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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2A94_ashtabula-harbor-commercial-district_Ashtabula-OH.html
Side A When the Pittsburgh, Youngstown and Ashtabula Railroad was finished in 1873, Ashtabula's harbor became a direct route to ship iron ore to the booming steel mills of Youngstown and Pittsburgh. On the west side of the Ashtabula River, a brus…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2A93_the-hubbard-house_Ashtabula-OH.html
Built in the 1840s by William and Catharine Hubbard and known as "Mother Hubbard's Cupboard" or "The Great Emporium" by fugitive slaves, the Hubbard House was an important terminus on the fabled Underground Railroad in the years before the Civil W…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2A91_ashtabula-train-disaster_Ashtabula-OH.html
Near this site, an iron truss bridge collapsed into the Ashtabula River during a blizzard, plunging a passenger train with 160 on board into the gulf below. Nearly 100 people were killed in this, one of the worst train disasters in American histor…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2A8Z_hotel-ashtabula_Ashtabula-OH.html
Side A The Hotel Ashtabula was built in 1920 during an economic boom that lasted most of that decade. Architecturally, it represents a combination of Second Renaissance Revival and Georgian Revival styles. The H.L. Stevens and Company of Chicago …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2A8I_lakeshore-park-main-pavilion_Ashtabula-OH.html
At 440 feet in length, the Lakeshore Park Main Pavilion, now known as the Ashtabula Township Park Lakefront Pavilion, is thought to be the longest and oldest lakefront pavilion in continuous use on the Great Lakes. Built in 1919, the pavilion, wit…
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