Description: Photograph of a car driving on a road near Ash Cave in Hocking County, Ohio, ca. 1940. Ash Cave is in Hocking Hills State Park in Hocking County, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL02672
Subjects: Hocking County (Ohio); Ohio History--Natural and Native Ohio
Places: Hocking County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of hikers in Conkles Hollow, Hocking County, Ohio, June 1939. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL02685
Subjects: Hocking County (Ohio); Ohio History--Natural and Native Ohio; Hocking Hills State Park (Ohio)
Places: Hocking County (Ohio)
 

Description: Main Street in Logan, Ohio, ca. 1886-1888. There are two horse-drawn wagons on either side of the street. This photograph is part of a collection compiled by Henry Howe while researching the 1889 edition of "Historical Collections of Ohio." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00248
Subjects: Hocking County (Ohio); Ohio Economy--Transportation and Development
Places: Logan (Ohio); Hocking County (Ohio)
 

Description: Isaac L. Edwards of Hocking County, Legally Executed at 12:23 A.M.,September 17, 1895, for the Murder of Mrs. Sarah sellers at Murray City, Ohio, Hocking County, Logan, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL08048
Subjects: Ohio History--State and Local Government--Law; Prisons--Ohio; Death row; Capital punishment--Ohio; Portrait photography; Hocking County (Ohio)
Places: Logan (Ohio); Hocking County (Ohio)
 

Description: This is a photograph of a map of Hocking County, Ohio drawn in 1936. It shows main routes, improved county roads, roads improved by W. P. A. and Hocking Park area. The drawing was for possible use in the Ohio Guide book. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B15F02_068
Subjects: Books; Chapter headings; Works Progress Administration; Ohio Federal Writers' Project; Maps; Hocking County (Ohio)
Places: Hocking County (Ohio)
 

Description: A young boy and girl sitting on a log in Conkle's Hollow in Hocking County, Ohio. Conkle's Hollow is located in what is today Hocking Hills State Park. The hollow was created by water carving out the sandstone over the course of years. The area gets its name from one of the men who found it in the late 18th century, W.J. Conkle who carved his name into the cliff face. It is rumored that there is a spot in the cliff face where Native Americans hid money stolen from settlers. Though they supposedly left a mark to show where the money was hidden, the mark is no longer visible and the money has never been found. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06683
Subjects: Hocking County (Ohio); Hocking Hills State Park (Ohio); Natural monuments; Ohio History--Natural and Native Ohio
Places: Hocking County (Ohio); Hocking Hills (Ohio); Logan (Ohio)
 

Description: Rock House, Hocking Hills State Park and Forest, Hocking County, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00301
Subjects: Hocking County (Ohio); Ohio History--Natural and Native Ohio
Places: Hocking Hills (Ohio); Hocking County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph showing Rock House State Park, located in Hocking Hills State Park in Hocking County, Ohio. Hocking Hills State Park is known for its geologic features of Blackhand sandstone, including Old Man's Cave, Cedar Falls, and Rock House. The only true cave in the Hocking Hills region, Rock House is a corridor-like tunnel situated in a 150-foot Blackhand sandstone cliff. Rock House has been used by many different groups over the course of its history. Small recesses, called hominy holes, are believed to have been used by American Indians as baking ovens. According to local folklore, Rock House was also used as a hideout by robbers, murderers, and bootleggers, earning it the nickname Robbers' Roost. A sixteen-room hotel, built in 1835 by Colonel F.F. Rempel of Logan, once stood where the picnic shelter is today. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B07F04_004_1
Subjects: Hocking Hills State Park (Ohio); State parks and reserves; Geology; Natural features; Outdoor recreation
Places: Hocking Hills State Park (Ohio); South Logan (Ohio); Hocking County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph shows a view of residences in Logan, Ohio, during a severe flood in March 1907. More than 4 inches of rain had fallen across the southern third of Ohio during March 12-14, 1907, with the heaviest rain, 5 to 6 inches, in a band from Cincinnati eastward to Athens and Noble County. All rivers flowing southward into the Ohio River reached flood stage during March 14-17, 1907. The Hocking River swept over its banks, causing death and destruction on its way to the Ohio. Logan, Ohio, was one of the communities in its path. The houses in this photograph resemble little islands surrounded by water. The March 14 issue of the Logan Hocking County "Democrat-Sentinel" reported: "The water on the paved street of Gallagher avenue would swim a horse.... Men worked in the water to their arm-pits, rescuing the people from their homes." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05942
Subjects: Floods--Ohio; Natural disasters; Logan (Ohio); Hocking County (Ohio)
Places: Logan (Ohio); Hocking County (Ohio)
 

Description: A log cabin nestled in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains in either Ross or Hocking County, Ohio. Pictured in the photograph is a child standing in the doorway of the cabin. Also pictured in the photograph are some buckets, a shovel, and a wire fence behind the cabin. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B06F04_015_1
Subjects: Appalachian Region--History; Log structures; Rural life
Places: Ross County (Ohio); Hocking County (Ohio)
 

Description: This 1967 photograph shows the remnants of Lock #19 of the Hocking Canal, located north of Nelsonville, Ohio, near U.S. Route 33. The Hocking Canal, built between 1829 and 1843, was a 56-mile-long canal that linked to the Ohio and Erie Canal at Carroll, Ohio. Stretching from Carroll to Athens, the Hocking Canal stimulated the growth of Lancaster, Logan, and Nelsonville, and opened the Hocking Valley to trade. Its major exports were salt, coal, and iron. Imports included goods from the East, such as cloth, shoes, and dishes. The advent of railroads in the 1850s meant the beginning of the end for canals. The Hocking Canal was abandoned in 1894. The nineteenth lock on the Hocking Canal was known as the "Sheep Pen Lock. Built as a guard lock, it was intended to permit slackwater navigation of the Hocking River by regulating water depths where river and canal met. Those plans were later abandoned, and the mechanism was converted to a lift lock, which raised and lowered boats as required by changes in the canal's elevation. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06112
Subjects: Hocking Canal (Ohio); Canals--Ohio--History--19th century; Transportation--Ohio--History; Nelsonville (Ohio); Hocking County (Ohio); Ohio Economy--Transportation and Development
Places: Nelsonville (Ohio); Hocking County (Ohio)
 

Description: Old Man's Cave, Hocking County, Ohio, ca. 1940-1949. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00357
Subjects: Hocking County (Ohio); Ohio History--Natural and Native Ohio; State parks & reserves
Places: Hocking County (Ohio)