The story so far
from Wikipedia & the U.S. CensusBrownhelm Township is one of the eighteen townships of Lorain County, Ohio, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population was 7,877. Brownhelm was the first local government of any kind in the United States to elect a black man to public office; on April 2, 1855, John Mercer Langston, a black man from Virginia, became town clerk. He later became a United States congressman.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 7,618 to 7,877 (+3%). Half of its homes were built before 1974.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Brownhelm yet — the old photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Intro from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Population and housing: U.S. Census Bureau.
Start Brownhelm’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Brownhelm’s history is told.
0 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Brownhelm, decade by decade
2000
1 historic place in Brownhelm
1 place in Brownhelm is on the National Register of Historic Places, the country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.
Where they are
When they were listed
Then & now
When neighbors add old photos, retakes from the same spot appear here side by side.