Description: An aerial view of Dawes Arboretum in Licking County. Dawes Arboretum is home to the gravesite of Benjamin Green and family, first settlers of in Licking County. Dawes Arboretum was founded in 1929 by Beman and Bertie Dawes. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06886
Subjects: Newark (Ohio); Licking County (Ohio); Gardens--Ohio
Places: Newark (Ohio); Licking County (Ohio)
 

Description: Built in 1924, Swasey Chapel on the Denison University Campus was the first building in the 1917 plan for Greater Denison. The chapel was named after Cleveland trustee and amateur astronomer Dr. Ambrose Swasey, founder of the Warner and Swasey Company. The chimes in the chapel tower are a memorial for Swasey’s wife. Today the chapel is used for religious services. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B02F02_010_1
Subjects: Granville (Ohio). Denison University; Licking County (Ohio);
Places: Granville (Ohio); Licking County (Ohio)
 

Description: The Beard-Green Cemetery in the Dawes Arboretum, including the Ohio Historical Marker and tombstones. The Ohio Historical Marker reads as follows: "Spring, 1800, Benjamin Green and family become the first legal settlers in Licking County, followed by the Stadden family; Col. John Stadden marries Elizabeth Green on Christmas Day. Spring, 1801, clearings cut for cabins on Hog Run; Johnny Appleseed plants his orchards. 1808, John Beard family settles. 1810, first burial. 1811-41, these families bury six Revolutionary War veterans." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06862
Subjects: Newark (Ohio); Licking County (Ohio); Gardens--Ohio
Places: Newark (Ohio); Licking County (Ohio)
 

Description: The Beard-Green Cemetery in the Dawes Arboretum, including the Ohio Historical Marker and tombstones. The Ohio Historical Society marker reads as follows: "Spring, 1800, Benjamin Green and family become the first legal settlers in Licking County, followed by the Stadden family; Col. John Stadden marries Elizabeth Green on Christmas Day. Spring, 1801, clearings cut for cabins on Hog Run; Johnny Appleseed plants his orchards. 1808, John Beard family settles. 1810, first burial. 1811-41, these families bury six Revolutionary War veterans." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06863
Subjects: Newark (Ohio); Licking County (Ohio); Gardens--Ohio
Places: Newark (Ohio); Licking County (Ohio)
 

Description: Aerial view of the Ohio State Fairgrounds, 1854. The Ohio State Fair is an annual exhibition that showcases Ohio farming and commercial products and achievements. The first fair was held in 1850, and after moving to various locations around the state for several decades, the event settled at its permanent location at the Ohio Expo Center in Columbus in 1886. From September 19 through 22, 1854, the fair was held at Newark's Great Circle Mound (now known as Moundbuilders Park). View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04155
Subjects: Ohio State Fair (Newark, Ohio); Ohio Economy--Agriculture; Fairs--Ohio; Mounds--Ohio--Licking County
Places: Newark (Ohio); Licking County (Ohio)
 

Description: The caption reads: "Class, - Industry, Indent. - Fiberglass products, Location - Newark." This photograph shows several items of fiberglass from the Owens-Corning Fiberglass Company in Newark, Ohio View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B07F10_026_1
Subjects: Industry; Fiberglass; Newark (Ohio); Licking County (Ohio)
Places: Newark (Ohio); Licking County (Ohio)
 

Description: The Alligator Mound, near Granville, is a religious effigy. Alligator Mound is an effigy mound located in Granville. The mound is 200 feet long and five to six feet high at its highest point. It is located on the top of a bluff overlooking the Raccoon Creek valley. In spite of its name, the mound likely was not intended to represent an alligator. It is in the shape of a four-footed creature with a round head and a long tail that curls at the end. It resembles an opossum or a panther much more than an alligator. It may represent the Underwater Panther, a supernatural creature thought by many American Indian tribes to reside in lakes and other bodies of water. Since Alligator Mound is located so close to the Newark Earthworks, archaeologists used to think it was built by the Hopewell culture. Recent studies, however, indicate it was built by the later Fort Ancient culture. The Alligator Mound is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It is owned by the Licking County Historical Society and located on the eastern outskirts of Granville, at the end of Bryn Du Drive. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06549
Subjects: Mounds--Ohio--Licking County; Hopewell culture--Ohio; Granville (Ohio)
Places: Granville (Ohio); Licking County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph from the Ohio Penitentiary in Columbus is of 32-year-old Harold Shackleford. His formal attire suggests that the photograph was taken during his trial or sentencing. Shackleford, convicted of beating and murdering a woman who was walking to church, was the 301st individual to be executed via the electric chair in Ohio. The caption at the bottom reads: “No. 301 Harold E. Shackleford Licking County, Ohio, Legally Electrocuted June 24, 1957, for the Murder of Mary T. Dunn” In 1885 the Ohio Penitentiary in Columbus, Ohio, became the location for all executions, which previously took place in the various county seats. In 1896 the Ohio General Assembly mandated that electrocution replace hanging as the form of capital punishment. The Ohio Penitentiary regularly offered tours as well as souvenir photographs and postcards of the building and prisoners on death row. A total of 315 prisoners, both men and women, were executed in the electric chair known as “Old Sparky” between 1897 and 1963. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL08353
Subjects: Ohio History--State and Local Government--Law; Capital punishment--Ohio--History; Death row; Electrocution; Ohio History--State and Local Government--Corrections; Ohio Penitentiary (Columbus, Ohio); Prisons--Ohio
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio); Licking County (Ohio)
 

Description: Close-up photograph of a quarry showing flint suitable for quarrying at Flint Ridge. Flint Ridge Ancient Quarries and Nature Preserve is located in Licking County, Ohio, just east of Newark. Flint Ridge flint, renowned for both its high quality and amazing array of colors, was quarried for thousands of years by American Indians to fashion their tools, weapons and ceremonial objects. The Hopewell Culture (100 B.C. - A.D. 400) in particular made extensive use Flint Ridge flint to produce their culturally diagnostic cores and bladelets and for making small bifaces or “cache blades” used for trade and/or mortuary offerings. Flint Ridge flint artifacts from all time periods are commonly found on American Indian sites throughout Ohio and much of the eastern United States. It is little wonder that Flint Ridge has been called “The Great Indian Quarry of Ohio.” Flint, particularly Flint Ridge Flint, was named as Ohio’s official gem stone in 1965 and remains popular among hobbyists as a lapidary stone and a favored material for modern flint knappers. Flint Ridge Ancient Quarries and Nature Preserve is located in Licking County, Ohio, just east of Newark. Flint Ridge flint, renowned for both its high quality and amazing array of colors, was quarried for thousands of years by American Indians to fashion their tools, weapons and ceremonial objects. The Hopewell Culture (100 B.C. - A.D. 400) in particular made extensive use Flint Ridge flint to produce their culturally diagnostic cores and bladelets and for making small bifaces or “cache blades” used for trade and/or mortuary offerings. Flint Ridge flint artifacts from all time periods are commonly found on American Indian sites throughout Ohio and much of the eastern United States. It is little wonder that Flint Ridge has been called “The Great Indian Quarry of Ohio.” Flint, particularly Flint Ridge Flint, was named as Ohio’s official gem stone in 1965 and remains popular among hobbyists as a lapidary stone and a favored material for modern flint knappers. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV17_B02F02_E1_05
Subjects: American Indian history; Ohio History--Natural and Native Ohio; Archaeological excavations; Hopewell culture; Flint Ridge (Ohio);
Places: Licking County (Ohio)
 

Description: Denison University Observatory, Granville, Licking County, Ohio, ca. 1940-1949. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00366
Subjects: Astronomical observatories; Cultural Ohio--Education
Places: Granville (Ohio); Licking County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of the doorway of the Sherwood-Davidson House in Newark, Ohio. The site is now run as the Sherwood-Davidson House Museum by the Licking County Historical Society View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B01F08_009
Subjects: Architecture; Doorways
Places: Newark (Ohio); Licking County (Ohio)
 

Description: Marker recognizing the birthplace of the tomato, Reynoldsburg, Franklin County, Ohio, ca. 1965. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00297
Subjects: Franklin County (Ohio); Ohio Economy--Agriculture
Places: Reynoldsburg (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio); Licking County (Ohio); Fairfield County (Ohio)