Description: The village of Gates Mills, in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, derives its name from its founder, Holsey Gates, and from the importance of mills in this agricultural community. In 1826, the year of Gates Mills' founding, a sawmill was constructed to increase the lumber supply and attract new settlers. The following year, a rake factory was established, and by 1829 a gristmill was in operation. The Chagrin River was dammed to create a millrace that regulated the flow of water to the wheels that powered the mills. Shops and houses encircled the mills, which were then the center of industry in Gates Mills. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07061
Subjects: Mills; Villages; Factories; City and town life; Rural Life
Places: Gates Mills (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: Haltnorth's Garden gates at Woodland and E. 55th Street in Cleveland, Ohio, from the collection of Louis Baus. Haltnorth's Garden was a German beer garden that also hosted light opera performances in an outdoor covered theater. The signs on either side of the gate advertise regular concerts on Thursdays and Sundays, or Fridays in case of inclement weather, while the name of the proprietor, Charles Hogg, dates this photograph to between 1879 and 1887. Baus, a native of Cleveland, Ohio, was born in 1875. He began his career as a professional photographer doing studio work before becoming a staff photographer for the Cleveland Advocate in 1911. Baus worked for the paper, which was later purchased by the Cleveland Plain Dealer, for thirty-eight years until his death in 1949. He was also an avid collector of historic photographs. The Louis Baus Collection consists of over one thousand photographs mounted in eleven albums, showing historic Cleveland, the village of Zoar and Ohio covered bridges and mills. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P223_B02_A05_486
Subjects: Cleveland (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc.; Theaters--Ohio--Cleveland--History--20th century; Beer; Cultural Ohio--Popular Culture; German Americans;
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: Haltnorth's Garden gates at Woodland and E. 55th Street in Cleveland, Ohio, from the collection of Louis Baus. Haltnorth's Garden was a German beer garden that also hosted light opera performances in an outdoor covered theater. The signs on either side of the gate advertise regular concerts on Thursdays and Sundays, or Fridays in case of inclement weather, while the name of the proprietor, Charles Hogg, dates this photograph to between 1879 and 1887. Baus, a native of Cleveland, Ohio, was born in 1875. He began his career as a professional photographer doing studio work before becoming a staff photographer for the Cleveland Advocate in 1911. Baus worked for the paper, which was later purchased by the Cleveland Plain Dealer, for thirty-eight years until his death in 1949. He was also an avid collector of historic photographs. The Louis Baus Collection consists of over one thousand photographs mounted in eleven albums, showing historic Cleveland, the village of Zoar and Ohio covered bridges and mills. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P223_B02_A05_490
Subjects: Cleveland (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc.; Theaters--Ohio--Cleveland--History--20th century; Beer; Cultural Ohio--Popular Culture; German Americans;
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: This is a reproduction of a photograph showing water coming through the gates of a lock on the Ohio and Erie Canal near Zoar, Ohio, ca. 1875-1900. Canal locks were used to move boats from one water level to the next during river travel. Starting in 1825, Zoarites were paid to dig part of the Ohio and Erie Canal which ran along the Separatists' property, earning $21,000 for the community in addition to income from selling food to neighboring laborers. Led by Joseph Bimeler (sometimes spelled Bäumeler) in 1817, a group of Lutheran separatists left the area of Germany known as Wurttemberg and eventually established the small community of Zoar in Tuscarawas County, Ohio. The community of Zoar was not originally organized as a commune, but its residents had a difficult time surviving in 1818 and early 1819. As a result, on April 19, 1819, the group formed the Society of Separatists of Zoar. Each person donated his or her property to the community as a whole, and in exchange for their work, the society would provide for them. Additional modifications to the society's organization were made in 1824 and a constitution established in 1833. In the decades following the establishment of the Zoar commune, the Separatists experienced economic prosperity. The community was almost entirely self-sufficient and sold any surpluses to the outside world. In addition to agriculture, Zoar residents also worked in a number of industries, including flour mills, textiles, a tin shop, copper, wagon maker, two iron foundries, and several stores. The society also made money by contracting to build a seven-mile stretch of the Ohio and Erie Canal. The canal crossed over Zoar's property, and the society owned several canal boats. The canal traffic also brought other people into the community, who bought Zoar residents' goods. By the second half of the nineteenth century, the community was quite prosperous. After Bimeler's death in 1853, the unity of the village declined, and by 1898 the Zoarites disbanded the society. The remaining residents divided the property, and the community continued to prosper in Zoar. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00846
Subjects: Zoar (Tuscarawas County, Ohio); Society of Separatists of Zoar; Ohio and Erie Canal (Ohio); Ohio Economy--Transportation and Development
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)