Parma is a city in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, United States, located on
the southern edge of Cleveland. As of the 2010 census it is the
seventh largest city in the state of Ohio and the second largest city
in Cuyahoga County after Cleveland.In 1806, the area that would
eventually become Parma and Parma Heights was originally surveyed by
Abraham Tappan, a surveyor for the Connecticut Land Company, and was
known as Township 6 - Range 13. This designation gave the town its
first identity in the Western Reserve. Soon after, Township 6 - Range
13 was commonly referred to as "Greenbriar," supposedly for the
rambling bush that grew there. Benajah Fay, his wife Ruth Wilcox Fay,
and their ten children, arrivals from Lewis County, New York, were the
first settlers in 1816. It was then that Greenbriar, under a newly
organized government seat under Brooklyn Township, began attending to
its own governmental needs.In 1806, the area that would eventually
become Parma and Parma Heights was originally surveyed by Abraham
Tappan, a surveyor for the Connecticut Land Company, and was known as
Township 6 - Range 13. This designation gave the town its first
identity in the Western Reserve. Soon after, Township 6 - Range 13 was
commonly referred to as "Greenbriar," supposedly for the rambling bush
that grew there. Benajah Fay, his wife Ruth Wilcox Fay, and their ten
children, arrivals from Lewis County, New York, were the first
settlers in 1816. It was then that Greenbriar, under a newly organized
government seat under Brooklyn Township, began attending to its own
governmental needs.Self-government started to gain in popularity by
the time the new Greenbriar settlement contained twenty householders.
However, prior to the establishment of the new township, the name
Greenbriar was replaced by the name Parma. This was largely due to Dr.
David Long who had recently returned from Italy and "impressed with
the grandeur and beauty...was reminded of Parma, Italy and...persuaded
the early townspeople that the territory deserved a better name than
Greenbriar."Thus, on March 7, 1826, a resolution was passed ordering
the construction of the new township. It stated, Parma, Ohio Top Movies & Young Movies