History · Lee

Lee’s history is
mostly unwritten

The public archives hold only 3 old photos of Lee. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.

3old images & papers
1recent photos
1940 Census Enumeration District Descriptions - Ohio - Athens County - ED 5-17, ED 5-18, ED 5-19, ED 5-20, ED 5-21, ED …, 1850 · Wikimedia Commons

The story so far

from Wikipedia & the U.S. Census

Lee Township is one of the fourteen townships of Athens County, Ohio, United States. The 2020 census found 2,837 people in the township.

Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 2,729 to 2,837 (+4%). Half of its homes were built before 1986.

Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Lee 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.

Timeline

built from the dates on the items below
18501940 Census Enumeration District Descriptions -…Commons
1940s2 items · Township maps of Athens County, Ohio,…Commons
1950–1999Nothing yet. Family albums go here.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Lee’s history is told.

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Lee, decade by decade

1950s–
1990s
Nothing in the archives for these yearsWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
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Then & now

No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as 1940 Census Enumeration District Descriptions - Ohio - Athens County - ED 5-17, ED 5-18, ED 5-19, ED 5-20, ED 5-21, ED … (1850) and it appears here side by side.

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nearby towns’ history

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