Description: Caption reads: "Main Street; Logan, O; Looking West From Mulberry." This historical photograph taken in Logan, Ohio, shows East Main looking west toward the Odd Fellows Building (IOOF). Main Street is wider than other streets on the grid. A primary north-south street, Mulberry Street historically extended to the south where it bridged canal, railroad and river. This original photograph was taken between 1893–1910 and a note indicates that it was cut from the Logan High School Aerial yearbook. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B07F04_018_1
Subjects: Architecture--Ohio; Logan (Ohio); Central business districts; Stores and shops; Downtowns
Places: Logan (Ohio); Hocking County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of a Gothic Revival structure near Logan, Ohio. Characteristics of this architectural style include steep cross gables, a steeply pitched roof, vertical board and batten siding, and ornate bargeboards. Referred to as "Carpenter Gothic" when used in wood frame houses, it was popular from roughly the 1840s to the 1860s. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B07F04_001_1
Subjects: Architecture--Ohio; Logan (Ohio); Gothic revival (Architecture); Historic houses
Places: Logan (Ohio); Hocking County (Ohio)
 

Description: This image shows the insides of the Ohio Caverns near West Liberty. In 1897, a farm boy investigating the disappearance of water into a sinkhole in a nearby field discovered this system of subterranean passageways. Digging down a few feet, he found an opening to a cave that had begun forming perhaps several thousand years earlier during the Ice Age in soluble limestone bedrock that was approximately 400 million years old. Ground water dripping down from the cavern's ceiling continues to form stalactites, stalagmites, and mineral coatings on the cavern's walls, floor, and ceiling. A portion of Ohio Caverns near the discovery site was opened to the public in 1897, but that section closed in 1925 when a more extensive and geologically interesting part of the cave was discovered. Ohio Caverns is the largest known cave system in the state and is widely considered to be the most beautiful of all Ohio caves. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06553
Subjects: Caves--Ohio; Geology--Ohio; Logan County (Ohio)
Places: West Liberty (Ohio); Logan County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph shows a view of residences in Logan, Ohio, during a severe flood in March 1907. More than 4 inches of rain had fallen across the southern third of Ohio during March 12-14, 1907, with the heaviest rain, 5 to 6 inches, in a band from Cincinnati eastward to Athens and Noble County. All rivers flowing southward into the Ohio River reached flood stage during March 14-17, 1907. The Hocking River swept over its banks, causing death and destruction on its way to the Ohio. Logan, Ohio, was one of the communities in its path. The houses in this photograph resemble little islands surrounded by water. The March 14 issue of the Logan Hocking County "Democrat-Sentinel" reported: "The water on the paved street of Gallagher avenue would swim a horse.... Men worked in the water to their arm-pits, rescuing the people from their homes." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05942
Subjects: Floods--Ohio; Natural disasters; Logan (Ohio); Hocking County (Ohio)
Places: Logan (Ohio); Hocking County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of an unidentified home in Logan, Hocking County, Ohio. Caption reads: "Gothic style, near Logan." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B01F06_048_001
Subjects: Architecture--Ohio--Pictorial works., Domestic--United States
Places: Logan (Ohio); Hocking County (Ohio)
 

Description: A tree lined Willow Road near Indian Lake in Logan County, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B12F03_028_001
Subjects: Dirt roads--Ohio--Logan County
Places: Logan County (Ohio)
 

Description: The Logan Elm in Pickaway County, Ohio, was the location of a speech on Indian and white relations given by Chief Logan of the Ohio Iroquois in 1774. Originally an ally of white settlers in the Ohio country, Logan began to oppose their settlement after a contingent of Virginia settlers killed 12 members of Logan's family and tribe. At the time the tree died in 1964, it was estimated to be between 200 to 300 years old, and was approximately 24 feet in circumference. In its place, the Ohio History Connection (then the Ohio Historical Society) and Pickaway Country placed a plaque, and, recently, planted a pin oak tree in honor of Chief Logan and the legendary elm tree. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00395
Subjects: Natural monuments; Ohio History--Settlement and Early Statehood; Seneca-Cayuga Tribe; American Indians in Ohio
Places: Pickaway County (Ohio)
 

Description: Indian Lake in Logan County, Ohio, ca. 1940-1949. Indian Lake was built between 1850 and 1857 as a feeder lake for the Miami and Erie Canal. It was known as Lewistown Reservoir until 1896, when the lake was purchased by the state of Ohio for a state park. In the 1920s, S. L. Wilgus built an amusement park on the shore of the lake near Russell's Point. Attractions included a boardwalk along the lake and a roller coaster. The park closed in the 1970s. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00369
Subjects: Indian Lake (Ohio); Ohio History--Natural and Native Ohio
Places: Indian Lake (Ohio); Logan County (Ohio)
 

Description: This color photo shows the unveiling of a historic marker on Court Street, Bellefontaine, Ohio, in 1968. An unidentified man dressed in a business suit is removing the covering from the marker. His right hand also grasps a wooden hammer or gavel. Spectators watch the activity. On the photograph's far left and right are men who are documenting the event with a still camera and what appears to be a film camera. The marker reads: "Oldest concrete street in America. America's first concrete streets were those which surrounded this court house. Concrete was first used in 1891 to provide an 8-foot strip along Main Street where horses were hitched. Two years later Court Avenue was paved with concrete made from native marl supplies by the Buckeye Cement Company, 8 miles to the northeast. The marker was erected in 1968 on the 75th anniversary of the paving of Court Street." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06964
Subjects: Historical Marker; Transportation--Ohio--History; Concrete roads; Bellefontaine (Ohio); Logan County (Ohio); Rites and ceremonies; Streets--Ohio
Places: Bellefontaine (Ohio); Logan County (Ohio)
 

Description: Mac-a-cheek Castle (alternately, Mac-o-Chee Chateau), a Flemish mansion on a bluff outside of West Liberty, was built for the Civil War veteran and newspaperman Abram Sanders Piatt in 1864, and completed in 1871 by his son, William. Returning from the war to their boyhood hometown, Piatt and his brother Donn built homes less than a mile apart. Donn's house, Mac-o-Chee Castle, a Gothic limestone chateau featuring two central towers, was designed by Abram's son William and completed in 1879. According to the Ohio Guide, Mac-a-cheek's library and drawing room, lined in cherry woodwork, contained "antique furniture, Colonial paintings, old sabres and the dueling pistol with which Aaron Burr killed Alexander Hamilton," and served as a meeting places for local literary figures. William McCoy Piatt's family operated the houses as a tourist destination from 1912 until their departure in 1984. The Castles were entered in the National Register in 1982. Reverse reads: "The Piatt Chateau, Mac-o-chee, Mack-a-cheek. Near West Liberty, O. District #10, Logan Co." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B08F15_005_1
Subjects: Logan County (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc.
Places: West Liberty (Ohio); Logan County (Ohio)
 

Description: Exterior view of Logan County District Library in Bellefontaine, Ohio. The library was built in 1905 with money donated by industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. Carnegie donated money to build 111 libraries in Ohio in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04653
Subjects: Libraries--Ohio; Cultural Ohio--Literary Ohio
Places: Bellefontaine (Ohio); Logan County (Ohio)
 

Description: Reconstruction of the home of Ebenezer Zane in Logan County, Ohio. The home was built in 1805 and used as an army headquarters in the War of 1812. The photograph was taken ca. 1940-1949. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00368
Subjects: Logan County (Ohio); Ohio History--Settlement and Early Statehood
Places: Logan County (Ohio)