Copley, Ohio

Unincorporated community in Ohio, U.S.

Copley is an unincorporated community in Summit County, in the U.S. state of Ohio.

History

Variant names were Greenfield and Copley Center.^[1] The first settlement at Copley Center was made around 1819.^[2] The community was named for its location near the geographical center of Copley Township.^[2] A post office called Copley Centre was established in 1835, the name was changed to Copley in 1841, and the post office closed in 1957.^[3]

Notable People

Delia L. Weatherby (1843—1916) social reformer and author^[4]

References

^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Copley, Ohio
^ ^a ^b Perrin, William Henry (1881). History of Summit County: With an Outline Sketch of Ohio. Baskin & Battey. p. 645.
^ "Summit County". Jim Forte Postal History. Archived from the original on January 29, 2016. Retrieved January 23, 2016.
^ Willard, Frances Elizabeth, 1839-1898; Livermore, Mary Ashton Rice, 1820-1905 (1893). A woman of the century; fourteen hundred-seventy biographical sketches accompanied by portraits of leading American women in all walks of life. Buffalo, N.Y., Moulton. pp. 754–755. Retrieved August 8, 2017.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.