History · Florence

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Florence Township is one of the nine townships of Erie County, Ohio, United States. It is part of the Sandusky, Ohio metropolitan statistical area. As of the 2020 census, the population was 2,470.

Its population held steady between the last two censuses: 2,448 people in 2010, 2,470 in 2020. Half of its homes were built before 1980.

Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Florence yet — the old photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.

Intro from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Population and housing: U.S. Census Bureau.

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