Lebanon, Ohio

Lebanon is a city located in Warren County, Ohio. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 16,962. It is the county seat of Warren County{{GR|6}}. It was named after the Biblical Lebanon because of the many juniper trees there, mistaken for the Lebanon Cedar. It is known today as "The Cedar City". The name is pronounced LEB-nuhn.

History

Lebanon is in the Symmes Purchase. The first settler in what is now Lebanon was Ichabod Corwin, uncle of Thomas Corwin, who came to Ohio from Bourbon County, Kentucky and settled on the north branch of Turtle Creek in March 1796. The site of his cabin is now on the grounds of Berry Intermediate School on North Broadway and is marked with a monument erected by the Daughters of the American Revolution.

Related Topics:
Symmes Purchase - Thomas Corwin - Bourbon County, Kentucky - 1796

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The town was laid out in September 1802 on land owned by Ichabod Corwin, Silas Hurin, Ephraim Hathaway, and Samuel Manning in Sections 35 and 35 of Town 5, Range 3 North and Sections 5 and 6 of Town 4, Range 3 North of the Between the Miami Rivers Survey.

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Lebanon is largely within the Lebanon telephone exchange, but parts are in the Mason and South Lebanon exchanges.

Related Topics:
Mason - South Lebanon

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