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Madison Township
Madison Township is the largest Township in the State of Ohio. It is contained within the boundaries of Lake County, the smallest county in the state. Through the years, the township has been a part of Trumbull, Richfield, Chapin, Geauga, and Lake counties. All of these are a part of the Great Western Reserve a 120-mile strip along the southern coastline of Lake Erie, westward from the Pennsylvania border, and originally owned by the State of Connecticut.

The first settlement was called Chapintown, recorded in 1802. The name was later changed to Centerville, and became Madison Township in 1811.

Madison Village
Madison Village was incorporated in 1867. It is proud of its great concentration of Historic buildings. The most recent count identified at least 26 buildings which bear the Heritage Home plaque awarded by the Lake County Historical Society. Furthermore, twenty-eight village and township structures have been entered in the National Register of Historic Places by the U.S. Department of the Interior.

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