Celina, Ohio

Celina is a city located in Mercer County, Ohio. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 10,303. It is the county seat of Mercer County{{GR|6}}.

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Mercer County, Ohio - 2000 - County seat

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Celina is situated on the western shores of Grand Lake. Huffy Bicycle and Mersman Furniture formerly has manufacturing plants in Celina, but have since closed. Companies such as Celina Aluminum Precision Technology-a Honda supplier--and Reynolds and Reynolds are the largest manufacturing employers.

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Celina was founded in 1834 in a swampy, wooded area that had to be drained and cleared before it could be settled. What remained was a level town surrounded by rich farm fields. When one of the town's founding fathers was traveling through New York state to get the town plat lithographed, he came across the town of Salina situated on the edge of Onondaga Lake near Syracuse. Noting the similarity between Salina and the newly founded settlement in Ohio, he named the new town Celina. The spelling was changed to avoid confusion at the post office, or so the story goes.

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New York - Salina - Onondaga Lake - Syracuse

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