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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.
The property was acquired by the Town of Amherst and New York State in January 2000, after both entities evenly split the $5 million price to purchase the former convent and surrounding area. New York State owns 77 acres (0.31 km 2) of the property while the Town of Amherst owns the remaining three acres (1.2 ha) of the park's lands. Under an ...
Amherst (/ ˈ æ m h ər s t / ⓘ [3]) is a town in Erie County, New York, United States.It is a suburb of Buffalo.As of 2020, the town had a total population of 129,595. [4] This represents an increase from 122,366 as reported in the 2010 census. [5]
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.
Spearheaded by the city Department of Environmental Services, construction on the nearly $2.45 million Ka polei project began in 2021 and was recently completed.
In 1953, Amherst voters passed the "Town Manager Act", which established the office of a town manager and reduced a number of elected positions. [10] In 1995, a charter commission was approved to study Amherst's government; the charter majority recommended a seven-person Council and a mayor, while also maintaining a reduced size representative ...
The Hoover House, one of Amherst Museum's historic buildings. Buffalo Niagara Heritage Village is an open-air museum located in Amherst, New York.The Museum's mission is to preserve, interpret, and exhibit the agricultural history and rural heritage of the Buffalo Niagara region.
Amherst Center is a census-designated place (CDP) in the City of Amherst in Hampshire County, Massachusetts, United States. The CDP covers the primary village in town. The population was 19,065 at the 2010 census, [1] out of a total city population of 37,819. It is part of the Springfield, Massachusetts Metropolitan Statistical Area.