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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2A94_ashtabula-harbor-commercial-district_Ashtabula-OH.html
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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
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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/HM2A8Y_betsey-mix-cowles_Austinburg-OH.html
Betsey Mix Cowles dedicated her life to fighting slavery and improving the status of women. Her desire for a formal education led her to Oberlin College, where she completed two years of study in 1840. An advocate of immediate abolition, Cowles le…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2A8X_ransom-e-olds-birthplace_Geneva-OH.html
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Ransom E. Olds was born on this property on June 3, 1864. Olds co-founded the Olds Motor Vehicle Company, forerunner of the Oldsmobile Division of General Motors in Lansing, Michigan, on August 21, 1897. The curved dash model, built from 1…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2A8V_harpersfield-covered-bridge_Geneva-OH.html
Replacing an earlier bridge that was carried away in a spring flood, the Harpersfield Covered Bridge was built in 1868 and spans the Grand River, a state-designated wild, and scenic river. This bridge, which currently carries County Road #154 (Har…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2A8J_western-reserve_Conneaut-OH.html
On July 4, 1796, Moses Cleaveland and his survey party landed at the mouth of Conneaut Creek on the southern shore of Lake Erie in what is today Conneaut, Ohio. The Connecticut Land Company, a private land speculation enterprise, had hired General…
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…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM218B_pymatuning-wetlands-pymatuning-reservoir_Andover-OH.html
Pymatuning Wetlands The advancing and retreating mile-high glacial sheet of ice and snow shaped the countryside around this area. As the last of the ice masses melted, a great swamp developed, punctuated by towering white pines, bogs, and wetlands…