Pittsfield, Ohio
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Pittsfield is a township in Lorain County, Ohio, just south of Oberlin.
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[edit] Geography
Pittsfield Township is located at 41.23745 N, 082.21979 W. It is approximately an 8.05 kilometer by 8.05 kilometer square (5 mile by 5 mile square) and has an area of 68.04 square kilometers (26.27 square miles). The town center is at the intersection of Ohio Route 58 and Ohio Route 303.
[edit] Demographics
According to the United States Census Bureau, in 2000 Pittsfield had 1,549 residents with an average age of 39.33 years. The population density was 22.77 per square kilometer (58.96 per square mile). There were 576 housing units. The median household income was $54,750 and the per capita income was $22,470.
[edit] History
Pittsfield township was part of the Connecticut Western Reserve. There were white settlers before 1813 but they left. Milton Whitney, one of the large landowners in the area, arranged for settlers to move in in 1821. In 1831, the township was separated from Wellington Township and named Pittsfield after Pittsfield, Massachusetts, Milton Whitney's original home. The township government was organized in 1832.
On April 11, 1965, one of the tornados in the Palm Sunday tornado outbreak passed through Pittsfield, killing seven people and destroying every building in the town.
[edit] References
A Standard History of Lorain County, Ohio, by G. Frederick Wright. The Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago and New York, 1916.
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