Editing Lorain County, Ohio (section)

==History==
Lorain County was established in 1822 from portions of several of its adjacent counties.<ref>{{cite web |title=Lorain County - Ohio History Central |url=https://ohiohistorycentral.org/w/Lorain_County |website=ohiohistorycentral.org |publisher=Ohio History Connection |access-date=October 26, 2022}}</ref> This county became judicially-independent in 1824. The original proposed name for the county was "Colerain".<ref>Sandusky Register (newspaper); Sandusky, Ohio, 1822</ref> The final name "Lorain" was chosen by Heman Ely, who had founded and named the city of Elyria. The county's name is based on the former German and now French province of [[Lorraine]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Wright |first=George Frederick |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fz8VAAAAYAAJ |title=A Standard History of Lorain County, Ohio: An Authentic Narrative of the Past, with Particular Attention to the Modern Era in the Commercial, Industrial, Civic and Social Development. A Chronicle of the People, with Family Lineage and Memoirs |publisher=Lewis publishing Company |year=1916 |pages=625–627 |language=en}}</ref>