ELYRIA, a city of northern Ohio, U.S.A., on the Black river, 8m. S. of Lake Erie and 25m. W.S.W. of Cleveland; the county seat of Lorain county. It is on Federal highway 20, and is served by the Baltimore and Ohio and the New York Central railways, and by inter-urban trolley and motor bus lines. The population was 20,474 in 192o (16% foreign-born white) ; was 25,633 in 193o by Federal census and about 32,00o including immediate suburbs. The city has an altitude of 72oft., and lies at the junction of the east and west branches of the Black river, each of which falls about t. here, in beautiful Cascade park. There are numerous and varied manufactures, including laces, furnaces and heaters, invalid chairs, alloys, hosiery, motors, fishing tackle, chemicals, portable cranes, golf balls, automobiles, cold rolled steel, seamless pipe, marine and stationary engines and radios. The aggregate out put in 1927 was valued at $33,518,308. In 1816 Heman Ely of Massachusetts visited land owned by his father in the Connecticut Western Reserve, and contracted for the building of a grist-mill, a saw-mill and a cabin. He returned the next March with skilled workmen and labourers, took possession of the cabin, and called the town Elyria. It was selected for the county seat in 1823, and was chartered as a city in 1892.