Description: Main Street in New Straitsville, Perry County, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B10F12_001_001
Subjects: Perry County (Ohio); New Straitsville (Ohio)--Photographs
Places: New Straitsville (Ohio); Perry County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph is a view of Main St and Bridge in Crooksville, Ohio. Crooksville is a village of about 1.5 square miles in Perry County. It is the home of the well know Hull Pottery. In July, Crooksville, along with neighboring Roseville, host the Crooksville-Roseville Pottery Festival View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B10F12_003_001
Subjects: Perry County (Ohio)
Places: Crooksville (Ohio) Perry County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph shows an exterior image of St. Joseph's Church and Priory, Somerset, Ohio, ca. 1935-1943. St. Joseph's Church, a log cabin erected in 1818, was the first Catholic church built in Ohio. This Gothic structure, which dates from 1843, is the third St. Joseph's Church erected on the site. The attached priority was dedicated in 1882. The church and priority are situated at the top of a gradual incline, behind an expanse of lawn and trees. Father Edward Fenwick (1768-1832), a member of the Order of Friars Preachers (commonly known as the Dominicans), traveled from Kentucky to Ohio as a missionary in 1808. A year later Jacob and Catharine Dittoe deeded 320 acres of land to Father Fenwick for the site of a church. The first church was a small log cabin dedicated on December 6, 1818, by Father Fenwick and his nephew, Father Nicholas Dominic Young. It had a dirt floor and measured only 18 feet by 22 feet. In 1821 Father Fenwick became the first Bishop of Cincinnati, a new diocese. Membership in St. Joseph's Church continued to grow, as did the number of priestly vocations. In 1828 a brick church replaced the log cabin, and a priory for resident friars was completed in 1837. A college for the education of future priests was completed in 1854. In 1843 the current Gothic structure was dedicated, four years after its construction began. In 1864 fire destroyed the priority and left only the church's brick shell. The church was rebuilt three years later, and the college was demolished to make way for the 1882 priory. St. Joseph's Church was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06172
Subjects: Church buildings--Ohio; Perry County (Ohio); Fenwick, Edward D. (Edward Dominic), 1768-1832; Dominicans; Somerset (Ohio); Cultural Ohio--Education; National Register of Historic Places
Places: Somerset (Ohio); Perry County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photographic postcard with a distant view of Junction City in Perry County, Ohio, 1911. Junction City was established in 1872 by the merger of the towns of Trio City and Damascus. George Wolf and John Edmiston owned adjoining farms that became the towns of Damascus and Trio City in Perry County, Ohio. As the towns grew closer together, problems ensued between Wolf and Edmiston. They agreed to submit their claims to arbitration and it was recommended that the two towns be disbanded in favor of one, named Junction City. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03710
Subjects: Perry County (Ohio); Ohio Economy--Transportation and Development
Places: Junction City (Ohio); Perry County (Ohio)
 

Description: Sugar Creek Coal Mine, mine # 6 shaft and coal tipple, Perry County, Ohio, ca. 1940-1949. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00394
Subjects: Perry County (Ohio); Ohio Economy--Economy--Labor
Places: Perry County (Ohio)
 

Description: The old Somerset Courthouse, in Somerset, is built in the federal style. It was one of 5 courthouses ever used in Perry County. Although it is no longer the county court house, it is used as the meeting place for the Village Council and the Mayor's Court. The building was built in 1918 when Perry County was formed from parts of Fairfield, Muskingum and Washington Counties. The inscription above the door reads: "Let Justice be Done. If the Heavens should fall." The building was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 5, 1975. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06550
Subjects: Perry County (Ohio); Courthouses--Ohio--History; National Register of Historic Places
Places: Somerset (Ohio); Perry County (Ohio)
 

Description: Back of a postcard stamped Junction City, Ohio, August 7, 1911. Addressed to Miss Emma Webber of Lancaster, the message reads "Am here today, A. N. K." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03711
Subjects: Villages; Perry County (Ohio); Postcards;
Places: Junction City (Ohio); Perry County (Ohio)
 

Description: Elizabeth Green, a refugee of the mine fire in New Straitsville, Ohio, ca. 1930. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00027
Subjects: Perry County (Ohio); Multicultural Ohio--Ohio Women
Places: New Straitsville (Ohio); Perry County (Ohio)
 

Description: Mrs. Kenneth Rush feeding chickens as the New Straitsville mine fire burns under her family's land, ca. 1930. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00028
Subjects: Perry County (Ohio); Multicultural Ohio--Ohio Women
Places: New Straitsville (Ohio); Perry County (Ohio)
 

Description: Reproduction of a photograph depicting an early view of Bessie Furnace in Perry County, Ohio, ca. 1900 - 1935. Bessie Furnace was constructed in 1877. Wilbur Stout, former chemist at the Columbus Iron and Steel Company and Ohio's state geologist, researched and collected photographs of blast furnaces in Ohio. He received this photograph from A. W. Seabright of Logan, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00817
Subjects: Perry County (Ohio); Ohio Economy--Economy--Business
Places: Perry County (Ohio)
 

Description: Reproduction of a photograph depicting the Bessie Furnace train yards in Perry County, Ohio, ca. 1900-1935. Bessie Furnace was constructed in 1877. Wilbur Stout, former chemist at the Columbus Iron and Steel Company and Ohio's state geologist, researched and collected photographs of blast furnaces in Ohio. He received this photograph from A. W. Seabright of Logan, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00818
Subjects: Perry County (Ohio); Ohio Economy--Economy--Business
Places: Perry County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph showing the Philip Sheridan Memorial in Somerset, Ohio. Sheridan (1831-1888) originally came from the state of New York, but his family soon after moved to Ohio. In 1848 he enrolled at West Point and finished by 1853. His career would take him throughout much of the U.S. and earn him promotion to captain before the start of the American Civil War. When the war came, Sheridan fought for the Union against the Confederacy. By 1862, he attained the rank of Colonel, and later that year, Brigadier General. Sheridan truly rose to prominence in 1864 as as head of the cavalry for the Army of the Potomac. He gained great notoriety for his actions at Cedar Creek, where he was credited with winning what was considered a losing battle. Sheridan continued to serve his country after the war ended, and he was promoted to the top position in the U.S. Army. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06671
Subjects: Sheridan, Philip Henry, 1831-1888; Civil War: Monuments & memorials; Perry County (Ohio); War memorials--Ohio
Places: Somerset (Ohio); Perry County (Ohio)