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Welcome to Lima/Allen County Ohio where home town feel meets big city amenities.
Lima (pronounced li´må) is the county seat and the largest inland city in west central Ohio.
The history of Lima/Allen County links closely to the development of the Northwest Territory. French and English explorers of the early 1700’s made the area a major fur trading center. Due to the vast, heavily wooded swampland formed by receding glaciers of the Ice Age, it was known as the “Black Swamp.” The conclusion of the War of 1812 led to further development of the Northwest Territory and the first permanent settlement in the area was in 1831. Lima was officially named and designated as the county seat and was incorporated in 1842. By the 1860’s, lumber and milling became the area’s major industry. With the rapid expansion of the Midwest in the 1850’s, Lima became a major junction point for five railroad freight and passenger lines. This resulted in the founding of the Lima Locomotive Works, the third largest producer of locomotives in the nation. The subsequent discovery of oil in 1885 made Lima/Allen County a major industrial retail trade center of the Midwest.
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