Avery is an

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in western Milan Township, Erie County,

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. It is part of the Sandusky Metropolitan Statistical Area. Avery is located along US Route 250 near that road's interchange with

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and

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, the

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. It once had a post office, but is now included in the

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postal zone (44846).

History

The current community called Avery, is all that remains of a village formerly known as Spears Corners. Avery takes its name from "Avery Township" (the original name of Milan Township) in Erie County This present community of Avery is often confused with the first

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of Huron County, in the State of

which was technically called the "town plat of Huron" (occupied from 1815 to circa-1821); this was instead almost due east of the present Avery, but on the east side of the

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. The confusion arises due to the prior early historical usage of the word 'town', at that time meaning "township", and 'town plat' meaning "village". Likewise, the current city of

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, is often misunderstood to have been the former 'town plat of Huron'. The area currently known as Avery was the name given to a railroad passenger depot built in 1882 by the New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad where it crossed the Norwalk- Sandusky Road that became

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. In 1893, it became a stop on the Sandusky, Milan and Norwalk

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electric railroad, (similar to a city's "streetcar") later becoming part of the Lake Shore Electric Railway system.''"Milan and the Milan Canal"'', by Charles E. Frohman, c.1976, pp. 16–17, 28, 57.

Notable person

* Charles A. Hawley (1861-1929), dentist

References

Unincorporated communities in Ohio Unincorporated communities in Erie County, Ohio Populated places established in 1811 {{ErieCountyOH-geo-stub