Welcome to Portage County, Ohio Genealogy and History A Part of the Genealogy Trails Group     Volunteers Dedicated to Free Genealogy This Site is Available for Adoption Our goal is to help you track your ancestors through time by transcribing genealogical and historical data and placing it online for the free use of all researchers. WANT TO HELP? Join us in our efforts to Keep Genealogy Free! If you are interested in hosting this website, view our Volunteer Page for further information and then contact us. (Enough knowledge to make a basic webpage and a desire to transcribe data is required) Check your attics! Dust off your family scrapbooks! We're looking for DATA for this site!!! If you are interested in adding your families' information to this website Email US We'll be happy to help your families' obituaries, news items and other historical data find a home here at Genealogy Trails, where it will remain free for all to view. WE REGRET THAT WE ARE UNABLE TO DO PERSONAL RESEARCH FOR YOU. ALL DATA IS ADDED TO THE SITE AS WE COME ACROSS IT so you'll want to keep checking back here. County Information Founded June 7, 1807 from parts of Trumbull County The county seat is Ravenna Portage comes from an old Native American path called "Portage Trail", which ran between the Cuyahoga and Tuscarawas rivers, where travelers portaged their canoes. The first European settler in what is now Portage County was Abraham Honey in 1798 in the area now known as Mantua Township, followed by Asa Hall in what is now Atwater Township in April 1799. In June 1799, Benjamin Tappan, Jr. arrived and founded Ravenna, David Daniels came to what is now Palmyra Township, and Ebenezer Sheldon settled in what is now Aurora. (source: wikipedia)   Bradys Leap, Kent OH Towns and Villages Townships Diamond - Wayland- Aurora - Brady Lake - Garrettsville - Hiram - Kent - Mantua - Mogadore - Ravenna - Streetsboro - Sugarbush Knolls - Windham Atwater - Bromfield - Charlestown - Deerfield- Edinburg - Franklin - Freedom - Hiram - Mantua- Nelson - Palmyra - Paris - Randolph - Ravenna - Rootstown - Shalersville - Suffield - Windham  Online Data Biographies Birth Records Cemeteries Census Church Histories / Records County Records Death Records Family Bibles County History Marriage Records Military Records Miscellaneous Data Newspaper Gleanings Obituaries and Death Notices School Records Wills/Probate Records Website Updates: Apr 2013: BARTLETT, HINMAN bio Feb 2013: SMITH obit; More of the 1850 Mortality Census Schedule SUBMIT AN OBIT -- SEARCH OUR SITES Join our Genealogy Trails Midwest States Mailing List to get email notices when our county sites are updated. For the Midwestern States of : Indiana -- Nebraska -- Iowa -- Indiana -- Missouri -- Kansas Illinois is covered on our original Illinois Trails Mailing List   Adjacent Counties Geauga ( north) Mahoning (southeast) Stark (south) Summit (west ) Trumbull (east) Cuyahoga (northwest corner) Ohio State Page Visit our National Site JOIN US! DEDICATED TO FREE GENEALOGY   Copyright © Genealogy Trails All data on this website is Copyright by Genealogy Trails with full rights reserved for original submitters.