Wellington, Ohio

• Fire overnight destroys barn on Quarry Road
  

  WELLINGTON TWP. a ' A fire destroyed a Quarry Road barn overnight. The Wellington Fire Department was called to Rodger Guelker's home at 21011 Quarry Road about 1:30 a.m. and arrived to find the 40-foot by 80-foot barn fully engulfed in flames, according to Lt.

• Kenneth A. Farnsworth, Jr.
  

  Kenneth A. Farnsworth, Jr. Kenny pulled many times in the Lorain County Fair tractor pulls and helped for many years doing tracA tor pull backs during the Friday night modified night tractor pulls at the Lorain County Fair.

• 131,675 people attend Lorain County Fair
  

  The Lorain County Fair had its best year attendance-wise since 2006, with 131,675 people attending over the fair's seven days.

• Pauline M. Simonson Hines McKisson
  

  Pauline M. Simonson Hines McKisson Pauline M. SimonA son Hines McKisson, 99, died Wednesday, August 25, 2010, at Allen Community HosA pital in Oberlin.

• Don Crawford is 2010 Clair Hill award winner at fair
  

  Don Crawford, a Lorain County senior fair board member from Wellington, is this year's Clair Hill Memorial Award winner.

• Pink Tractor Earns Teen Blue Ribbon
  

  John Deere tractors are supposed to be green, right? Not according to 18-year-old Samantha Grills.

• New home at Fred Fuller Park: Diner flies from Kent
  

  RC Diner Move Jim Klier watching as the Diner is being lifted by Portage Crane were doing the crane work .

• Wellington home tour a trip through history
  

  Imagine walking through the door of one of those big, beautiful homes in downtown Wellington and poking around.

• Avon firefighter killed in motorcycle accident overnight
  

  CARLISLE TWP. a ' A motorcycle crash overnight claimed the life of an Avon firefighter.

• New London man killed in motorcycle crash
  

  WAKEMAN TWP. A New London man died when his motorcycle crashed into a pickup truck on Butler Road late Saturday night.

• Gaming addiction can tear families apart
  

  A 32-year-old Englewood woman knew her husband had a problem with video games when she had to interrupt him from playing the popular fantasy game, World of Warcraft, to say she was pregnant.

• Board of Revision rep Virginia Haynes resigns
  

  The Lorain County com missioners' representative on the county's Board of Revision resigned Wednesday from the post she held for about a month in the wake of a con troversy surrounding a Parma city councilman who was serving on the Cuyahoga County Board of Revision.

• Quilt show is at farm
  

  WELLINGTON -- The Ohio Outdoor Quilt Festival will have its sixth annual show Saturday at Bonnie Brae Farms, 27717 Quarry Road.

City Description

Wellington is a village in Lorain County, Ohio, United States. The population was 4,511 at the 2000 census. Wellington was settled in 1818 by Ephraim Wilcox, Charles Sweet, William T. Welling, John Clifford, and Joseph Wilson from the states of Massachusetts and New York. It was originally named Charlemont by Charles Sweet who, after winning a tree chopping contest, was given the right to name the township. It was later changed to Wellington by the townspeople in honor of one of the founders William Welling and also "Iron Duke", the Duke of Wellington. Wellington was incorporated as a village in 1855. In 1858, the former American House Hotel (later torn down and replace with Herrick Memorial Library) was the site of the Oberlin-Wellington Rescue. A group of men, both white and black and many from Oberlin, swarmed the hotel to rescue runaway slave John Price. He was being held by a US Marshal and his men, who intended to return him to his master in Kentucky. The abolitionists transported Price out of town en route to the Underground Railroad and got him to Canada. Thirty-seven men were indicted, but only two, Simeon M. Bushnell and Charles Henry Langston, were tried in federal court

City Contained By:

• Lorain County
• Ohio

City Contains:

• Wellington Center Historic District
• Mosher House

Timezones:

• North American Eastern Time Zone

Size:

• 7.76996433101 km squared

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