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: 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: A roadside market selling Dahlias and vegetables in Delaware County, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B06F04_006_1
Subjects: Agriculture--Ohio--History--20th century.; Harvesting; Vegetables; Flowers
Places: Delaware County (Ohio)
 

Description: A photograph of Duroc hogs in red clover on a farm in Delaware County, Ohio. The Duroc hog is an older American breed of Hogs. They are red, large framed, medium length and muscular with partially drooping ears and tend to be one of the most aggressive breed of swine. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B06F06_022_1
Subjects: Agriculture--Ohio--History--20th century.; Hogs
Places: Delaware County (Ohio)
 

Description: Duroc hogs feeding in red clover on a farm in Delaware County, Ohio View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B06F02_006_1
Subjects: Agriculture--Ohio--History--20th century.; Hogs; Livestock; Farms
Places: Delaware County (Ohio)
 

Description: Perkins Observatory, affiliated with Ohio Wesleyan University was completed in 1931, is located in Delaware, Delaware County, Ohio. The photograph was taken ca. 1940-1949. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00336
Subjects: Delaware County (Ohio); Ohio Economy--Science and Technology
Places: Delaware County (Ohio)
 

Description: On August 15, 1977, the "Big Ear" radio telescope at the Ohio State University Radio Observatory located in Delaware County detected a highly unusual signal whose source has never been identified, raising the possibility that the signal may be the first record of contact with extraterrestrial intelligence. The so-called "Wow!" signal received its name from the note Dr. Jerry Ehman wrote in the margin of this computer printout. This strange signal, unique in radio astronomy history, has never been recorded again. NAAPO, the North American Astrophysical Observatory, was chartered in 1983 as a non-profit organization originally formed to save, maintain and operate the Ohio State University Radio Observatory's (OSURO) 110-meter "Big Ear" radio telescope, Ohio's only world class radio telescope. A consortium of local colleges and a group of volunteers worked together under the NAAPO charter. Ohio Wesleyan University owned the land on which the "Big Ear" stood and sold it to land developers in 1982. OSU constructed the "Big Ear" beginning in 1956 on OWU land. They operated the radio telescope research for nearly 40 years. The developers leased the land to NAAPO from 1983 through 1997 so they could continue to operate the telescope. In 1998 the "Big Ear" radio telescope was destroyed by the developers and some of the equipment and most of the records were moved to the West Campus of the Ohio State University, in Columbus, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07146
Subjects: Astronomical observatories; Life on other planets; Science and Technology; Ohio State University--History; Telescopes
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (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: Lithograph of Rutherford B. Hayes (1822-1893), Republican candidate for president in the 1876 election. Hayes was a successful governor of Ohio and went on to defeat Democrat Samuel Tilden of New York in a highly-contested election. Despite losing the popular vote, Hayes won the Electoral College and was granted the presidency by the Congress after agreements were made to end Reconstruction in the South, a deal that would be known as the Compromise of 1877. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: OVS3328
Subjects: Ohio History--Presidents and Politics; Candidates for president; Hayes, Rutherford Birchard, 1822-1893; Presidential campaigns; Ohio--Politics and government; Governors--Ohio
Places: Fremont (Ohio); Sandusky County (Ohio); Delaware (Ohio); Delaware County (Ohio)
 

Description: Woodcut portrait of William Cratty (1805-1897), a noted Underground Railroad conductor from Delaware County, Ohio. This illustration accompanied an article in the Chicago Evening Post dated July 18. 1893, and collected by Wilbur H. Siebert as part of his Underground Railroad research. According to the article, Cratty claims to have aided 3,000 fugitive slaves in their flight to Canada between the 1830s and 1850s. During this period, a reward was offered for his capture by slave owners and slave hunters from the South. He was an avowed opponent of the Fugitive Slave Act, passed in 1850, and worked closely with his wife, Candis Bennett, members of his community and local Quaker contacts to provide save passage for those seeking their freedom. In the 1880s, he settled in Marysville, Ohio, and died in nearby Ostrander at the age of 92. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P116_B54_V0l4_Cratty
Subjects: Ohio History--Slavery, Anti-Slavery and Civil Rights; Underground Railroad--Ohio; Antislavery movements--Ohio--History--19th century; Abolitionists;
Places: Delaware (Ohio); Delaware County (Ohio)
 

Description: This image shows the front and side facades of the Delaware County Courthouse, located at 91 N. Sandusky. The building was completed in 1869 by architect Robert Jones, sits at the edge of Delaware's business district, and it is surrounded mostly by homes rather than commercial establishments. A statue of Justice sits atop the Italianate style building and ornamental iron cresting runs along the edges of its roof. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV101_B01F02_118
Subjects: Courthouses--Ohio; National Register of Historic Places; cornices; cupolas; arches; hood moldings; hip roofs; brackets (structural elements); quoins; Italianate (North American architecture styles)
Places: Delaware (Ohio); Delaware County (Ohio)