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6 unusual facts about Portage County


Frederick J. Loudin

Loudin was born to free parents in Charlestown Township, Portage County, Ohio, circa 1836.

Garfield, Portage County, Wisconsin

Garfield is located in central Wisconsin approximately half way between Rosholt and Nelsonville on Portage County Road A, about two and a half miles west of Peru.

Louis Molepske

In November 2012, Molepske was elected district attorney for Portage County, Wisconsin.

Mantua, Utah

Snow was from Mantua, Ohio, and the town was named after the Ohio community in his honor.

Nate Hartley

He attended Rootstown Elementary School in Portage County, Ohio.

Portage County, Ohio

Under Ohio law, there are two types of incorporated municipal jurisdictions: cities and villages, and any territory within a county that is not part of an incorporated municipality (city or village), is part of a township.


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.

Larry Kehres

He attended and played quarterback for Portage County's Southeast High School, which shared the 1966 Portage County League championship with Windham High School, before attending Mount Union College from 1967 to 1970.

Orion P. Howe

Howe was born in 1848 in Portage County, Ohio but after his mother died in 1852, the family moved to Waukegan, Illinois.

Wisconsin Highway 66

Highway 66 then departs from Highways 10 and 51 and I-39 and continues northwest past the Stevens Point Municipal Airport, heading east at Jordan near the Jordan County Park of Portage County.


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Ellis, Wisconsin

Ellis is located in central Wisconsin approximately six miles northeast of Stevens Point, approximately four miles north of Custer, and approximately six miles southwest of Rosholt, where State Road 66 and Portage County Road J to the south meets with Ellis Road.

Katharine Elizabeth Dopp

She grew up in the area known then as "Dopp Neighborhood" and attended the one room "Dopp School" in what is now in the town of Belmont, in Portage County, surrounded by a large family and the experience of her early years in a farm near the wilderness was to mark her for her life.

Oscar W. Ritchie

In concert with some of his colleagues at Kent State he also co-founded the Portage County Family Planning, Counseling and Mental Health Center in Ravenna, Ohio with Dr. Dwight I. Arnold, a KSU Emeritus professor, and Dr. John Guidabaldi (Chairman, Associate Professor, Early Childhood Ed.), in 1962.

PARTA

Portage Area Regional Transportation Authority, a public transit authority in Portage County, Ohio