In 1795, the Connecticut Land Company auctioned
twenty-five square miles of land known as Plum
Creek Township. Aaron Olmsted, a sea captain,
purchased almost half of the property. Although
Olmsted died before ever seeing his land, in 1829,
his son Charles offered to donate books to the area
in exchange for changing the settlement's name
from Lenox to Olmsted. In 1815, a shoemaker
James Geer and his famtly became the first
permanent American residents to settle in the
southern end of the area. Geer's farm was on
what is now Columbia Road.
The Village of Olmsted Falls was incorporated in
1856. The Village Green, which was platted as a
public space where residents could graze their
livestock, was the site of the Union Schoolhouse
from 1873-1914. The public shelter on the green as
of 2015 represents the architecture of the school
building. The Cleveland and Toledo Railroad cut
through the center of the village and spurred the
area's growth. In 1927, the Village of Westview was
created around a hamlet in southern Olmsted. By
1972, the two villages' populations had grown large
enough to merge through a citizen vote and the
City of Olmsted Falls was created.
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