Description: This mill was on the Venice mill-race of Erie County, Ohio. A mill-race is an artificial channel that was created to power mills. Many different types of mills were set up along the Venice mill-race. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B05F01A_023_1
Subjects: Water mills; Venice (Ohio); Erie County (Ohio)--History; Water-supply--Ohio--Erie County--Maps
Places: Venice (Ohio); Erie County (Ohio)
 

Description: This mill was on the Venice mill-race of Erie County, Ohio. A mill-race is an artificial channel that was created to power mills. Many different types of mills were set up along the Venice mill-race. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B05F01A_008_1
Subjects: Venice (Ohio); Groundwater--Ohio--Erie County--Maps; Erie County (Ohio)--History
Places: Venice (Ohio); Erie County (Ohio)
 

Description: This mill was on the Venice mill-race of Erie County, Ohio. A mill-race is an artificial channel that was created to power mills. Many different types of mills were set up along the Venice mill-race. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B05F01A_009_1
Subjects: Erie County (Ohio); Water mills--Ohio--History; Venice (Ohio)
Places: Venice (Ohio); Erie County (Ohio)
 

Description: Blue Hole, Castalia, Erie County, Ohio, ca. 1940-1949. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00300
Subjects: Blue Hole (Castalia, Ohio); Ohio History--Natural and Native Ohio
Places: Castalia (Ohio); Erie County (Ohio)
 

Description: Drawing of Inscription Rock, located on the south shore of Kelleys Island in Erie County, Ohio. The rock is marked with prehistoric American Indian pictographs. The flat-topped limestone slab displays carvings of animals and human figures. Discovered partly buried in the shoreline in 1833, the 32 foot by 21 foot rock is now entirely exposed. Much eroded by the elements, it is now protected by a roof and viewing platform. Archaeologists believe the inscriptions date from sometime between AD 1200 and the present. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL02962
Subjects: Erie County (Ohio); Ohio History--Natural and Native Ohio; Kelleys Island (Ohio)--History
Places: Kelleys Island (Ohio); Erie County (Ohio)
 

Description: A young girl feeds a small flock of ducks in Erie County, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B05F01A_022_1
Subjects: Ponds; Erie County (Ohio); Ducks--Food--United States.
Places: Erie County (Ohio)
 

Description: The caption reads: "Wine Cellar, Erie County." The photograph shows a man checking wine cask number 109. It could be in a winery named Winesaw in Erie County, Ohio View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B07F07_017_1
Subjects: Wine; Wineries; Erie County (Ohio)
Places: Erie County (Ohio)
 

Description: Inscription Rock on the shoreline of Kelleys Island, Erie County, Ohio, ca. 1886-1888. This photograph is part of a collection compiled by Henry Howe while researching the 1889 edition of his book "Historical Collections of Ohio." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00504
Subjects: Historic sites--Ohio--Kelleys Island--Pictorial works; Ohio History--Natural and Native Ohio
Places: Kelleys Island (Ohio); Erie County (Ohio)
 

Description: Table Rock at Kelly's Island in Lake Erie. Erie County, Ohio. The photograph was taken ca. 1940-1949. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00338
Subjects: Kelleys Island (Ohio); Ohio History--Natural and Native Ohio
Places: Kelleys Island (Ohio); Erie County (Ohio)
 

Description: Burial Squad at Dill Cottage, Ohio Soldiers' and Sailors' Home, Sandusky, Erie County, Ohio. The photograph was taken ca. 1940-1949. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00339
Subjects: Rights and Responsibilities; Ohio History--State and Local Government--Health Care
Places: Sandusky (Ohio); Erie County (Ohio)
 

Description: The new Erie County courthouse was finished in 1874. In a unanimous decision, the county board of commissioners decided to build the new courthouse on the west block of Sandusky's public square on the site of the original courthouse which had been built approximately fifty years earlier. It was built by the arcitecture firm Miller, Frayer & Sheets of Mansfield, Ohio. The total cost of construction, including furniture and labor, was $4,361.29. The county officers occupied the building on December 4, 1874. It began as a single story building, but since 1874, additional floors and a tower were added. After this picture was taken, a clock was added to the tower. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B05F01A_004_1
Subjects: Ohio Government; Architecture--Ohio--Pictorial works.; Courthouses--Ohio--History.
Places: Sandusky (Ohio); Erie County (Ohio)
 

Description: View of Johnson's Island, while the American Civil War was happening this island was considered an ideal place to house POWs. Anyone kept there would have a hard time getting away from the place without any help because of the remote nature of the island. Despite this, Johnson's Island was in an ideal place for supply lines to reach. The prison was built without having much trouble if any getting the necessary materials for, and food was shipped in without issue. Even for the prisoners, life on Johnson's Island was not so bad, they were fed and they were treated relatively well as the prison was specifically made to house men of military rank who most often had rich relatives who were willing and able to send them extra money. This is in contrast to the atrocious conditions experienced in other facilities. The island became a part of a daring attempt to create chaos for the Union and force the Union army to divide its ranks and defend Ohio against an unexpected Confederate campaign. The audacious plot was thought up by Charles Cole and John Yates Beall. Cole managed to use his influence to win over Union officials in Sandusky and had a small number of Confederate soldiers become a part of the Union Army. The plan was for Beall to commandeer a civilian ship along with a number of Confederate soldiers. The plan was to use this civilian boat to take control of the Union ship stationed on Lake Erie. To successfully take control of the ship, Cole would eat dinner with the Union officers who would be drugged before Beall took control of the Union ship. The plot was foiled when Cole was found out as a spy, while Beall's men decided to revolt against him. In the end, Cole was arrested and put away, and Beall sentenced to death for his role in the scheme. The U.S. had no need for the island after the war, and eventually the island would be settled and used by civilians. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06733
Subjects: Civil War--Prisoners and prisons; Civil War 1861-1865; Erie, Lake; Erie County (Ohio)
Places: Sandusky (Ohio); Erie County (Ohio); Ohio