Strongsville, Ohio

Strongsville was built by New Englanders chasing cheap land on the Connecticut Western Reserve. The first settlers arrived in eighteen sixteen, clearing enough forest for log cabins before winter. The township was officially formed on February twenty-fifth, eighteen eighteen, named after John Stoughton Strong, a Vermont land agent who had purchased twenty-five square miles of Reserve land from Oliver Ellsworth of Hartford and was charged with selling off the lots.

By eighteen twenty, the population had reached two hundred ninety-seven, with two sawmills, sandstone quarries, and a brickyard already in operation. The community grew steadily as a rural township, incorporated as a village in nineteen twenty-three, and became a city in nineteen sixty-one when the postwar suburban expansion of Cleveland pushed south into Cuyahoga County's southwestern corner.