Amherst ( AM hərst) is a city in Lorain County, Ohio, United States. It is located 28 miles (45 km) west of Cleveland within the Cleveland metropolitan area. The population was 12,681 at the 2020 census.
At a Glance
- County: Lorain County
- State: Ohio
History of Amherst
The original village, which eventually became known as Amherst, was established/founded by pioneer settler Jacob Shupe (who came to this area in 1811; however, what would become the specific “downtown” area was settled by Josiah Harris in 1818), although the original tiny village was first known only as "Amherst Corners" in the early 1830s. When the village plat was officially recorded in 1836, it was simply named the "town plat of Amherst", but became "Amherstville" circa 1839, and was later changed to "North Amherst", until finally again simply ‘Amherst’ in 1909. (The original 1820s postal name of the village’s first post office was "Plato"; and the village’s post office retained that postal name into the 1840s, even after the local government name of the village officially became ‘Amherstville’ by 1840.)
Land which was settled in 1811 by Jacob Shupe, in the "Beaver Creek Settlement" (about a mile north of the later village site), was eventually included into the Amherst city limits. Shupe’s built his own grist mill/saw mill and distillery.
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