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Perry is served by the Perry Public Schools. In 2005, the Perry Public Library loaned more than 245,000 items to its 8,000 cardholders. Total holdings are over 52,000 volumes with over 275 periodical subscriptions.
Perry County is a county located in the U.S. state of Ohio. As of the 2020 census, the population was 35,408. [2] Its county seat is New Lexington. [3] It was established on March 1, 1818, from parts of Fairfield, Washington and Muskingum counties. The county is named for Oliver Hazard Perry, a hero of the War of 1812. [4]
Two villages are located in Perry Township: Perry in the center, and most of North Perry in the northeast along the lakeshore. According to the U.S. Census Bureau , the township has a total area of 151.8 square miles (393.1 km 2 ), of which 23.3 square miles (60.4 km 2 ) are land and 128.5 square miles (332.7 km 2 ), or 84.6%, are water. [ 5 ]
Italian prisoners of war working on the Arizona Canal (December 1943) In the United States at the end of World War II, there were prisoner-of-war camps, including 175 Branch Camps serving 511 Area Camps containing over 425,000 prisoners of war (mostly German). The camps were located all over the US, but were mostly in the South, due to the higher expense of heating the barracks in colder areas ...
A 352-foot (107 m) monument — the world's tallest Doric column — was constructed in Put-in-Bay, Ohio by a multi-state commission from 1912 to 1915 "to inculcate the lessons of international peace by arbitration and disarmament." The memorial was designed after an international competition from which the winning design by Joseph H ...
Camp Perry is a National Guard training facility located on the shore of Lake Erie in northern Ohio near Port Clinton.In addition to its regular mission as a military training base, Camp Perry also boasts the second largest outdoor rifle range in the world after the NRA Whittington Center in Raton, New Mexico.
Perry Township is one of the seventeen townships of Stark County, Ohio, United States. It is an urban township ; the 2020 census found 28,389 people in the township. Geography
Perry Township Hall The township is governed by a three-member board of trustees, who are elected in November of odd-numbered years to a four-year term beginning on the following January 1. Two are elected in the year after the presidential election and one is elected in the year before it.