CONNEAUT  , a

city of Ashtabula county, Ohio, U.S.A., on Lake Erie at the mouth of Conneaut Creek, and about 68 m . N.E. of Cleveland . Pop . (1890) 3241; (1900) 7133 (1227 foreign-born); (191o) 8319 . It is served by the New York, Chicago & St Louis (which has railway repair shops here), the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern, and the Bessemer & Lake Erie railways, and by car ferries which ply between Conneaut and Rondeau and Port Stanley on the Canadian side of Lake Erie . There is a beautiful public park of 20 acres on the lake shore . Conneautis situated in a grain-growing and dairying region; it has an excellent harbour to and from which coal and ore are shipped, and is a sub-port of entry . The city has planing mills, flour mills, brick works, tanneries, canneries and manufactories of electric and gas fixtures, electric lamps and tungsten gas lamps . The municipality owns and operates its electric-lighting plant . In 1796 survcyors for the Connecticut Land Co. built a log store-house here, but the permanent settlement dates from 1798; in 1832 Conneaut was incorporated, and it became a city in 1898 .