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History · Lyme Township

Lyme Township’s post office opened in 1824, and 23% of its homes were built before 1940

2 places in town are on the National Register, among them a historic district with 13 buildings.

1824first post office
2on the National Register
23%homes built before 1940
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Quick answers

How Lyme Township began

When was Lyme Township founded?

1824

The Lyme Township post office opened in 1824, the earliest record of the town by name. Two smaller post offices, Lyme (1824) and Morehead (1894), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

2020 census: 873202 years
Founding year: the first Lyme Township post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Lyme Township’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of Lyme Township are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Lost villages2 post offices opened and closed inside today’s Lyme Township, and 2 old place names are still on the map.Deep rootsA post office since 1824: 202 years of Lyme Township.
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Start Lyme Township’s collection

The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Lyme Township’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
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0 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.
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Places that used to be

Lost post offices, old corners, places now gone and burying grounds

Two other post offices opened and closed inside today’s town.

Lyme
1824–1894
Morehead
1894–1901
18201920today
Hamlets and corners on the map
Hunts CornersStrongs Ridge
Gone or out of use
Bollenbacher Schoolschool
5cemeteries and burying grounds inside Lyme Township
HeymanLymeSaint PaulsStrongs RidgeTrinity Episcopal

US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

Timeline

Lyme Township, 1824 to 1901

Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.

  1. 19th century
  2. 1824Post officeThe Lyme post office opens
  3. 1894Post officeThe Lyme post office closes
  4. 1894Post officeThe Morehead post office opens
  5. 20th century
  6. 1901Post officeThe Morehead post office closes
The story so far

Lyme Township, in brief

Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Lyme Township yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.

Lyme Township is one of the nineteen townships of Huron County, Ohio, United States. As of the 2020 census the population of the township was 873.

Its first post office opened in 1824. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 853 to 873 (+2%).

Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.

By decade

Lyme Township, decade by decade

Today5 recent
Map of Huron County Ohio Highlighting2015Map of Huron County Ohio HighlightingMapHunts Corners church2013Hunts Corners churchJohn Wright Mansion2011John Wright MansionOhio Bicentennial Barn, Lyme Village, Huron County, Ohio2007Ohio Bicentennial Barn, Lyme Village, Huron County, O…Lyme Huron2006Lyme Huron
On the National Register

2 listings protect 14 historic buildings

The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.

places listed
2
National Historic Landmarks
0
none yet
historic buildings protected
14
each building in a district counts
first listed
1974
John Wright Mansion
John Wright MansionHunts Corners
BuildingsDistricts

Architectural styles listings

Second Empire1
Gothic Revival1
Gable Front1
John Wright MansionSecond Empire
Hunts CornersGothic Revival

National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.

Famous people

Famous people close to Lyme Township

Nobody well known was born in Lyme Township itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.

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Thomas EdisonAmerican inventor and businessman · b. 1847
George KennanAmerican explorer and journalist · b. 1845
James B. McPhersonCareer officer of the United States Army · b. 1828
Paul BrownAmerican football coach · b. 1908
Stephen M. YoungAmerican politician · b. 1889
Ban JohnsonPresident of the American League · b. 1863
Stories next door

History across the town line

Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.

Bellevue1 historic placeA−Ridgefield Township3 historic placesA+Sherman TownshipIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its townGroton TownshipIts storyD−

Questions about Lyme Township’s history

What year was Lyme Township founded?

The Lyme Township post office opened in 1824, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

What is on the National Register in Lyme Township?

Two places: the John Wright Mansion (listed 1974) and the Hunts Corners (1993).

Memory lane

What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.

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Sources

Where this page comes from

Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →

From Wikimedia Commons (5), the National Register of Historic Places (2), the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.