Description: An unidentified covered bridge in Ashtabula County, Ohio. One of many found in Ohio, a covered bridge is a timber-truss structure with a roof and siding; often of historic value. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07522
Subjects: Covered bridges--Ohio; Ashtabula County (Ohio); Bridges; Roads--United States--History
Places: Ashtabula County (Ohio); Ashtabula (Ohio)
 

Description: Harpersfield Bridge over the Grand River, Harpersfield, Ashtabula County, Ohio. Geneva was settled in 1805 by settlers from Charlotte, New York. The bridge is one of the few in Ohio that is still drive able. The northern portion was washed away by the flood in 1936 and was replaced by a steel structure. The bridge was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 3, 1975. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05996
Subjects: Covered bridges--Ohio; Ashtabula County (Ohio); National Register of Historic Places
Places: Geneva (Ohio); Ashtabula (Ohio)
 

Description: This is the entrance to the Harpersfield Covered Bridge near Geneva. Geneva was settled in 1805 by settlers from Charlotte, New York. The bridge is one of the few in Ohio that is still drive able. The northern portion was washed away by the flood in 1936 and was replaced by a steel structure. The bridge was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 3, 1975. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06556
Subjects: Covered bridges--Ohio; Ashtabula County (Ohio); National Register of Historic Places
Places: Geneva (Ohio); Ashtabula (Ohio)
 

Description: Pymatuning Lake in Ashtabula County. Both Ohio and Pennsylvania manage state parks on each side of the reservoir. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06885
Subjects: Ashtabula County (Ohio); Lakes--Ohio
Places: Andover (Ohio); Ashtabula County (Ohio)
 

Description: Produced for the Ohio Guide in 1937, this is a map of Ashtabula County, Ohio, highlighting points of interest, railroads, state routes, and U. S. routes. It was drawn for the Ohio Writers' Program of the Work Progress Administration for possible use in the Ohio Guide. In 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt established the Works Progress Administration by executive order to create jobs for the large numbers of unemployed laborers, as well as artists, musicians, actors, and writers. The Federal Arts Program, a sector of the Works Progress Administration, included the Federal Writers’ Project, one of the primary goals of which was to complete the America Guide series, a series of guidebooks for each state which included state history, art, architecture, music, literature, and points of interest to the major cities and tours throughout the state. Work on the Ohio Guide began in 1935 with the publication of several pamphlets and brochures. The Reorganization Act of 1939 consolidated the Works Progress Administration and other agencies into the Federal Works Administration, and the Federal Writers’ Project became the Federal Writers’ Project in Ohio. The final product was published in 1940 and went through several editions. The Ohio Guide Collection consists of 4,769 photographs collected for use in Ohio Guide and other publications of the Federal Writers’ Project in Ohio from 1935-1939. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B15F02_064
Subjects: Maps; Books; Ashtabula County (Ohio); Works Progress Administration; Ohio Federal Writers' Project
Places: Ashtabula (Ohio); Ashtabula County (Ohio)
 

Description: Portrait of Benjamin F. Wade from Jefferson, Ashtabula County, Ohio, ca. 1894-1912. He served as United States Senator from Ohio from 1859 to 1869. Wade was the Republican Party nominee for Vice President in 1868. Wade died in 1878 and this portrait was produced as a memorial to the Senator after his death. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00785
Subjects: Ashtabula County (Ohio); Ohio History--State and Local Government
Places: Jefferson (Ohio); Ashtabula County (Ohio)
 

Description: The photograph depicts the northeast corner of the town square in Jefferson, the county seat of Ashtabula County. The picture shows, from left to right, the harness shop of J.A. Hervey & Co., the S.D. Dann Store, Talcott Tin and Stove Shop, and the Jefferson House, a hotel. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: Jefferson_OH001
Subjects: Ashtabula County (Ohio) -- Photographs; Jefferson (Ohio) -- Photographs
Places: Jefferson (Ohio); Ashtabula County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of the Joshua Reed Giddings Law Office, a National Historic Landmark in Jefferson, Ohio. Giddings (1795-1864) was a prominent abolitionist as well as a member of the U.S. Congress. The office was constructed adjacent to his home, the porch of which can be seen on the left-hand side of the image. The text of the historical marker reads "Joshua Reed Giddings here wrote the Republican party's first national platform, adopted at Philadelphia, June 17th, 1856. Member of Congress 1838-1858. In 1842 he defied the Atherton Gag Rule, prohibiting discussion of slavery on the floor. Censured by the House, given no opportunity for defense, he resigned. His overwhelming re-election five weeks later, and renewed defiance, restored Constitutional freedom of speech in our American Congress. Pioneer, soldier, author, patriot and statesman, a founder of the National Republican Party." The structure is alternately identified as the Law Office of Wade & Jefferson. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00311
Subjects: Ashtabula County (Ohio); Abolitionists -- Ohio; Law offices--Ohio; United States. Congress. House; National Register of Historic Places
Places: Jefferson (Ohio); Ashtabula County (Ohio)
 

Description: Portrait of Platt Roger Spencer who created a new style of penmanship known as the semi-angular or Spencerian system.Platt Rogers Spencer was an educator and developer of a popular style of penmanship. Spencer was born on September 7, 1801, in New York. His family moved to Ashtabula County, Ohio in 1810. Spencer's mother placed a strong emphasis on education. She faced great difficulties in providing her children with schooling on the frontier. Legend has it that Spencer loved to write as a young child, but his family could either not find or could not afford paper for him until he was seven years of age. He did not enroll in school until he was twelve when a school opened in nearby Conneaut, Ohio. On one occasion, Spencer purportedly walked twenty miles barefoot to borrow a mathematics book. To help support his family, Spencer took several jobs, primarily as a clerk in local stores and businesses. In these positions, he actively practiced his penmanship. He created a new style of penmanship known as the "semi-angular" or "Spencerian" system. By the early 1860's, schools across the United States were teaching their pupils the Spencerian style. It became the preferred style for clerks working for the United States government. Spencer personally opened schools to teach his system at Geneva and Cleveland, Ohio, and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He also was a strong supporter of the temperance and abolitionist movements. After he died on May 16, 1864 his sons continued to teach their father's method in various schools across the country for a number of years. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07144
Subjects: Ashtabula County (Ohio); Education--Ohio; American frontier
Places: Ashtabula County (Ohio)
 

Description: Theodore Burton was born in Jefferson, Ohio, in 1851. He went on to have an active career in politics as a member of the Republican Party. He served as a US senator from 1909 to 1915; and in the House of Representatives from 1921 until the end of 1928. When he died in 1929, he was serving in the US Senate as the appointed replacement for Frank B. Willis. Burton was born in Jefferson, Ashtabula County, Ohio on December 20, 1851. He died on October 28, 1929 in Washington, D. C. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07063
Subjects: United States. Congress. Senate; Republican Party; Ashtabula County (Ohio)