![]() ![]() ![]() Songwriter Stephen Foster, his wife Jane McDowell, and their daughter Marion lived briefly in Warren. Warren became an important center of trade for farmers living in the surrounding countryside during this period. In June 1846, a fire destroyed several buildings on one side of the town square, but residents soon replaced them with new stores and other businesses. In that same year, the town had five churches, twenty stores, three newspaper offices, one bank, one wool factory and two flourmills. Warren had a population of nearly 1,600 people in 1846. In 1833, Warren contained county buildings, two printing offices, a bank, five mercantile stores, and about 600 inhabitants. The town was the county seat of the Western Reserve, then became the Trumbull County seat in 1801. Quinby named the town for the town's surveyor, Moses Warren. History Trumbull County CourthouseĮphraim Quinby founded Warren in 1798, on 441 acres (1.78 km 2) of land that he purchased from the Connecticut Land Company, as part of the Connecticut Western Reserve. The historical county seat of the Connecticut Western Reserve, it is the third largest municipality in the Youngstown–Warren metropolitan area after Youngstown and Boardman, and anchors the northern part of that area. The population was 39,201 at the 2020 census. Located along the Mahoning River, Warren lies approximately 14 miles (23 km) northwest of Youngstown and 56 miles (90 km) southeast of Cleveland. Warren is a city in and the county seat of Trumbull County, Ohio, United States. ![]()
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