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John Andrew Shulze retired to Fairfield Township following his 1823–1829 term as governor of Pennsylvania. Shulze bought 500 acres (2.0 km 2) in western Fairfield Township, now part of Montoursville, for $12,000. His plan was to spend his retirement farming in the West Branch Susquehanna Valley. Shulze quickly made am impact in Fairfield ...
Fairfield Township is a township in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 2,051 at the 2020 census. The population was 2,051 at the 2020 census. [ 2 ]
Fairfield Township became part of a newly formed Butler County in 1802. [4] For a brief period in 1994 and 1995, the township was incorporated as the City of Indian Springs under a special law enacted by the Ohio General Assembly, but it reverted to township status when this law was declared unconstitutional by the courts. [5]
Portions of the township were taken to form Downe Township (September 26, 1772), Millville Township (February 24, 1801) and Lawrence Township (February 17, 1885). [ 22 ] The name Fairfield refers to its original settlers, who were émigrés from Fairfield , Connecticut who settled in the area in 1697.
Fairfield Township is located in southern Crawford County, bordered to the south by Mercer County.According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of 19.34 square miles (50.08 km 2), of which 19.32 square miles (50.03 km 2) is land and 0.02 square miles (0.05 km 2), or 0.10%, is water. [4]
The Granville Township Trustees on Wednesday approved an overlay zoning district, which would create stricter zoning regulations than the regular zoning code within defined areas of the township ...
The constitutionality of zoning ordinances was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in Village of Euclid, Ohio v. Ambler Realty Co. in 1926. The zoning ordinance of Euclid, Ohio was challenged in court by a local land owner on the basis that restricting use of property violated the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. Ambler ...
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