Lancaster City, Fairfield County, Ohio (OH)

Lancaster City

Fairfield County, Ohio

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The Lancaster Municipal Building is located at 104 East Main Street, Lancaster OH 43130.
Phone: 740‑6800‑6600.

Neighborhoods

  • Avery Hills
  • Baldwin Heights
  • Brentwood
  • Brookdale Farms
  • Brydan
  • Cedar Heights
  • Chatford Place
  • Cobblestone Condos
  • College Green
  • Collegeview
  • Collegeview Acres
  • Colonial Estates
  • Cooks Pond
  • Creekside Estates
  • Deacon Hill
  • Eagle Park Addition
  • East Lawn
  • Edgewood Park
  • Ewing Run Estates
  • Fairfield Building Condos
  • Harbaugh
  • Heather Lake
  • Hickory Ridge Estates
  • Hills Snd Dales
  • Hunter Trace
  • Hunters Addition
  • Keinans Addition
  • Kline Addition
  • Lenmar Woods
  • Lincoln
  • Mahers
  • Meadow Ridge
  • Misty Meadows
  • Overlook Reserve
  • Pairan Woods
  • Pheasant Ridge
  • Pine Lake Estates
  • Pioneer Addition
  • Rae High Acres
  • Rising Park
  • River Valley Highlands
  • Rolling Mill Addition
  • Rush Creek Estates
  • Snyder
  • Stonington Village
  • Strentz
  • Tennants
  • The Woods
  • Tipples Lakeside Estates
  • Valley View Farms
  • Villages at Sherman Bluff
  • Villas at Roxton Ravine
  • Villas at Sherman Bluff
  • Wacker
  • Wacker Heights
  • Wesley Hills
  • Wesley Woods
  • Windy Hills Estates
  • Woods at Stone Run
  • Wrights Addition

Lancaster [1]

Ebenezer Zane was the original proprietor of the town. He was already the owner of one section of land at the crossing of Hocking. Upon that tract Lancaster now stands. In the fall of 1800, Mr. Zane laid out and sold the first lots. The rates ranged from $5.00 to $50.00 a lot, according to location. A large proportion of the first settlers of Lancaster were mechanics, who erected cabins with little delay, finding the materials mainly on their lots. To encourage emigration, Mr. Zane gave a few lots to such mechanics as would agree to build cabins on them and go to work at their respective trades; and it is said, that the work of organization went on so rapidly, that by the spring of 1801 the streets and alleys in the central part of the town assumed the shape they still retain. "New Lancaster" was the name first given to the place, in compliment to emigrants from Lancaster, PA, who made up a considerable portion of the first settlers. The name however was changed by the Legislature in 1805, to Lancaster, Ohio, to avoid confusion in the postal service. The title, New Lancaster, nevertheless continued to be used for more than twenty years afterwards.

  1. Scott, Harvey, A Complete History of Fairfield County, Ohio: 1796-1876, Siebery & Lilley, Columbus 1877.

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