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Folger Ghost Town Linked to Elyria Mayor Thomas Folger
Folger, a rail near Avon Lake, was named for Thomas Folger a Civil War veteran and Elyria mayor in 1903. The Folger post office operated 1891 to 1918 and Folger’s vineyard helped Lorain County fame.
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Lorain County
Folger
Avon-Avon Lake
Norfolk Southern Railway
Thomas Folger
Elyria
Avon Station
New York, Chicago & St. Louis
Wadsworth
Henry
Eliza (Ingersoll) Folger
America
Nantucket Island
Massachusetts
Charles
United States
Ulysses Grant
the Treasury
James Garfield
Chester Arthur
Thomas
Ohio Volunteer Infantry
Gettysburg
Chancellorsville
Peters Mountain
Virginia
Atlanta
William Tecumseh Sherman
Cleveland
Avon Township
Avon Point
Ohio
Avon Lake
Della
Anna
Ida
Josephine
Jean
C.W. Johnston
Americus V. Rice
Rice
U.S. Army