The first known registered survey for what was, 40 years later, to become the City of Lorain, Ohio. This village was originally officially 'platted' about 1822, by pioneer John S. Reid upon the farm that he had purchased at the mouth of the Black River about 1808; and after his death, additional village lots were added within the above 'plat' by his son Conrad Reid and his sons-in-laws Daniel T. Baldwin, Quartus Gillmore, and Barna Meeker. The village was renamed "Charleston" in 1836, although that name was quickly rejected by most its own citizens, and it was publicly known almost continuously, as simply "Black River village", until it was finally named Lorain in 1874.