[3] The county is named for "Ashland", the home of Senator Henry Clay near Lexington, Kentucky.

[4] It was formed in 1846 from parts of Huron, Lorain, Richland and Wayne Counties.

Like the county seat, it was named after Ashland, the Lexington, Kentucky-area home of Henry Clay, a Kentucky senator.

Similarly, this meant the Whig Party was very popular in the region during that era.

Subsequent migration from 1800 to the mid-1820s came almost exclusively from the regions of rural Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Maine.

[7] As of the census[14] of 2000, there were 52,523 people, 19,524 households, and 14,018 families living in the county.

24.00% of all households were made up of individuals, and 10.30% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.

As of the 2010 United States Census, there were 53,139 people, 20,196 households, and 14,017 families living in the county.

[20] Prior to 1912, Ashland County was a Democratic Party stronghold in presidential elections voting Republicans only once since 1856.

Lyndon B. Johnson's win in 1964 is the lone time since then that a Democrat has won the county.

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