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North Olmsted is a city in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, United States. As of the 2020 census, the city population was 32,442. North Olmsted is a west side suburb of Cleveland, Ohio, and is the 8th most populated city within Cuyahoga County.
After the European discovery of the New World, the land that became North Olmsted was originally part of the French colony of Canada (New France), which was ceded in 1763 to Great Britain and renamed Province of Quebec. In the late 18th century the land became part of the Connecticut Western Reserve in the Northwest Territory, then was purchased by the Connecticut Land Company in 1795.
In 1806, the vast tract of land comprising present-day North Olmsted, Olmsted Falls and Olmsted Township was purchased for $30,000 by Aaron Olmsted, a wealthy sea captain. In 1815, David Johnson Stearns of Vermont was followed by other pioneers from New England who established a settlement in the wilderness.[5] It was first called Plum Creek Township, an unofficial name, in 1807 and then in 1814 surveyors called it Kingston.[6] On April 14, 1823 the people organized into a township called Lenox.[7][8] In 1909, the city of North Olmsted came into being.[9]
Charles Hyde Olmsted was Aaron Olmsted’s son. He offered books from Connecticut to his father if Lenox residents would change the name of the neighborhood to Olmsted in his honor. These books were later known as the Ox Cart Library. [10]