Beaver Creek settlement (Ohio)
The Beaver Creek settlement (Lorain County, Ohio) was established in the year 1810, when a group of families from the area of Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania(USA), relocated to central northern Ohio (to an area which at that time was within "Huron County" Ohio, but which later became a part of Lorain County, Ohio). The families (perhaps organized and headed by Jacob Shupe*) established a small community (or "settlement") in the vicinity of northern Beaver Creek where they also built a grist-mill and a saw-mill.[1] A few decades later, many German immigrants arrived to the same area (partially situated within the western portion of the present city-limits of Lorain, Ohio), and also built a German Church northerly of the mills [2] During the 20th-century, this Beaver Creek Settlement area was entirely absorbed into the City of Lorain and also the village of Amherst, Ohio. [*- Jacob Shupe has erroneously been later attributed by modern-historians, as the "founder" of Amherst village (but which was actually instead 'founded' by pioneer Josiah Harris upon Harris' own farm).]