Columbia Township (Lorain County, Ohio)

Lorain County

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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 name, while Columbia Station for postal purposes is used because there are several townships named Columbia in Ohio. The post office name was chosen to distinguish the Township of the Columbia townships in Hamilton County and Meigs County. If from the township even be a separate municipality, this probably Columbia Station is hot. Currently there are no communities in the township. At the 2000 census, the township had a total population of 6,912 residents living in 2,452 dwellings.

History

Columbia Township was part of the Connecticut Western Reserve. The townships that were measured here, had a length and width of each 5 miles ( about 8 km) and not, as is common elsewhere in the neighboring U.S. states, a length and width of each 6 miles ( 9.7 km ). In 1805, two years after Ohio became the 17th state of the USA, the federal government reached through contracts with Indian tribes in the area that includes the area west of the Cuyahoga River could be colonized. So from Waterbury (Connecticut) laid the Bronson and Hoadley family together all their savings to buy an entire township. They sought out the township 5N, range 15 W, and bought it on April 7, 1807 to $ 20,087, without having seen it before.

Thus, the two families were among the first settlers west of the Cuyahoga River and Columbia Township is the longest of white settlers permanently inhabited territory in the area. Therefore Columbia Township also boasts other unique features: Here is the first classroom west of the Cuyahoga was established in 1808, Sally Bronson here was the first teacher. The first child who is not descended from a Native American family, was Sally Hoadley, 1809. The first cemetery was established in 1811, the first parish of the Episcopal Church was built here 1809.

Nature Park

The Lorain County Metro Parks Administration opened in Columbia Township in 2003, the Columbia Reservation. A 166 -acre nature park with wetlands covering an area of ​​115 acres in the floodplain of the Rocky River. There are five kilometers of trails, where you can wander among marshes, ponds, marshes, and bogs. The area is popular with birdwatchers Especially since there are more than 50 bird species, including the Canada Heron ( Ardea herodias). It is planned to extend the park by 32 acres.