Description: Typed on reverse: "Sugar Beside the Road (Chardon, Geauga County, in the background). District 4, Cleveland, Ohio. Photographer E.P. Moody. March 1941." Maple syrup season begins in January, ending around April in Ohio and while trees are tapped all over the state, Geauga County has some of the state's best, and hosts the state's Maple Syrup Festival every spring. There was a time in Geauga County's history when nearly 80% of the landowners had their own sugarbush. A sugarbush is a group of maples trees, together with a sugar house. Traditionally, maple syrup was harvested by tapping a maple tree through the bark and into the wood, then letting the sap run into a bucket, which required daily collecting; less labor-intensive methods such as the use of continuous plastic pipelines have since superseded this, in all but cottage-scale production. It takes approximately 10 gallons of sap to be boiled down to 1 quart of syrup. A mature sugar maple produces about 40 liters of sap during the 4 to 6 week sugaring season under gravity, but can produce 20 or more gallons under vacuum. Trees are not tapped until they have a diameter of 10 inches at chest-height and the tree is at least 40 years old. If the tree is more than 18 inches it can be tapped twice on opposite sides. Once the sap is collected, it is taken to the sugar house and put into an evaporator to boil the sap to syrup. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B08F17_004_1
Subjects: Maple syrup; Food production; Natural resources--Ohio
Places: Chardon (Ohio); Geauga County (Ohio)
 

Description: Male and female factory workers assemble plastic products in an unknown factory in Ohio as part of the Works Progress Administration project. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B07F12_004_1
Subjects: Assembly lines; Factories--United States; Industries--Ohio--History--Pictorial works; United States. Work Projects Administration (Ohio)
Places: (Ohio)
 

Description: West view of ore bridge and trestle at Haselton Furnace #5 at Republic Steel's Youngstown, Ohio mill. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AC2_YHCIL_MSS0012_B04F22_003
Subjects: Republic Steel Corporation; Steel Industry; Blast furnaces--Equipment and supplies; Blast furnaces--Design and construction; Steel industry and trade--Youngstown (Ohio); Blast furnaces--United States; Ore Bridge
Places: Youngstown (Ohio); Mahoning County (Ohio)
 

Description: The 35 star flag was flown from 1863 to 1865. In 1861 Kansas became the 34th state and the 35th state was formed when West Virginia separated from Virginia. The US Flag has 35 Stars with the 13 red and white strips. It is rectangular in shape and measures 125 by 275 cm. It is made of wool. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H65548_001
Subjects: National Flag--United States; Civil War 1861-1865; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
 

Description: Part of a newspaper article in which Charles Young talks about having pride in his race and compares the United States to African tribes. Charles Young was the first African American to reach the rank of Colonel in the U.S. Army and, at the time of his death in 1922, was the highest-ranking African American officer in the Army. He is known for having been forced into retirement due to health concerns before the start of World War I and later riding from Wilberforce, Ohio, to Washington, D.C. to prove his physical fitness for duty. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_MSS2_B06F21_E
Subjects: African American soldiers; African American men; Military officers; Newspapers; Young, Charles, 1864-1922.
 

Description: The 8th Ohio Infantry Regiment, U.S. Volunteers in New York boarding the St. Paul prior to their departure for Santiago, Cuba, during the Spanish American War. The 8th Ohio Infantry Regiment was an Ohio National Guard regiment organized in July 1876 and mustered into federal service in May 1898 at Camp Bushnell in Columbus. Men in the regiment were from northern Ohio, predominantly Ashland, Holmes, Medina, Richland, Wayne, and Stark counties. The 8th Ohio was nicknamed "McKinley's Own" or "The President's Own" because three companies were from President William McKinley's hometown of Canton. The 8th Ohio assembled in Akron, Ohio, on April 26th, 1898, just three days after the call for troops. On July 4th, 1898, following several months of training at Camp Bushnell and Camp Alger, the 8th Ohio received orders to move to New York, where they would set sail for Cuba. The regiment disembarked at Siboney, Cuba on July 11. Although the unit never participated in combat, it was plagued by disease. The soldiers that did not perish from illness left Cuba on August 17 aboard the S.S. Mohawk. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03708
Subjects: Ohio. National Guard.; Ohio History--Military Ohio; 8th Ohio Volunteer Infantry (O.V.I.); Spanish American War
Places: New York (New York)
 

Description: Photograph showing the Old Stone Fort Dining Room restaurant, believed to be near Glenford Fort in Perry County, Ohio. Glenford Fort is located on a high bluff-like hill just south of the village of Glenford in Perry County, Ohio. The “fort’ is outlined by a mile long wall that follows the edge of the hilltop, enclosing about 40 acres. Located within the fort was a large stone mound that measured about 100 feet in diameter and 12-15 feet high. Unlike the earthen walls comprising other hilltop enclosures in Ohio, portions of the walls at Glenford Fort are made up almost entirely of stone cobbles gathered from exposed bedrock strata occurring at that elevation. At other locations the perimeter of the fort is defined by massive sections of bedrock split into long vertical gaps parallel with the bluff edge. These were further widened by glacial action, seeming to form natural passageways within the bedrock. Glenford Fort survives much as it looked to early surveyors thanks to the longtime ownership of a local family. The interior stone mound did not fare as well. In the 1980s it was excavated using less-than-professional standards, although work there did produce artifacts diagnostic of the Adena culture. This was backed by a radiocarbon date of 2220 +/- 50 bp or 270 B.C. As with other hilltop enclosures in Ohio, it more likely served as a ceremonial precinct than a defensive position. Glenford Fort is now owned and managed by the Perry County Soil & Water Conservation District with the support of the Arc of Appalachia and the Heartland Earthwork Conservancy View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B15F04_004_002
Subjects: Restaurants--Ohio--History; Glenford Fort (Ohio); Adena culture--Ohio; Earthworks (Archaeology)
Places: Perry County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph depicts workers from a coke plant. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AC2_YHCIL_MSS0140_B04F69_007
Subjects: Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company; Steel industry; Coke plants; Steel workers
 

Description: This photograph of an exterior view of Ellis Hall at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio, was taken in 1931. The building, constructed between 1903 and 1910, is used for classrooms and faculty offices. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05134
Subjects: Ohio University--History; College campuses; Universities and colleges--Pictorial works
Places: Athens (Ohio); Athens County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph is of the remnants of the regimental colors of the 5th Ohio Volunteer Cavalry. The regiment was formed in Cincinnati, Ohio in August of 1961 at Camp Dick Corwin. This flag has not been cataloged. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL01858
Subjects: Flags--Ohio; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: A photograph shows a factory at night. In the foreground there is a cart and a handcar. Several low domed buildings are visible, and behind them rises seven smokestacks. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B14F12_009_001
Subjects: Factories; Industrial chimneys
Places: Ohio
 

Description: This curved sickle is made of iron with a maple handle. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: H8624
Subjects: Society of Separatists of Zoar--History; Tools and equipment
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)