Milan ( MY-lən) is a village in Erie and Huron counties in the U.S. state of Ohio. The population was 1,367 at the 2010 census. It is best known as the birthplace and childhood house of Thomas Edison.

The Erie County ration of Milan is allowance of the Sandusky Metropolitan Statistical Area, while the Huron County portion is part of the Norwalk Micropolitan Statistical Area.

Milan village was platted by Ebenezer Merry in 1817 upon the site of a before abandoned Moravian Indian mission village, named “Petquotting”, (1805-1809). Merry dammed the Huron River under the village and established “Merrys Mills”, a gristmill and sawmill in the river valley. Milan village, originally named ‘Beatty’, was incorporated as ‘Milan’ in 1833, named after Milan, Italy. Prior to the advent of railroads, regional farmers had to bring their harvests to Lake Erie ports by wagon. The sandy and wet prairies north and west of Milan were not easily crossed by a wagon subsequently a muggy harvest load. Beginning in 1826, local investors proposed a boat canal that would make Milan a lake harbor that could simply connect to the supplementary Erie Canal, allowing take up regional commerce in the same way as New York City.

Construction of the Milan Canal began in 1833 and it opened to lake navigation upon July 4, 1839. The peak year of commerce was 1847. For 15 years or more, the village prospered as one of the busiest ports upon the Great Lakes. Large numbers of wagons bringing agricultural products to Milan would often line going on for miles to the south.