Lake County YMCA (#6-43)
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N 41° 41.723 W 081° 15.780
17T E 478115 N 4615988
A marker placed to commemorate the second oldest YMCAs in continuous existence in Ohio.
Waymark Code: WM6FGT
Location: Ohio, United States
Date Posted: 05/26/2009
Views: 9
On this site, the evening of December 29, 1866, a group of men gathered in the First Baptist Church for a prayer meeting which resulted in the founding of the Painesville Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA). Two years later the YMCA outgrew its headquarters at the Baptist Church and moved to upstairs rooms at 71 Main Street. In 1905 it purchased the former Steele mansion on Painesville's Park Place and relocated once again. The Painesville YMCA and the county YMCA merged in 1922 to become the Lake County YMCA, the second oldest YMCA in continuous existence in Ohio.
Marker Number: 6-43
County: Lake
Significance of Location: Thing
Additional Coordinate: N 41° 42.640 W 081° 15.780
Additional Coordinate description:
Location of the current Painesville YMCA.
Bicentenial Mark: no
Website address: [Web Link]
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