Description: Stock certificate for the Mahoning Coal Rail Road Company, ca. 1871-1900. The company, which was incorporated in 1871, extended from Youngstown, Ohio, to Andover, Ohio (a distance of about 38 miles). The certificate, numbered 972, has no information in its fields. An oval-shaped illustration includes images of a steamboat, locomotive and train cars, depot, and bystanders. Share price is $50. The company's predecessors were Mahoning and Shenango Valley; Shenango Valley; Stewart Railroad. Its successor was Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railroad, which in 1914 merged with New York Central and Hudson River Railroad to form New York Central Railroad. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05780
Subjects: Stock certificates--1890-1900; Railroads--Ohio; Mahoning County (Ohio); Ohio Economy--Economy--Business
 

Description: Reverse reads:" Entrance to Youngstown College Youngstown, Ohio Mahoning County." Picture shows Jones Hall at the corner of Wick and Lincoln avenues in Youngstown, Ohio. Jones hall is a three story limestone structure build in the Tudor architectural style, with oriel windows and a four-centered (Tudor) arch entrance way flanked by octahedral crossing towers. The towers each feature an octahedral spire with a cross-shaped finial at the top. The picture appears to be taken from the edge of the road so a cement sidewalk separates the building from the foreground. Several large trees grow in the lawn outside of the building. Formerly known as simply the "main building," Jones Hall was renamed in 1967 in honor of Howard W. Jones, former president of Youngstown College. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B14F11_003_001
Subjects: Youngstown College, Youngstown, Ohio; Youngstown (Ohio)--History--Pictorial works;
Places: Youngstown (Ohio); Mahoning (Ohio)
 

Description: This color image shows an exterior view of the Old Mahoning County Courthouse, Canfield, Ohio, ca. 1960-1969. Mahoning County was created in 1846 by combining townships from southern Trumbull and northern Columbiana counties. Canfield competed successfully with several surrounding communities to become the new county's seat. Its success was attributed to its central location and also to the political influence of Judge Eben Newton and Elisha Whittlesey, Esq., comptroller of the United States Treasury from 1849-1857. The State of Ohio required the county to provide "a suitable lot and $5,000 toward public buildings." Judge Newton donated the land and spearheaded the subscription of the state-required bond. This Greek Revival courthouse was completed in 1848, and an Italianate-style west wing was added in 1862. Canfield's governmental status was challenged in the early 1870s when Youngstown, by now a city, resumed its earlier quest to become the county seat. To meet the challenge, Canfield hired James A. Garfield, future president of the United States, to defend it before the Ohio Supreme Court. The Court's 1876 decision favored Youngstown, thus ending Canfield's era as the seat of Mahoning Valley government. With government records removed to Youngstown, the property reverted to Judge Newton, who donated it for educational purposes. For more than four decades the old courthouse housed both private and public schools until a 1923 public auction by the Canfield Village Board of Education dispensed with the building. Now under private ownership, the former courthouse served many commercial enterprises, including the temporary return of a county district court. An exterior restoration in the 1960s and the reconstruction of the missing bell tower returned the aging beauty to its present status as one of Ohio's finest examples of public architecture. The Old Mahoning County Courthouse was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06629
Subjects: Courthouses; Justice centers; Justice--Administration of; National Register of Historic Places; Mahoning County (Ohio); Canfield (Ohio); Local government
Places: Canfield (Ohio); Mahoning County (Ohio)
 

Description: James Avant, of Mahoning County, was electrocuted December 5, 1924, for the Murder of Mrs. Elizabeth Stiyle. He was a black male age forty one and his occupation was a handyman. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL08153
Subjects: Ohio History--State and Local Government--Law; Prisons--Ohio; Death row; Capital punishment--Ohio; Portrait photography; Mahoning County (Ohio)
Places: Mahoning County (Ohio)
 

Description: Lake Milton spillway in Mahoning County, Ohio, ca. 1940-1949 View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00376
Subjects: Mahoning County (Ohio); Lakes & ponds; Nature; Ohio History--Natural and native Ohio
Places: Mahoning County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph of a group of people in hard hats observing the demolition of a portion of the Ohio Works, U.S. Steel in Youngstown, Ohio, on August 7, 1983. U.S. Steel, headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was founded in 1901. In the early twentieth century the company manufactured more than sixty percent of the steel made in the United States. However, by the early 1980s, changes in the steel industry led the company to drastically reduce its steel production and become more diversified. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04499
Subjects: Mahoning County (Ohio); Ohio Economy--Economy--Business; Steel industry and trade--Ohio--Youngstown--History; Factories
Places: Youngstown (Ohio); Mahoning County (Ohio); Trumbull County (Ohio)
 

Description: This is a photograph of Steve Myeski of Mahoning County, Ohio. He was electrocuted June 23, 1922, for the murder of Stella Korn. He was a white male, age twenty-two and his occupation is unknown. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL08134
Subjects: Ohio History--State and Local Government--Law; Prisons--Ohio
Places: Mahoning County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph shows the Friends Yearly Meeting House in Damascus in Mahoning County, Ohio. The sign above the door reads "Ohio Yearly Meeting Friends Church August 23-28 1938." Constructed in 1857, the meeting house served as a place of worship and community for members of the Quaker community, and remained in use until 1975. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06839
Subjects: Quakers; Society of Friends; Quaker meeting houses; Religion in Ohio
Places: Damascus (Ohio); Goshen Township (Ohio); Mahoning County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph shows George Davis, a 24-year-old man, of Mahoning County, Ohio. Davis was electrocuted on October 17th, 1935 for the murder of Thomas McClain in Youngstown, Ohio. In 1885, the Ohio Penitentiary became the site of all executions for prisoners on death row; formerly, executions had taken place in the county where the crime was committed. In 1896, the Ohio General Assembly mandated that electrocution replace hanging as the form of capital punishment. Throughout the 1930s, the Ohio Penitentiary in Columbus, Ohio, displayed photographs of inmates who were sentenced to death. 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: AL08247
Subjects: Ohio History--State and Local Government--Law; Ohio History--State and Local Government--Corrections; Capital punishment--Ohio--History; Electrocution; Death row; Ohio Penitentiary (Columbus, Ohio)
Places: Mahoning County (Ohio); Youngstown (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio); Columbus (Ohio)
 

Description: Ohio AFL-CIO Civil Rights Conference, Youngstown, Mahoning County, Ohio, ca. 1960-1969. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00652
Subjects: Social movements; Ohio Economy--Economy--Labor
Places: Youngstown (Ohio); Mahoning County (Ohio)
 

Description: Reverse reads: "District #5, 902 Municipal Bldg. Akron, November 19, 1937. Public square, Alliance, Ohio, showing First National Bank Building and World War Memorial." This photograph depicts downtown from the public square in Alliance, Ohio. There is a statue on the right side of the frame and several people standing on the sidewalk. Some of the storefronts include Vale's Drug Store, C.C. Crawford Co., and the Suburban Power Co. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B13F07_006_001
Subjects: Central business districts; Storefronts--United States--Pictorial works; Alliance (Ohio)--History--Pictorial works; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project.
Places: Alliance (Ohio); Stark County (Ohio); Mahoning County (Ohio)
 

Description: This image shows the front facade of the Mahoning County Courthouse. This Renaissance Revival courthouse was built during the county's golden industrial period and contains some of the finest materials available-- terracotta, marble and Honduran mahogany. The lobby is one of the buildings grandest features. The ceiling of the lobby is a forty-foot diameter stained-glass dome. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV101_B01F04_301
Subjects: Courthouses--Ohio; National Register of Historic Places; columns (architectural elements); entablatures; cornices; balustrades; pavilions (building divisions); Renaissance Revival
Places: Youngstown (Ohio); Mahoning County (Ohio); 120 Market St.