Lancaster, Ohio City of Lancaster, Ohio Lancaster as viewed from Mount Pleasant in 2006 Lancaster as viewed from Mount Pleasant in 2006 Location of Lancaster, Ohio Location of Lancaster, Ohio Location of Lancaster in Fairfield County Location of Lancaster in Fairfield County State Ohio Lancaster (local pronunciation / l ek st r/ lang-k s-t r or even / l ekst r/ langk-st r) is a town/city in Fairfield County, Ohio, United States.
It is positioned near the Hocking River, approximately 33 miles (53 km) southeast of Columbus and is the governmental center of county of Fairfield County. The current mayor of Lancaster is Republican Brian S.
5.3 The Decorative Arts Center of Ohio 5.4 Ohio Glass Museum The earliest known inhabitants of the southeastern and central Ohio region were the Hopewell, Adena, and Fort Ancient Native Americans, of whom little evidence survived, beyond the burial and ceremonial mounds assembled throughout the Ohio and Mississippi valleys.
Prior to and immediately after European settlement, the territory today comprising Lancaster and Fairfield County, Ohio was inhabited variously by the Shawnee, Iroquois, Wyandot, and other Native American tribes.
It served as a natural crossroads for the intertribal and intra-tribal wars fought at various times. (See also: Beaver Wars) Noted frontier explorer Christopher Gist reached the vicinity of Lancaster on January 19, 1751, when he visited the small Delaware town of "Hockhocking" nearby.
Having been ceded to the United States by Great Britain after the American Revolution by the Treaty of Paris, the lands north of the Ohio River and west of the Appalachian Mountains became, in 1784, incorporated into the Northwest Territory.
White pioneer began to encroach on Native American lands in the Ohio Territory.
Knowing that such speculation, combined with Congressional grants of territory sections to veterans of the Revolution, could result in a lucrative opportunity, Ebenezer Zane in 1796 petitioned the United States Congress to grant him a contract to blaze a trail through Ohio, from Wheeling, West Virginia, to Limestone, Kentucky, (near undivided Maysville, Kentucky) a distance of 266 miles (428 km).
Zane's Trace, as it has turn into known, was instead of by 1797, and as Zane's sons began to carve the square-mile tract astride the Hocking into saleable plots, the town/city of Lancaster formally came into being in 1800.
Lancaster predated the formal establishment of the state of Ohio by three years.
Ohio's longest continuously operating newspaper, the Lancaster Eagle-Gazette was born of a consolidation of the early Der Ohio Adler, established about 1807, with the Ohio Gazette, established in the 1830s.
The two newspapers were ferocious competitors since they were on opposite sides of the American Civil War, as was the split populace of the town/city itself, until they consolidated seventy-two years after the war's end in 1937.
The journal is presently part of the Newspaper Network of Central Ohio, which is in turn a unit of Gannett Company, Inc.
Initially known as New Lancaster, and later shortened by town/city ordinance (1805), the town quickly grew; formal incorporation as a town/city came in 1831.
Modern Lancaster is distinguished by a rich blend of 19th-century architecture (best evidenced in historic Square 13, part of Zane's initial plot) and natural beauty (best evidenced by the famous Standing Stone, today known as Mount Pleasant) with all the typical undivided accoutrements of a small-medium-sized American city.
Lancaster is home to the Lancaster ground of Ohio University, offering a range of two- and four-year baccalaureate degrees, and a several master's programs.
Lancaster is home to the Lancaster Festival, an 11-day arts and music festival.
Lancaster is home to both the Decorative Arts Center of Ohio and the Ohio Glass Museum, both positioned inside the downtown area.
Lancaster is home to the Lancaster Eagle-Gazette newspaper.
The 1948 20th Century Fox movie Green Grass of Wyoming was filmed at the Fairfield County Fairground in Lancaster, making it the first improve in Ohio to act as the setting for a feature length Hollywood movie.
Lancaster is home to the Fairfield County Fair, a seven-day fair and the last (88th) county fair in Ohio each year, always on the second week of October.
The Fairfield County Fair also includes lots of food, exhibits, games, and rides for citizens of all ages.
A famous Lancaster landmark is Mount Pleasant, a 250-foot (76 m) high sandstone bluff called "Standing Stone" by earlier Native American citizens s.
It is positioned in Rising Park, a large town/city park on the city's north side.
Once one has reached the top, there is a lookout region from which one can see over great distances, and take in not just a panoramic view of the close-by Fairfield County fairgrounds and much of the town/city of Lancaster, but the changing landscape of Central Ohio as well from the mostly flat farmlands north of Lancaster to the wooded hills lying south of the city.
Converted into a exhibition, it is now furnished as it would have been in the 1830s with some initial pieces and various early Fairfield County, Ohio items.
Located in one of Lancaster's three National Historic Districts, the structure mixes elements of American, Georgian and Regency architecture. The Decorative Arts Center of Ohio is a not-for-profit exhibition whose mission is to foster knowledge and appreciation of the decorative arts; jubilate the architecture and tradition of the Reese-Peters House; and movement the vitality and integrity of historic Lancaster.
Opened in 2002, the Ohio Glass Museum is positioned in historic downtown Lancaster and dedicated to recording the history of the glass industry, which for over 100 years has been one of the mainstays of the economy of Fairfield County. Lancaster was the place of birth of Civil War General William Tecumseh Sherman and his brother, Senator John Sherman.
Lancaster is positioned at 39 43 N 82 36 W (39.7193, -82.6053). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 18.90 square miles (48.95 km2), of which 18.84 square miles (48.80 km2) is territory and 0.06 square miles (0.16 km2) is water. The ethnic makeup of the town/city was 95.9% White, 1% African American, 0.5% Asian, 0.30% Native American, 0% Pacific Islander, 0.6% from other competitions, and 1.7% from two or more competitions.
In the town/city the age distribution of the populace shows 24% under the age of 18, and 15.7% who were 65 years of age or older.
Army and General of the Army of the United States from 1869 to 1883 Rex Kern, football quarterback, Ohio State Buckeyes football 1968 nationwide championship team, All-American, College Football Hall of Fame (2007); played defensive back for the NFL's Buffalo Bills and Baltimore Colts Lantz, lawyer and Ohio state legislator Moe, colonel, United States Air Force, retired, director of Ohio Department of Veterans Services and member of Ohio Veterans Hall of Fame United States Enumeration Bureau.
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"Number of Inhabitants: Ohio" (PDF).
18th Enumeration of the United States.
"Ohio: Population and Housing Unit Counts" (PDF).
Municipalities and communities of Fairfield County, Ohio, United States County seat: Lancaster
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