Description: The caption reads: "Dahlia farm, near Delaware." The photograph shows a man and a woman caring for a field of dahlias. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B13F08_009_001
Subjects: Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project; Delaware (Ohio)
Places: Delaware (Ohio); Delaware County (Ohio)
 

Description: An exterior view of the Sunbury Town Hall. The building has stood since 1868. In it's long years of standing the building's functions have been greatly varied, from housing criminals to becoming a financial institution. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06781
Subjects: Historic buildings--Ohio; Historic sites Ohio; Delaware County (Ohio)
Places: Sunbury (Ohio); Delaware County (Ohio)
 

Description: An exterior view of the Sunbury Town Hall. The building has stood since 1868. In it's long years of standing the building's functions have been greatly varied, from housing criminals to becoming a financial institution. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06782
Subjects: Historic buildings--Ohio; Historic sites Ohio; Delaware County (Ohio)
Places: Sunbury (Ohio); Delaware County (Ohio)
 

Description: Illustration showing the massacre of American Indians led by Colonel David Williamson of the Pennsylvania militia. In 1772, Moravian missionaries founded a mission for American Indians in the Ohio Country at Schoenbrunn ("Beautiful Spring" in German). Because of its success, Rev. David Zeisberger founded a second village in the same year at Gnadenhutten ("Tents of Grace" in German). Life at Gnadenhutten was similar to life at Schoenbrunn. On March 8 and 9, 1782, a group of Pennsylvania militiamen under the command of Williamson attacked the mission and the American Indians on site in retaliation for the deaths and kidnappings of several white Pennsylvanians, although this particular group of so-called "Christian Delaware" had recently returned from their new outpost at Upper Sandusky to forage for crops, and had no connection to the Pennsylvania attack. In all, Williamson's men murdered 28 men, 29 women, and 39 children, and the village was burned. There were only two survivors, who informed Moravian missionaries and other American Indians as to what had occurred. This illustration comes from William Dean Howells' "Stories of Ohio" (1897). View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07916
Subjects: Gnadenhutten Massacre; Moravian Church -- Missions -- Ohio; American Indians in Ohio; Delaware Indians -- History
Places: Gnadenhutten (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: This image shows a memorial to Gnadenhutten, a Moravian church. The memorial reads "Here triumphed in death ninety Christian Indians March 8, 1782". Gnadenhutten is the oldest settlement in Ohio, a settlement of German American and Lenape American Indians. The Moravian Church founded the village as a mission to the American Indians. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06565
Subjects: Gnadenhutten Massacre; American Indians; Moravian Church--Missions--Ohio; Delaware Indians--History--18th century
Places: Gnadenhutten (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: Josua, a Mohican convert and missionary leader, led Mohican and Munsee Christians downriver and settled Gnadenhutten (Tents of Grace) on October 9, 1772. This image depicts his grave. The tombstone reads "Joshua A Mohican Indian the Moravian Elder died August 1, 1775 Oldest memorial in Ohio". The remnants of the original gravestone are encased in acrylic within a new marker. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06566
Subjects: Gnadenhutten Massacre; American Indians; Moravian Church--Missions--Ohio; Delaware Indians--History--18th century
Places: Gnadenhutten (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: Thomas Garrett (1789-1871) kept a station on the Underground Railroad in the home pictured here, in Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware. This photograph was taken in 1919. The image was collected by Ohio State University professor Wilbur H. Siebert (1866-1961). Siebert began researching the Underground Railroad in the 1890s as a way to interest his students in history. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03229
Subjects: Underground Railroad--Delaware; Ohio History--Slavery, Anti-Slavery and Civil Rights
Places: Wilmington (Delaware); New Castle County (Delaware)
 

Description: Administrative building at the Girls' Industrial School, Delaware, Ohio, erected in 1873. The purpose of the school was "the reformation of exposed, helpless, evil disposed, and vicious girls." In 1878, the term "incorrigible" was added. A five-member board of trustees purchased a piece of property known as the Ohio White Sulphur Springs Resort, eighteen miles north of Columbus. The first six girls were admitted to the school in October 1869. The inmates spent their mornings performing domestic chores. They also learned various vocational trades, including basket-making, music, sewing, and stenography. In the afternoons, the girls attended school, where they studied, reading, writing, spelling, arithmetic, geography, literature, and United States history among other topics. The girls remained at the school until they reached seventeen years of age or completed their sentence. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00192
Subjects: Multicultural Ohio--Ohio Women; Delaware (Ohio); Women--Education - Ohio; Ohio History--State and Local Government--Corrections
Places: Delaware (Ohio); Delaware County (Ohio)
 

Description: Ohio Wesleyan University, founded in 1842, is located in Delaware, Delaware County, Ohio. The photograph was taken ca.1940-1949. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00337
Subjects: Delaware County (Ohio); Ohio Wesleyan University; Cultural Ohio--Education; Universities and colleges; Education, Higher
Places: Delaware (Ohio); Delaware County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph shows members of the 127th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, the first African American regiment recruited in Ohio during the Civil War. The regiment was formed in 1863, and was subsequently designated as the 5th Regiment, United States Colored Troops. The photograph was taken in Delaware, Ohio, on Sandusky Street near the Ft. Delaware Hotel. In May 1863, Massachusetts became the first state to organize a regiment of African Americans. Because Ohio did not then allow black men to join its regiments, many Ohioans enlisted in the 54th and 55th Massachusetts Regiments. In the summer of 1863, Ohio Governor David Tod authorized the recruitment of African Americans, and the 127th was formed in Delaware, Ohio, between August and November 1863 as an African American regiment organized under white officers. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03355
Subjects: African American soldiers; Delaware County (Ohio); Civil War; 127th Ohio Volunteer Infantry (O.V.I.); 5th Regiment United States Colored Troops
Places: Delaware (Ohio); Delaware County (Ohio);
 

Description: Large group of girls canning in the kitchen at the Girls' Industrial School, ca. 1920-1929. The purpose of the school was "the reformation of exposed, helpless, evil disposed, and vicious girls." In 1878, the term "incorrigible" was added. A five-member board of trustees purchased a piece of property known as the Ohio White Sulphur Springs Resort, eighteen miles north of Columbus. The first six girls were admitted to the school in October 1869. The inmates spent their mornings performing domestic chores. They also learned various vocational trades, including basket-making, music, sewing, and stenography. In the afternoons, the girls attended school, where they studied, reading, writing, spelling, arithmetic, geography, literature, and United States history among other topics. The girls remained at the school until they reached seventeen years of age or completed their sentence. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00169
Subjects: Multicultural Ohio--Ohio Women; Delaware (Ohio); Women--Education - Ohio; Ohio History--State and Local Government--Corrections; Canning and preserving
Places: Delaware (Ohio); Delaware County (Ohio)
 

Description: Taken ca. 1910-1919, this photograph shows an African American girls orchestra on the steps of the Girls' Industrial School, Ohio's correctional facility for minor women from 1869-2014, located ten miles south of Delaware, Ohio. The purpose of the school was "the reformation of exposed, helpless, evil disposed, and vicious girls." In 1878, the term "incorrigible" was added. A five-member board of trustees purchased a piece of property known as the Ohio White Sulphur Springs Resort, eighteen miles north of Columbus. The first six girls were admitted to the school in October 1869. The inmates spent their mornings performing domestic chores. They also learned various vocational trades, including basket-making, music, sewing, and stenography. In the afternoons, the girls attended school, where they studied, reading, writing, spelling, arithmetic, geography, literature, and United States history among other topics. The girls remained at the school until they reached seventeen years of age or completed their sentence. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00207
Subjects: Delaware (Ohio); Women--Education - Ohio; Multicultural Ohio--African American Ohioans; Musical instruments; Ohio History--State and Local Government--Corrections
Places: Delaware (Ohio); Delaware County (Ohio)