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The City of Geneva , commonly known as Geneva, is a city located within Ashtabula County, Ohio in the United States. The area which would become Geneva was originally settled in 1805, and was incorporated as a city in 1958. It is named after Geneva, New York. The city's population as of the 2000 Census was 6,595.
HistoryThe area which would eventually be the City of Geneva was first settled in 1805 by a handful of settlers from Charlotte, New York. In 1806, settlers from Harpersfield, New York arrived and established Harpersfield Township, which included the present-day townships of Geneva, Trumbull and Hartsgrove. However, in 1816, citizens of Harpersfield decided to withdraw from the township and form their own township, which then became Geneva Township, named after Geneva, New York. In 1866, the town of Geneva then became a village, and, nearly one hundred years later, in 1958, Geneva was incorporated as a city.
GeographyGeneva is located at . Geneva is 45 miles east of Cleveland and 55 miles west of Erie, Pennsylvania.
HistoryThe area which would eventually be the City of Geneva was first settled in 1805 by a handful of settlers from Charlotte, New York. In 1806, settlers from Harpersfield, New York arrived and established Harpersfield Township, which included the present-day townships of Geneva, Trumbull and Hartsgrove. However, in 1816, citizens of Harpersfield decided to withdraw from the township and form their own township, which then became Geneva Township, named after Geneva, New York. In 1866, the town of Geneva then became a village, and, nearly one hundred years later, in 1958, Geneva was incorporated as a city.
GeographyGeneva is located at . Geneva is 45 miles east of Cleveland and 55 miles west of Erie, Pennsylvania.
The city is bordered to the north, east and west by Geneva Township and Harpersfield Township to the south. The Grand River flows around Geneva to the south in Harpersfield and to the west in Lake County. The Geneva State Park is located to the north of the city (within Geneva Township).
According to the 2000 census, Geneva has a total area of approximately four square miles (10.3km²), with all of the area being land and none of it being water.
EducationThe Geneva Area City School District provides K–12 education to students in Geneva as well as Geneva Township (including Geneva-on-the-Lake), Harpersfield Township, Trumbull Township and Austinburg Township (including Austinburg). The district is has four elementary schools (Geneva Elementary, Spencer Elementary, Cork Elementary and Austinburg Elementary), one junior high school (Geneva Junior High) and one high school (Geneva High School). The elementary schools serve students in grades K–6, while the junior high and high schools serve students in grades 7–8 and 9–12 respectively. The district has an open enrollment policy, allowing students from the entire county, as well as Lake and Geauga Counties to enroll.
CultureGeneva Grape JamboreeThe Grape Jamboree is an annual celebration of the area's grape-growing and wine-producing industries. The festival occurs during the final full weekend of September, and lasts both days. Festivities include two parades, one held on each day, as well as various amusement park-type rides and typical festival food kiosks set up on the main streets (Route 20 and Route 534) of Geneva.
Declaration of Lunar OwnershipOn 1966-04-12, more than 200 people attended announcement ceremonies at Geneva High School at which it was unveiled that the city had claimed ownership of the moon. The "Declaration of Lunar Ownership" contained 35 signatures, and was revealed simultaneously with the city's 100th anniversary. It claimed that the "physical property of the moon shall belong exclusively to the citizens of Geneva, Ohio," and that unfriendly acts upon the city would be responded to with "all human dignity and moral circumspection." The city also held the right to rent or lease its moon holdings via a two-thirds vote of the city's entire population, and provided for the sale of 100 deeds for 100 acres of land, each acre priced at US$100.
Notable residents Brian Anderson, a Major League Baseball pitcher who played for the California Angels, Cleveland Indians, Arizona Diamondbacks (with whom he won a World Series in 2001) and Kansas City Royals Emy Coligado, an actress best-known for her role as Piama on the sitcom Malcolm in the Middle Edward S. Ellis, an author best known for writing hundreds of dime novels under his own name and various noms de plume Ransom E. Olds, a pioneer in the automobile industry and namesake of the Oldsmobile and REO brands Platt Rogers Spencer, a calligrapher who invented Spencerian Script, a form of cursive handwriting, and namesake of Spencer Elementary School Freeman Thorpe, an artist who has 46 works listed in the Smithsonian Institution's Inventory of American Paintings and Sculptures, eight of which (including a painting of Abraham Lincoln) are housed within the United States Capitol
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