What is the history of Celina, Ohio?
Celina was founded in 1834 in a swampy, wooded area that had to be drained and cleared before it could be settled. What remained was a level town surrounded by rich farm fields. When one of the town’s founding fathers was traveling through New York state to get the town plat lithographed, he came across the town of Salina, New YorkSalina situated on the edge of Onondaga Lake near Syracuse, New YorkSyracuse. Noting the similarity between Salina and the newly founded settlement in Ohio, he named the new town Celina. The spelling was changed to avoid confusion at the post office, or so the story goes. Source: http://en.wikipedia.
