Streetsboro, Ohio: A Connecticut Man's Township

Streetsboro carries the name of Titus Street, a Connecticut land speculator who purchased the township in seventeen ninety-eight as part of the Connecticut Western Reserve, the vast tract that Ohio's northeast corner was carved from. Street's agents surveyed the land in the summer of eighteen twenty-two and divided it into hundred-acre lots. The first settlers arrived that same year.

Before any of them came, the Seneca used the Old Portage Trail crossing the township's southwest corner to travel between Lake Erie and the Ohio River basin, a route thousands of years old. The township was organized in the years that followed. Today Streetsboro is a small city along the old Reserve corridor, still bearing the name of the Connecticut man who bought it.