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It is the only township named "Amherst" statewide. Amherst Township was established as a judicially-independent township in 1830, and named after Amherst, New Hampshire . [ 5 ] It had been originally created as "Town(ship) number 6 in the 18th Range" (of the Connecticut Western Reserve); but prior to 1830, it was judicially attached to "Black ...
Location: 206 S. Main St., Amherst, Ohio: Coordinates NRHP reference No. 75001459: Added to NRHP ... Amherst Town Hall is a historic building in Amherst, Ohio.
Amherst (/ ˈ æ m h ər s t / AM-hərst) [5] is a city in Lorain County, Ohio, United States. It is located 28 miles (45 km) west of Cleveland within the Cleveland metropolitan area . The population was 12,681 at the 2020 census .
Lorain County (/ l ɔː ˈ r eɪ n /) is a county in the northeastern part of the U.S. state of Ohio As of the 2020 census, the population was 312,964. [2] Its county seat is Elyria, and its largest city is Lorain. [3]
Amherst is located at (37.576899, −79.050424 According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 5.0 square miles (12.9 km 2), all of it land.. The town is 25 miles southeast of Lexington, 44 miles southwest from Charlottesville, 20 miles northwest from Appomattox, and only 13 miles north of Lynchburg.
Columbia Township, also known as Columbia Station or just Columbia, is the easternmost of the eighteen townships of Lorain County, Ohio, United States.Columbia Township is the official government name, while Columbia Station is the post office name, and tends to be the town name used by residents.
A streetcar for the Amherst and Sunderland Street Railway crosses Amherst Center, in front of the town hall, c. 1903.. The earliest known document of the lands now comprising Amherst is the deed of purchase dated December 1658 between John Pynchon of Springfield and three native inhabitants, referred to as Umpanchla, Quonquont, and Chickwalopp. [7]
Amherst County is served by Amherst County Public Schools, which operates one central high school, two middle schools, and several elementary schools. [16] Temple Christian School is a private school located on the grounds of Temple Baptist Church. [17] Sweet Briar College is also located in Amherst County, just south of the town of Amherst.