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Milan (/ ˈ m aɪ l ən / MY-lən) [5] is a village in Erie and Huron counties in the U.S. state of Ohio. The population was 1,371 at the 2020 census . It is best known as the birthplace and childhood home of Thomas Edison .
Abbott–Page House is a historic house located on Mason Road, 2.5 miles northeast of Milan, Ohio. It is locally significant as an early, still surviving farm, and as a well-preserved example of Federal/Greek Revival architecture.
In 1787, the village of "Petquotting"/"New Salem" was established by the Moravian Indians (about 3 miles (5 km) north of present Milan village); they abandoned this village by 1791, but returned in 1804, until about 1808, to a new location within the now village of Milan. Milan Township was originally established about 1808 as "Avery Township".
The Thomas Alva Edison Birthplace is a historic house museum at 9 Edison Drive in Milan, Ohio, Built in 1841, it was the birthplace of American inventor Thomas Alva Edison (1847–1931), born on February 11, 1847.
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Location of Erie County in Ohio. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Erie County, Ohio. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Erie County, Ohio, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many National ...
The Huron Institute was a school located in Milan in the U.S. state of Ohio, in what was then Huron County. The Huron Institute owed its existence to the extensive revivals of religion in the churches of Huron Presbytery in the years 1830 and 1831. The Institute was incorporated by act of the Ohio General Assembly in 1832. With the local people ...
Petquotting (pronounced "pay cutting" ) was the name that the Moravian Missionaries gave to their two settlements on the Huron River (Ohio).The first Moravian Christian Indian village of Petquotting was established in 1787, [1] on the east side of the Huron River, and just north of what is now Mason Road, Milan Twp., Erie County, Ohio.