref name="moon" /> It claimed that the "physical property of the moon shall belong exclusively to the citizens of Geneva, Ohio," and that unfriendly acts upon the city would be responded to with "all human dignity and moral circumspection."<ref name="moon" /> The city claimed the right to rent or lease its moon holdings via a two-thirds vote of the city's entire population, and provided for the sale of 100 deeds for {{convert|100|acre|km2}} of land, each acre priced at $100.<ref name="moon" />