Eliza Northrop Elementary School, which opened in the fall of 2009, is named for the first teacher in the first school in Medina. Eliza Northrop was the daughter of a pioneer family who came to Medina County from Connecticut,  and she taught for one year, 1817-1818, in a small log cabin about one mile east [...]

Medina’s founder, Elijah Boardman, was born in 1760 in New Milford, Connecticut. He was a Revolutionary War veteran who eventually became one of the wealthiest men in New England.
This portrait by noted American artist, Ralph Earl, tells us a great deal about Boardman.  He was tall and handsome, and judging from the writing materials and [...]