The first cabin was built in 1802 not far from where the Bessemer depot now stands, and near the Conneaut creek, close to a spring. The next year a two story log house was built at the rear of the present Presbyterian church. The name Power, and the descendants of the Power family, has been intimately connected with the history of the village. Snow Place Conneautville is from the Indian word closely resembling Conneaut. It means snow place.
Accurate translation is place of lingering snows.
The Indians at the advent of the white men in 1800 and before referred to the high interior lands south from the lake shore area as the area where the snows remained late in the spring. A wide area received the name. This included Conneaut Lake, Conneaut township, Crawford and Ashtabula counties, Conneaut creek and Conneautville. Conneautville gained in importance. Canal days covered the period from 1845 to 1870.