One of the earliest buildings, constructed on the green in 1825, was used for church services and Township meetings and housed Vienna Academy, an early "English School" for boys. This parcel also contains Vienna Township Cemetery. Upon this green now stands Vienna Presbyterian Church, Vienna Methodist Church, the Copper Penny Masonic Lodge (built as the two-story Vienna School Number 1), the Soldiers and Sailors Monument, and the Bicentennial Gazebo. Eight acres on the northwest corner of Vienna Center was purchased from proprietors Uriel Holmes and Ephraim Root by the Presbyterian Society (an ecclesiastical society formed for the purposes of non-theological business of the Vienna Presbyterian Church) for $20.00. On June 20, 1810, a township green was established in what would be called Vienna Center. Connecticut surrendered its sovereignty of the Western Reserve in 1800, and the land was absorbed into the Northwest Territory and as part of Ohio when that state entered the Union in 1803. In 1805, Robbins established Vienna's Congregational Church, which would adopt Presbyterianism in 1854, one of the earliest churches in the state. The Connecticut Missionary Society sent 148 trained ministers to the Connecticut Western Reserve, served by the reverends Joseph Badger, Thomas Robbins, and Nathan Bailey Derrow. The Township's original proprietors were Uriel Holmes, Jr., Ephraim Root, and Timothy Burr. Under the direction of the Connecticut Land Company, this twenty-five-mile-square parcel, initially known as Township 4, Range 2, was surveyed in 1798. Vienna Township was established in the Connecticut Western Reserve. It is part of the Youngstown–Warren metropolitan area. The population was 622 at the 2020 census. Vienna Center ( / v aɪ ˈ ɛ n ə/, sometimes simply Vienna) is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in central Vienna Township, Trumbull County, Ohio, United States.
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