Ashland
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"Ashland" was the name of nineteenth-century statesman Henry Clay's estate by 1809 and because of Clay's renown in the U.S. and in other parts of the world thereafter was adopted upon the establishment of many places.
Ashland may refer to:
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[edit] Places
[edit] Canada
- Ashland, New Brunswick
- Ashland Road, New Brunswick
[edit] United Kingdom
[edit] United States
- Ashland, The Henry Clay Estate, a historic site in Lexington, Kentucky, and the source of the name of several other Ashlands.
- Ashland, Alabama
- Ashland, California
- Ashland, Georgia
- Ashland, Illinois
- Ashland, Indiana
- Ashland, Kansas
- Ashland, Kentucky
- Ashland, Louisiana
- Ashland, Maine
- Ashland, Massachusetts
- Ashland, Mississippi
- Ashland, Missouri
- Ashland, Montana
- Ashland, Nebraska
- Ashland, New Hampshire
- Ashland, New Jersey
- Ashland, Chemung County, New York
- Ashland, Greene County, New York
- Ashland, Ohio
- Ashland, Oklahoma
- Ashland, Oregon
- Ashland, Pennsylvania
- Ashland, Virginia
- Ashland, Washington
- Ashland, West Virginia
- Ashland, Wisconsin
- Ashland City, Tennessee
- Ashland County, Ohio
- Ashland County, Wisconsin
- Ashland Heights, South Dakota
- Ashland Township, Morgan County, Indiana
- Ashland Township, Michigan
- Ashland Township, Minnesota
- Ashland Township, Pennsylvania
- Ashland (town), Wisconsin
[edit] Other uses
- Ashland, Inc., formerly known as Ashland Oil (named for Ashland, Kentucky)
- Marathon Ashland Petroleum, LLC (Marathon Petroleum Company), a joint venture of Ashland Oil and the Marathon Oil Corporation
- Ashland University in Ashland, Ohio
- Clay-Ashland in Liberia, named in honor of Henry Clay and his estate. Clay was president of the American Colonization Society or the ACS, the organization that endeavored to settle Liberia with free African-Americans.
- Waking Ashland, a piano rock band whose name was inspired by Ashland, Oregon