Description: This mill was on the Venice mill-race of Erie County, Ohio. A mill-race is an artificial channel that was created to power mills. Many different types of mills were set up along the Venice mill-race. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B05F01A_023_1
Subjects: Water mills; Venice (Ohio); Erie County (Ohio)--History; Water-supply--Ohio--Erie County--Maps
Places: Venice (Ohio); Erie County (Ohio)
 

Description: This mill was on the Venice mill-race of Erie County, Ohio. A mill-race is an artificial channel that was created to power mills. Many different types of mills were set up along the Venice mill-race. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B05F01A_008_1
Subjects: Venice (Ohio); Groundwater--Ohio--Erie County--Maps; Erie County (Ohio)--History
Places: Venice (Ohio); Erie County (Ohio)
 

Description: This mill was on the Venice mill-race of Erie County, Ohio. A mill-race is an artificial channel that was created to power mills. Many different types of mills were set up along the Venice mill-race. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B05F01A_009_1
Subjects: Erie County (Ohio); Water mills--Ohio--History; Venice (Ohio)
Places: Venice (Ohio); Erie County (Ohio)
 

Description: Map of Fort Sandusky and the surrounding area published in "Old Fort Sandoski of 1745 and the 'Sandusky Country," by Lucy Elliot Keeler. Fort Sandusky was a fort built and used by British troops in the Ohio Country during Pontiac's Rebellion and the French and Indian War. The historical marker for the fort is located in present-day Erie County, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05360
Subjects: Erie County (Ohio); Ohio History--Settlement and Early Statehood; Forts & fortifications
Places: Erie County (Ohio)
 

Description: A young girl feeds a small flock of ducks in Erie County, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B05F01A_022_1
Subjects: Ponds; Erie County (Ohio); Ducks--Food--United States.
Places: Erie County (Ohio)
 

Description: Drawing of Inscription Rock, located on the south shore of Kelleys Island in Erie County, Ohio. The rock is marked with prehistoric American Indian pictographs. The flat-topped limestone slab displays carvings of animals and human figures. Discovered partly buried in the shoreline in 1833, the 32 foot by 21 foot rock is now entirely exposed. Much eroded by the elements, it is now protected by a roof and viewing platform. Archaeologists believe the inscriptions date from sometime between AD 1200 and the present. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL02962
Subjects: Erie County (Ohio); Ohio History--Natural and Native Ohio; Kelleys Island (Ohio)--History
Places: Kelleys Island (Ohio); Erie County (Ohio)
 

Description: The caption reads: "Wine Cellar, Erie County." The photograph shows a man checking wine cask number 109. It could be in a winery named Winesaw in Erie County, Ohio View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B07F07_017_1
Subjects: Wine; Wineries; Erie County (Ohio)
Places: Erie County (Ohio)
 

Description: View of Johnson's Island, while the American Civil War was happening this island was considered an ideal place to house POWs. Anyone kept there would have a hard time getting away from the place without any help because of the remote nature of the island. Despite this, Johnson's Island was in an ideal place for supply lines to reach. The prison was built without having much trouble if any getting the necessary materials for, and food was shipped in without issue. Even for the prisoners, life on Johnson's Island was not so bad, they were fed and they were treated relatively well as the prison was specifically made to house men of military rank who most often had rich relatives who were willing and able to send them extra money. This is in contrast to the atrocious conditions experienced in other facilities. The island became a part of a daring attempt to create chaos for the Union and force the Union army to divide its ranks and defend Ohio against an unexpected Confederate campaign. The audacious plot was thought up by Charles Cole and John Yates Beall. Cole managed to use his influence to win over Union officials in Sandusky and had a small number of Confederate soldiers become a part of the Union Army. The plan was for Beall to commandeer a civilian ship along with a number of Confederate soldiers. The plan was to use this civilian boat to take control of the Union ship stationed on Lake Erie. To successfully take control of the ship, Cole would eat dinner with the Union officers who would be drugged before Beall took control of the Union ship. The plot was foiled when Cole was found out as a spy, while Beall's men decided to revolt against him. In the end, Cole was arrested and put away, and Beall sentenced to death for his role in the scheme. The U.S. had no need for the island after the war, and eventually the island would be settled and used by civilians. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06733
Subjects: Civil War--Prisoners and prisons; Civil War 1861-1865; Erie, Lake; Erie County (Ohio)
Places: Sandusky (Ohio); Erie County (Ohio); Ohio
 

Description: Ferris wheel at the popular tourist spot, Cedar Point, Sandusky, Ohio, ca. 1920-1929. Cedar Point opened in 1870. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03448
Subjects: Erie County (Ohio); Cultural Ohio--Popular Culture; Amusement parks--Ohio
Places: Sandusky (Ohio); Erie County (Ohio)
 

Description: Visitors on the beach at the amusement park Cedar Point, Sandusky, Ohio, ca. 1920-1929. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03449
Subjects: Erie County (Ohio); Cultural Ohio--Popular Culture; Amusement parks--Ohio
Places: Sandusky (Ohio); Erie County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph depicts a pivoted bucket conveyor manufactured by the Jeffrey Manufacturing Company of Columbus, Ohio, in use at the Hinde and Dausch Paper Company in Sandusky, Ohio. It conveyed coal from a bunker to a coal-fired boiler room above. The Jeffrey Manufacturing Company, also known as the Jeffrey Mining Corporate Center, was established in 1876 as the Lechner Mining Machine Company in Columbus, Ohio, by Joseph Jeffrey and Francis Lechner. The company was the number one manufacturer of coal mining machinery worldwide until the mid-twentieth century. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL01310
Subjects: Erie County (Ohio); Coal mines and mining -- Ohio; Inventions; Coal-mining machinery; Manufacturing industries--Ohio; Inventors -- Ohio; Ohio Economy--Economy--Labor
Places: Sandusky (Ohio); Erie County (Ohio); Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Postcard with the caption "Night View of the Famous Blue Hole, Castalia, Ohio." The Blue Hole is a large spring fed by an underground river. The depth of the Blue Hole is unknown. It maintains a water temperature of 48 degrees year round. Caption in lower left-hand corner reads "In Ohio's Lake Erie Vacationland." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03463
Subjects: Erie County (Ohio); Ohio History--Natural and Native Ohio; Tourism
Places: Castalia (Ohio); Erie County (Ohio)