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Painesville

American  
[paynz-vil] / ˈpeɪnz vɪl /

noun

  1. a city in NE Ohio, on Lake Erie.


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“He can contest it the way Gore did in 2000,” offered Tom Griggs, a Painesville steelworker.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 31, 2016

But in 1961, at the age of 23, Jack was killed in a motorcycle crash in Painesville.

From Washington Times ● Mar. 21, 2015

Painesville, Ohio, 30 miles east of Cleveland, offers a snapshot of some people caught up in the system.

From New York Times ● Apr. 7, 2014

She taught at Lake Erie College for Women in Painesville, Ohio, and Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., before joining the Georgetown faculty in the mid-1960s.

From Washington Post

In 1806, Nathan Perry and family and Judge Walworth removed to Cleveland the latter from Painesville.

From Cleveland Past and Present Its Representative Men by Maurice Joblin

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