Description: This image shows the square in Mount Vernon. Mary Ann Ball or Mother Bickerdyke was born near here in 1817. The town originally came to be back in the early years of the 19th century, and took its name from the estate of George Washington. Throughout the years Mount Vernon has become the main population center of the county where it resides, and has experienced consistent growth in population since it's founding. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06751
Subjects: Washington, George, 1732-1799; Knox County (Ohio); Glass industry; Gas industry--Ohio
Places: Mount Vernon (Ohio); Knox County (Ohio); Ohio
 

Description: C.J. McLin interviewing at a Marathon gas station. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_MSS2013_B03F07_C
Subjects: African Americans; McLin, C. J. (Clarence Josef.) Jr., 1921-1988; Ohio House of Representatives; State Representative; Legislator; People; Gas industry -- Ohio; Gas stations; Marathon Petroleum Corporation; Reporters and reporting
Places: Ohio
 

Description: Four 8" by 10" (2.032 by 25.4 cm) photographs document the October 1944 explosion and fire that devastated a Cleveland neighborhood. In 1941 the East Ohio Gas Company built a plant in Cleveland for performing the process of liquefaction and regasification. Three tanks were built to hold 60-million cubic feet of gas each. A fourth tank was added in 1943 that held 120 million cubic feet. When gas escaped from the fourth tank it ignited into a ball of flame that swept a mile-wide area and claimed 129 lives. In the aftermath of the explosion and fire, the company paid $7,000,000 in compensation to injured workers or families of workers killed in the disaster. It also created a scholarship fund for children of employees who perished. The East Ohio Gas Company was incorporated in 1898 as a marketing company for the National Transit Company, the natural gas arm of John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil Company of New Jersey. The company launched its business by selling to consumers in no View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: Om1634_2749839_005
Subjects: Business and Labor; Geography and Natural Resources; Gas industry; Explosions; Disasters
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: A street lighted by natural gas in Findlay, Ohio, ca. 1840-1849. Findlay is the county seat of Hancock County. During the War of 1812, Colonel James Findlay built a road to transport troops across the region and constructed a stockade that was named Fort Findlay in his honor. The community of Findlay began to emerge in the area surrounding the fort after the war was over. Future Ohio Governor Joseph Vance and Elnathan Corry laid out the first lots in 1821. The town's population remained small in the first several decades. By the 1840s, there were approximately one hundred families residing in Findlay. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04117
Subjects: Findlay (Ohio); Ohio History--Natural and Native Ohio; City and town life; Gas industry--Ohio
Places: Findlay (Ohio); Hancock County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph depicts the second gas station to be opened in Columbus, Ohio. Gas was pumped inside a drive-through structure. Two workers can be seen in the picture. Above the door, signage reads "Standard Red Crown Gasoline. Polarine Motor Lubricants." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL01720
Subjects: Automobiles; Cultural Ohio--Popular Culture; Gas industry--Ohio
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Employee of the East Ohio Gas Company, now Dominion East Ohio, reading the gas meter at a private home, 1961. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00686
Subjects: Gas industry--Ohio; Ohio Economy--Economy--Business
Places: Akron (Ohio); Summit County (Ohio)
 

Description: 100th Anniversary logo of the East Ohio Gas Company with the slogan, A Century of Service. The East Ohio Gas Company was incorporated on September 8, 1898 and celebrated their centennial in 1998. In 2000 the company was purchased by Dominion Resources and is now known as Dominion East Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00687
Subjects: Gas industry--Ohio; Ohio Economy--Economy--Business
 

Description: Employees of the East Ohio Gas Company, now Dominion East Ohio, installing Transmission Pipeline #12, 1955. This 112 mile pipeline carried natural gas from Maumee, Ohio to the Cleveland area. This photograph appeared in the September/October 1955 edition of the East Ohio News, a magazine for employees. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00690
Subjects: Gas industry--Ohio; Ohio Economy--Economy--Business
 

Description: Employees of the East Ohio Gas Company, now Dominion East Ohio, laying transmission pipeline that carried natural gas from the source to processing, storage and distribution facilities, ca. 1940 - 1960. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00681
Subjects: Gas industry--Ohio; Ohio Economy--Economy--Business
 

Description: Home appliances powered by natural gas, including a water heater, furnace, washing machine and clothes dryer, 1955. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00683
Subjects: Gas industry--Ohio; Ohio Economy--Economy--Business
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph depicts washers at a blast furnace. Washers were used to clean the flue gas of the furnace after it exited, in order to remove particulate matter and other harmful pollutants. Blast furnaces are used to smelt iron ore with coke to produce pig iron. This is the first step of steel production that occurs at mills. Air is forced into the bottom of the furnace, supporting the combustion, and giving the furnace its "blast" name. This photograph belongs to the Youngstown Sheet and Tube Audiovisual Archives, so its subject is likely located at a Youngstown company plant. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AC2_YHCIL_MSS0140_B02F21_013
Subjects: Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company; Steel industry; Blast furnaces; Gas washer; Downcomers
 

Description: This photograph depicts a blast furnace skip hoist to the right and a blast furnace gas main to the left. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AC2_YHCIL_MSS0140_B02F28_004
Subjects: Youngstown Sheet and Tube Company; Steel industry; Blast furnaces--Equipment and supplies; Blast furnace gas