Perry County Ohio
Perry County was established in 1818 as Ohio’s 55th county. It is named in honor of Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry to commemorate his victory over the British fleet at the Battle of Lake Erie in September 1813, which was a turning point in the War of 1812. Rich coal mining reserves drove the settlement of the county’s Little Cities of Black Diamonds, the coal mining boomtowns that sprung to life in the region and thrived until the first half of the 1900s.
