Copley is an unincorporated community in Summit County, in the U.S. state of Ohio.
History
editVariant names were Greenfield and Copley Center.[1] The first settlement at Copley Center was made around 1819.[2] The community was named for its location near the geographical center of Copley Township.[2] A post office called Copley Centre was established in 1835, the name was changed to Copley in 1841, and the post office closed in 1957.[3]
Notable People
edit- Delia L. Weatherby (1843—1916) social reformer and author[4]
References
edit- ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Copley, Ohio
- ^ a b Perrin, William Henry (1881). History of Summit County: With an Outline Sketch of Ohio. Baskin & Battey. p. 645.
- ^ "Summit County". Jim Forte Postal History. Archived from the original on January 29, 2016. Retrieved January 23, 2016.
- ^ Willard, Frances Elizabeth, 1839-1898; Livermore, Mary Ashton Rice, 1820-1905 (1893). A woman of the century; fourteen hundred-seventy biographical sketches accompanied by portraits of leading American women in all walks of life. Buffalo, N.Y., Moulton. pp. 754–755. Retrieved August 8, 2017.
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