Description: This is a photograph of the lower locks at Lockbourne, Ohio, on the Ohio-Erie Canal. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06133
Subjects: Canals--Ohio
Places: Lockbourne (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Canal plat map showing a section of the route of the Ohio and Erie Canal in Franklin County, between stations 2309 and 2448. Properties and streets in the city of Lockbourne are pictured, and bridges, railroads, stations, locks, and other landmarks along the route are also noted. The map was created under the direction of the members of the Canal Commission of the state of Ohio and approved by the Chief Engineer of the Department of Public Works (variously referred to as the Board of Public Works and the Division of Public Works). The Ohio and Erie Canal was constructed between 1825 and 1832, eventually connecting Cleveland and Lake Erie with Portsmouth and the Ohio River. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: BV4915_010
Subjects: Ohio and Erie Canal (Ohio); Transportation; Canals -- Ohio; Bridges--Ohio
Places: Lockbourne (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Canal plat map showing a section of the route of the Ohio and Erie Canal in Franklin County, between stations 2448 and 2565. Walnut Creek, and properties and streets in the city of Lockbourne are pictured, and bridges, railroads, stations, locks, and other landmarks along the route are also noted. The map was created under the direction of the members of the Canal Commission of the state of Ohio and approved by the Chief Engineer of the Department of Public Works (variously referred to as the Board of Public Works and the Division of Public Works). The Ohio and Erie Canal was constructed between 1825 and 1832, eventually connecting Cleveland and Lake Erie with Portsmouth and the Ohio River. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: BV4915_011
Subjects: Ohio and Erie Canal (Ohio); Transportation; Canals -- Ohio; Bridges--Ohio
Places: Lockbourne (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of a private residence being moved at Lockbourne Air Base by C. W. Bryant, Jr. Company movers. The caption on the back identifies several members of the Bryant family, including Neil, C. W. and Charles (standing at front) and H. C. and Fox (to the right of the porch). Lockbourne was a military airfield in southern Franklin County, Ohio, which became an Air Force Base in 1948, and was later renamed Rickenbacker Air Force Base. Charles William Bryant Jr. was born in Dayton in 1882, and from his start as a farmhand with a 3rd grade education would go on to become a prominent African American businessman, self-taught engineer, and owner of one of Columbus’ largest construction firms. The C. W. Bryant Rigging & Moving Co. was involved in major projects throughout Columbus, including the construction of a temporary Broad Street bridge following the 1913 flood, the removal of lighting arcs from High Street, and dismantling Hanford Village in 1962 for the construction of I-71. Bryant faced racial discrimination in his personal and professional life, including the refusal of local steelworkers’ unions to admit Bryant’s black employees, which forced Bryant Co. out of steel construction in the 1950s. He nonetheless expanded into other areas, including ownership of Bryco gas stations, a coal and oil company, the Litchford and Macon hotels, and the Ohio Malt Beverage Co.-the first African American distributor in Columbus. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV76_B01_F06_005_01
Subjects: African Americans--Ohio; Bryant, Charles William, Jr. (1882-1964); Construction industry--Ohio; Columbus (Ohio)--History--20th century;
Places: Lockbourne (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Women's Army Corps members in uniform stand underneath the wing of a U.S. Army plane at Lockbourne Army Air Base, Columbus, Ohio. The public relations office of the Army Air Force School at Lockbourne provided the following photo caption: "Dress is right as these Air-Wacs [sic] of the Lockbourne Army Air Base stand at attention directly underneath a Douglas Dauntless. Reading from left to right, they are: Sgt. Louise Ruffini of Oceanport, N.J.; Cpl. Doris Todd of San Francisco, Calif.; Cpl. Winifred Wilson of Pittsburgh, Pa.; and Cpl. Barbara Moon of Yakima, Washington." The facility was originally opened in June 1942 as Lockbourne Army Airfield (named after the nearby village of Lockbourne, Ohio) as a World War II pilot training airfield. It was then named the Northeastern Training Center of the Army Air Corps and provided basic pilot training and military support. It is now Rickenbacker International Airport. The training center also provided B-17 flight training to the WASPS (Women Airforce Service Pilots) and training for glider pilots in the CG-4A Waco glider. The Douglas SBD Dauntless was a naval scout plane and dive bomber manufactured by Douglas Aircraft from 1940 through 1944. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05664
Subjects: United States. Army. Women's Army Corps; World War, 1939-1945--Women; Women--Military service--1940-1950; Ohio--History, Military; Rickenbacker International Airport; Douglas Dauntless (Dive bomber)
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Cars and trucks drive past St. Joseph Cemetery on U.S. Route 23. Located at 6440 South High Street in Lockbourne, Ohio, St. Joseph Cemetery belongs to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Columbus. Founded in 1910, the large cemetery features a beautiful brick and stone chapel erected in 1929. The High Street Photograph Collection is comprised of over 400 photographs of High Street in Columbus, Ohio, taken in the early 1970s. These photographs were taken primarily at street level and document people and the built environment from the Pontifical College Josephinum on North High Street in Worthington through Clintonville, the University District and Short North, Downtown and South Columbus. The photographs were used in a television photo documentary that aired on WOSU called "High Street." Photographers that were involved in this project were Alfred Clarke, Carol Hibbs Kight, Darrell Muething, Clayton K. Lowe, and Julius Foris, Jr. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV254_B02F043_01
Subjects: Columbus (Ohio)--History--20th century; Street photography; Cemeteries; Sepulchral monuments; Automobiles; Truck driving
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: A bus, traveling north on U.S. Route 23, drives past St. Joseph Cemetery on the right. Located at 6440 South High Street in Lockbourne, Ohio, St. Joseph Cemetery belongs to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Columbus. Founded in 1910, the large cemetery features a beautiful brick and stone chapel erected in 1929. Electric utility poles and the village of Shadeville are visible in the distance. The High Street Photograph Collection is comprised of over 400 photographs of High Street in Columbus, Ohio, taken in the early 1970s. These photographs were taken primarily at street level and document people and the built environment from the Pontifical College Josephinum on North High Street in Worthington through Clintonville, the University District and Short North, Downtown and South Columbus. The photographs were used in a television photo documentary that aired on WOSU called "High Street." Photographers that were involved in this project were Alfred Clarke, Carol Hibbs Kight, Darrell Muething, Clayton K. Lowe, and Julius Foris, Jr. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV254_B02F041_01
Subjects: Columbus (Ohio)--History--20th century; Street photography; Cemeteries; Sepulchral monuments; Buses; Electric lines--Poles and towers
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Two large semi-trailer trucks owned by Scot Lad Foods, Inc. drive past St. Joseph Cemetery on U.S. Route 23. Scot Lad Foods, a subsidiary of Roundy's Supermarkets, Inc., is based in Lansing, Illinois. St. Joseph Cemetery, located at 6440 South High Street in Lockbourne, Ohio, belongs to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Columbus. Founded in 1910, the large cemetery features a beautiful brick and stone chapel erected in 1929. An electric utility pole and a barn are also visible in the photograph. The High Street Photograph Collection is comprised of over 400 photographs of High Street in Columbus, Ohio, taken in the early 1970s. These photographs were taken primarily at street level and document people and the built environment from the Pontifical College Josephinum on North High Street in Worthington through Clintonville, the University District and Short North, Downtown and South Columbus. The photographs were used in a television photo documentary that aired on WOSU called "High Street." Photographers that were involved in this project were Alfred Clarke, Carol Hibbs Kight, Darrell Muething, Clayton K. Lowe, and Julius Foris, Jr. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV254_B02F042_01
Subjects: Columbus (Ohio)--History--20th century; Street photography; Cemeteries; Sepulchral monuments; Truck driving; Electric lines--Poles and towers
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph is a reproduction of an original, probably taken ca. 1881-1885, which shows boats on the Columbus Feeder Canal right before its terminus at the Scioto River near West Main Street, formerly Friend Street. The Columbus Feeder linked Columbus with the Ohio Erie Canal at Lockbourne.The two businesses pictured in the background are C. Harris & Co. Dealers in Coal and the Jackson-Guldan Violin Company. The Ohio History Connection's copy of this photograph is from the collection of Pearl S. Nye who was a boat captain on the Ohio and Erie Canal. According to a note on the photograph's reverse, the boat in the foreground, the Wave, was run by Adam Harman. The boat behind the Wave is the Friedley, which was owned by Captain John Hayes. Nye wrote "Wave" on the negative, faintly visible on the right side. The Ohio and Erie Canal was one of Ohio's most important canals during the mid nineteenth century. During the late 1810s, Governor Thomas Worthington and Governor Ethan Allen Brown both supported internal improvements, especially canals. Both men believed that Ohioans needed quick and easy access to the Ohio River and to Lake Erie if they were to profit financially. In 1820, Brown convinced the Ohio legislature to establish the Ohio Canal Commission. Construction began in 1825, and the canal was completed in 1833. Once completed, thirty-three of Ohio's eighty-eight counties either had portions of canals running through them or quarries to mine rock for construction. Most canals remained in operation in Ohio until the late 1800s. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07033
Subjects: Ohio Economy--Transportation and Development; Canals; Ohio and Erie Canal (Ohio); Ohio Economy--Transportation and Development
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of C. Walder Parke and fellow navigator Paul B. Goscewski. Goscewski was stationed in Matching, England with the 391st Bombardment Group. Matching is located in Essex County, and Parke was stationed in Rougham, a town in the county just south of Essex. The 391st arrived in England in January of 1944 and stayed until September. The two men would have been in England at the same time and could have met there. This photograph was taken in the U.S., since Parke had permanently returned from England in 1944. During the month of April 1945, Parke completed a course at Ellington Field in Texas, and then returned to Lockbourne Air Force Base in Columbus, Ohio. Victory in Europe Day was declared less than a month later on May 8th, 1945. Charles Walder Parke was born on July 28, 1924, and grew up in Shaker Heights, Ohio. He enlisted in the United States Army Air Forces in 1942 intending to be a pilot during WWII, but spent most of his military career as a navigator on B-17 Flying Fortresses in the 94th Bombardment Group. Parke earned two Bronze Stars, an Air Medal with several Oak Leaf Clusters, and the Distinguished Flying Cross for his successful bombing missions, including some over Berlin. He is best known for being on board a B-17 which was shot down over France by German planes on June 25, 1944, during a non-combat mission. The crew managed to make an emergency landing, and everyone inside survived. After the war, Parke founded the Cleveland-based Laurel Industries Inc., which became a prominent supplier of antimony oxide to the plastics industry. He died of Lou-Gehrig’s Disease on September 15, 1996, at the age of 72. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: MSS1510_B03F02_015
Subjects: Parke, Charles Walder, 1924-1996; Airmen; 391st Bombardment Group; United States Air Force; Military uniforms; Air pilots, Military
Places: England; Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Postcard with photograph of the Shoremede Hotel in Miami Beach, Florida. C. Walder Parke and his wife stayed here during Parke's military leave shortly after he returned from his tour of duty. One of the upper windows is circled in black marker on this photograph, indicating the room in which the couple stayed. After checking in at the redistribution center in Miami Beach, Parke was assigned to Lockbourne Air Base in Columbus, Ohio as a navigational instructor. Charles Walder Parke was born on July 28, 1924, and grew up in Shaker Heights, Ohio. He enlisted in the United States Army Air Forces in 1942 intending to be a pilot during WWII, but spent most of his military career as a navigator on B-17 Flying Fortresses in the 94th Bombardment Group. Parke earned two Bronze Stars, an Air Medal with several Oak Leaf Clusters, and the Distinguished Flying Cross for his successful bombing missions, including some over Berlin. He is best known for being on board a B-17 which was shot down over France by German planes on June 25, 1944, during a non-combat mission. The crew managed to make an emergency landing, and everyone inside survived. After the war, Parke founded the Cleveland-based Laurel Industries Inc., which became a prominent supplier of antimony oxide to the plastics industry. He died of Lou-Gehrig’s Disease on September 15, 1996, at the age of 72. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: MSS1510_B03F04_001
Subjects: Hotels; Leave of absence; Parke, Charles Walder, 1924-1996
Places: Miami Beach (Florida); Miami-Dade County (Florida)
 

Description: This map, made under the direction of the Ohio Canal Commission from W. C. Row's survey by draughtsmen A. H. Sawyer and E. E. Booton, shows the Licking Reservoir at the juncture of Licking, Perry and Fairfield Counties. It shows land ownership in the area adjacent to the reservoir and also includes a short history of the reservoir, its current statistics, and future plans. Shortly after this map was made, the reservoir would be made into a public park called Buckeye Lake. The reservoir began as a small pond that Ohio's American Indians called "Big Swamp" or "Big Pond." In the 1820s, the state began construction of the Ohio and Erie Canal, and workers built a dike that diverted water from the south fork of the Licking River into the pond, which then became known as the Licking Reservoir or Licking Summit Reservoir. As canals declined in use in the second half of the 19th century, the Ohio and Erie Canal was abandoned and began to deteriorate, but the canal's decline did not mean an end to the Licking Reservoir. Instead, the state legislature renamed it Buckeye Lake and made it a public park in 1894. By the early 20th century, the reservoir had become an attractive location for recreational activities, including through the construction of Buckeye Lake Amusement Park, and the Columbus, Buckeye Lake and Newark Interurban Electric Railway, an electric trolley system, connected the park to nearby urban areas. In 1949, the state of Ohio designated Buckeye Lake as a state park. The amusement park began to decline in popularity by the late 1950s and continued to deteriorate in the 1960s. Although the amusement park no longer exists, Buckeye Lake State Park still attracts a number of visitors to the area each year, in addition to the many people who own vacation homes near the lake or live in the area year-round. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: MAPVFM_0067_8
Subjects: Buckeye Lake (Ohio)--History; Lakes--Ohio; Reservoirs; Canals--Ohio--History--19th century; Natural resources--Ohio; State parks & reserves;
Places: Licking County (Ohio); Perry County (Ohio); Fairfield County (Ohio)