Description: This image shows the Mount Vernon Academy in Mount Vernon, Ohio. Mount Vernon Academy is a private, Christian High School owned and operated by the Seventh Day Adventist Church. It was the oldest Adventist boarding academy, opening its doors in 1893. It operating as a secondary school for the first eleven years and then began teaching college level courses. After eleven years as a college, it reverted back to an academy. At that time, the Washington Foreign Mission Seminary in Washington, D. C. became the training college for the Columbia Union. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06410
Subjects: Education--Ohio; Knox County (Ohio)
Places: Mount Vernon (Ohio); Knox County (Ohio)
 

Description: Civilian Conservation Corps built this highway, south of Jelloway in Knox County. It was funded by the Works Progress Administration in Ohio ca. 1930-1939. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00447
Subjects: Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.); Other--Federal Government
Places: Jelloway (Ohio); Knox County (Ohio)
 

Description: Main Street, Centerburg, Knox County, Ohio, ca. 1900-1909. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00473
Subjects: Streets--Ohio; Stores and shops; Automobiles; Small business--Ohio; City and town life
Places: Centerburg (Ohio); Knox County (Ohio)
 

Description: Residential street scene featuring a woman and two young girls in Mount Vernon, Ohio, 1951. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03676
Subjects: Knox County (Ohio); Ohio Economy -- Transportation and Development
Places: Mount Vernon (Ohio); Knox County (Ohio)
 

Description: This image shows the square in Mount Vernon. Mary Ann Ball or Mother Bickerdyke was born near here in 1817. The town originally came to be back in the early years of the 19th century, and took its name from the estate of George Washington. Throughout the years Mount Vernon has become the main population center of the county where it resides, and has experienced consistent growth in population since it's founding. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06751
Subjects: Washington, George, 1732-1799; Knox County (Ohio); Glass industry; Gas industry--Ohio
Places: Mount Vernon (Ohio); Knox County (Ohio); Ohio
 

Description: This image shows the front and side facades of the Knox County Courthouse. This Greek Revival courthouse emphasizes the temple form with its contrasting white trim and brick construction. Doric columns sit on either side of the entry. The building was remodeled in 1890: it was lengthened, the roof was rebuilt and a cupola was added. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B05F02_038_1
Subjects: Courthouses--Ohio; National Register of Historic Places; columns (architectural elements); clock towers; Greek Revival
Places: Mount Vernon (Ohio); Knox County (Ohio)
 

Description: This circa 1870 log cabin quilt was quilted in a barn-raising style, which consists of concentric diamonds of alternating light and dark fabrics laid over various calico quilts. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06833
Subjects: Knox County (Ohio); Cultural Ohio; Needlework; Quilts
Places: Knox County (Ohio); Ohio
 

Description: Three temperance crusaders watching the rear of a saloon in Mount Vernon, Ohio during the Women's Temperance Crusade of 1873-1874. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00067
Subjects: Knox County (Ohio); Other--Social Welfare
Places: Mount Vernon (Ohio); Knox County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of Lew and Ben Snowden playing banjo and fiddle from the second-story gable of the Snowden House in Clinton, Knox County, Ohio. This photograph was probably taken in the 1890s. Together with other family members--their sisters Sophia, Phebe, Martha, Elsie, and Annie--the brothers performed popular songs for both African American and white audiences throughout rural central Ohio between 1850 and 1900. According to local legend, Daniel D. Emmett learned the song "Dixie" from the Snowdens. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SC3964_02
Subjects: African American Ohioans; Arts and Entertainment; Musicians; Musical instruments; Musical performance;
Places: Clinton (Ohio); Knox County (Ohio)
 

Description: Group of six women on watch behind a saloon on Ward's Block in Mount Vernon, Ohio during the Women's Temperance Crusade of 1873-1874. This photograph documents the activities of women who participated in the Temperance Crusade of 1873-1874 in Mount Vernon, Ohio. The Temperance Movement was an organized effort during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to limit or outlaw the consumption and production of alcoholic beverages in the United States. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00060
Subjects: Knox County (Ohio); Other--Social Welfare; Temperance--History; Activists
Places: Mount Vernon (Ohio); Knox County (Ohio)
 

Description: Temperance crusaders watching back door of a saloon selling "Lager Beer & Pittsburg Ales" in Mount Vernon, Ohio during the Women's Temperance Crusade of 1873-1874. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00062
Subjects: Knox County (Ohio); Other--Social Welfare
Places: Mount Vernon (Ohio); Knox County (Ohio)
 

Description: Four women huddled under blankets and umbrellas outside a business that sold liquor on Ward's Block in Mount Vernon, Ohio, during the Women's Temperance Crusade of 1873-1874. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00061.tif
Subjects: Knox County (Ohio); Other--Social Welfare; Temperance--History; Multicultural Ohio--Ohio Women
Places: Mount Vernon (Ohio); Knox County (Ohio)