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5 unusual facts about Medina County


1851 Atlantic hurricane season

The cyclone slowly weakened as it turned northwestward, with hurricane force wind gusts reported 24 hours after landfall in current-day Medina County.

Clearwater Township, Michigan

The next permanent resident in the township was William H. Bockes, a native of Medina County, Ohio and a Civil War veteran.

Interstate 271

The highway runs from a junction with I-71 in Medina Township to I-90 in Willoughby Hills, intersecting I-480 (and running jointly with it for a short stretch).

Larry Obhof

Obhof is married, has three children, and lives in Montville Township, Medina County, Ohio.

Tucker v. Texas

In the course of his work, he went to the Hondo Navigation Village located on the Hondo Army Airfield in Medina County, Texas.


Ferdinand A. Brader

From drawings that survive it is known that Brader's Ohio pictures were done in 9 different adjoining counties: Portage, Medina, Wayne, Stark, Summit, Carroll, Columbiana, Mahoning and Tuscarawas continuing through 1895.


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Medina County University Center

The MCUC, under the direction of University of Akron President Luis M. Proenza, is the first physical facility in Medina County devoted solely to higher education.