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Warren was founded in 1798 by Ephraim Quinby, who bought 441 acres from the Connecticut Land Company and named the town for Moses Warren, a surveyor of the Connecticut Western Reserve.

Warren was the first permanent settlement in the Connecticut Western Reserve and was originally founded as the capital of the Western Reserve territory, carrying the motto "Historic Capital of the Western Reserve."

In 1801 Warren became the seat of Trumbull County, which at that time encompassed the entire Connecticut Western Reserve.

Four acres set aside in the center of the original town plat survive today as Courthouse Square Park, the historic heart of downtown Warren.

Warren is the county seat and largest city of Trumbull County, with a population of 39,201 at the 2020 census and about 16,871 households in recent Census Bureau surveys.

Warren grew into a steel and manufacturing center along the Mahoning River — the Trumbull Steel plant built in 1906 was the first integrated steelworks in Trumbull County.

Between 1910 and 1920 Warren's population grew by 144 percent, giving it the distinction of being the fastest-growing town in Ohio during that decade.

The Packard brothers founded their automobile company in Warren before moving it to Detroit, and the city's National Packard Museum preserves that legacy; Packard Electric, later part of General Motors, was headquartered in Warren for nearly a century.

Rock musician Dave Grohl, drummer of Nirvana and frontman of the Foo Fighters, was born in Warren on January 14, 1969, and downtown's David Grohl Alley — dedicated in 2009 — honors him with murals and a pair of drumsticks billed as the world's largest, at about 900 pounds apiece.

The Western Reserve Greenway, a 43-mile paved rail-trail managed in part by Trumbull County MetroParks, runs through the Warren area for biking, walking, and running.