Mentor History

Mentor celebrated the Bicentennial of the first permanent settlement in 1797. One of the first settlers was Charles Parker, arrived in 1797. This township was one of six "best" townships in the Western Reserve, which were set aside to be offered for sale directly to actual settlers.

Mentor became a township in 1815. In the early development of Mentor, four separate population areas grew. The Mentor Library Company was organized in 1819 and schools were one room school houses.The first was the Marsh Settlement, on the lakeshore at what was then called Hopkins Point (since washed into Lake
Erie.) Then came Mentor Centre at the corner of Center Street and Mentor Avenue. A settlement at the east end of Mentor near the Painesville Township line on the Ridge Road (Rt. 20) Finally, a settlement stayed on Jackson Street and the Marsh Road (now called Hopkins). In 1819 the Mentor Library Company was organized.

People walked 14 miles to get a book from the library. The schools began as one room school buildings, serving small clusters of homes. Through much of the 19th century and into the early years of the 20th Mentor was a divided community. West Mentor included the Village and ran from Burridge Avenue to the Willoughby limits. East Mentor ran the opposite way from Burridge Avenue to Painesville. This was not a legal, or even a very precise division, but it was certainly a real one. Each community had its own business district with its own meat market and grocery, pharmacy, barber and even two post offices only 1/2 mile apart. Mentor became a nursery center due to its good soil and tempering effect of Lake Erie.

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