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NORWALK , a city and the county-seat ofSee also: Huron county, See also: Ohio, U.S.A., about 55 M
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W.S.W. of See also: Cleveland
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(Igoo) 7074, including 762 See also: foreign-See also: born and See also: lot negroes; (1910) 7858 It is served by the Lake See also: Shore & Michigan See also: Southern, and the See also: Wheeling & Lake See also: Erie See also: railways, and by interurban electric lines
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It has a public library in which a small museum is maintained by the Firelands See also: Historical Society
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The city is the centre of a See also: rich agricultural See also: district
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Among its manufactures are machine-See also: shop products (the Wheeling & Lake Erie has shops here), iron and See also: steel; pianos and automobile fittings
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Norwalk was settled in 18'7 and was named from Norwalk, See also: Connecticut; it was incorporated as a See also: town in 1829 and chartered as a city in 1881
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Huron county and Erie county immediately N. are the westernmost of the counties created from the " Western Reserve," and comprise the " Fire Lands " See also: grant made in 1792 by the
See also: state of Connecticut to the See also: people of See also: Greenwich, See also: Fairfield, See also: Danbury, Ridgefield, Norwalk, New Haven, See also: East Haven and New See also: London to indemnify them for their fire losses during the See also: British expeditions in Connecticut under Governor See also: Tryon in 1779 and Benedict See also: Arnold in 178r
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The Connecticut grantees were incorporated in 1803 as " the proprietors of the See also: half-million acres of See also: land
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