Albany (Ohio)

Athens County

39-01042

Albany is a village in Athens County, Ohio, United States.

Location

Albany is located in the southeastern part of the State of Ohio, 100 km southeast of the capital Columbus and 250 km south of Lake Erie at 39 ° 14 ' N, 82 ° 12' W39.228888888889 - 82.200277777778. At Albany over U.S. Highway 50, the last remaining transcontinental route that has not been converted to Interstate Highway and leads across nearly 5,000 miles from Ocean City, Maryland on the Atlantic east coast of the continent to San Francisco on the Pacific west coast runs. 16 km northeast of Albany is the historic city of Athens with 21,342 inhabitants, founded in 1804 Ohio University.

History

The establishment of the farming village of Albany in Ohio goes back to the year 1842. Albany was at that time the base sogenanannten Underground Railroad, an informal network, granted the escaped slave from the southern states support. Since some of the former slaves settled in Albany and the population rose, was already founded in 1847, the Lewis Academy, a private school first, of a pure white private school followed a few years later.

Population

The population of the town has grown by about 3 % in the current decade, from 808 inhabitants ( 2000 census ) to 833 residents ( update 2007).

The 808 inhabitants of Albany lived in the 2000 census in 352 households, of which 51.4 % and 26.7 % secluded couples with children under 18 years. 97.3 % of the population were white, 1.1% African American. , 1.5% Latinos.

The average age of the population was 40 years, 20.7% of the population were under 18 years 8.5% 18-24 years, 29.6% 25-44 years, 24.8% 45-64 years, and 16.5 % were 65 years and older.

Economy

Albany's economy is primarily based on agriculture. In 2000, the average income per household was $ 31.534 and $ 16.047 per person. 8.3% of families and 13.2 % of the total population of the village are below the poverty line, including 22.6% of under -18 -year-old and 15.0 % of the over -65 -year-old.

Festivals

The annual " Ohio Pawfest Festival " is held every year in September at Lake Snowden near Albany instead, in honor of the largest native fruit of North America, the pawpaw (English " pawpaw "). There will also be in every first week of September, " Albany Independent Fair" in Albany Equestrian Club held one of the few independent festivals in Ohio.