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Mentor Ohio
Mentor is just 30 minutes east of downtown Cleveland. This lakefront community boasts a 930 acre park system with 11 community parks, 3 swimming pools, an ice arean with 2 ice rinks, inline skating parks and miles of bike and jogging trails.
Boaters and naturilists will enjoy the great outdoors at the Mentor Lagoons Nature Preserve and Marina.
Bargain hungers will love shopping in the 6th largest retail center in the state of Ohio.
Mentor is home to Headlands State Park on Lake Erie, 3 lakefront nature preserves, and Lawnfield, the restore home of 20th President James A. Garfield.
The name of Mentor came from Greek literature. Mentor was the tutor of Telemachus, who was the son of Odysseus. One of the first settlers was Charles Parker, a surveyor with the Connecticut Land Company, who came in 1797. In the east, rumors had it that the streets were almost paved in gold out in the "west." Pioneers came with all their earthly possessions to make a new life. People settled into their new homes and quickly built up their town, including churches, schools and libraries.