Description: Mapmaker John Melish created this map of Ohio around 1812. The map shows the land office districts in Ohio, including the Virginia Military District, and Ohio Company and the Western Reserve lands. The border of the American Indian lands in the northwest part of the state is drawn on the map. It is hand colored and measures 9.45" x 9.45" (24 x 24 cm). Originally from Scotland, Melish was an important figure in early United States cartography, or mapmaking. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: Om1529_1169180_001
Subjects: Geography and Natural Resources; American Indians in Ohio; Maps--Midwest--Ohio
Places: Ohio
 

Description: Map of Ohio and part of Pennsylvania with their latest improvements, 1837. This map shows the canals, railroads and other roads. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06750
Subjects: Maps--Ohio; Maps--Pennsylvania; Maps--Midwest--Ohio
Places: Ohio; Pennsylvania
 

Description: This 1866 map shows Cincinnati, Ohio, as well as Newport and Covington, Kentucky, directly across the Ohio River. It was drawn by Gilbert & Hickenlooper (of No. 200 Vine Street in Cincinnati) for inclusion in the 1866 edition of the Williams' Cincinnati Directory. Covington and Newport are two Kentucky cities situated on the Ohio River and separated from one another by the Licking River. They are considered a part of the Cincinnati Metropolitan Area (or Greater Cincinnati) which includes counties in Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana. These two cities were first connected by bridge in 1853, and the John Roebling Suspension Bridge, connecting Covington with Cincinnati across the Ohio River, was completed in 1866. In 1788, Israel Ludlow, Matthias Denman, and Robert Patterson purchased eight hundred acres from John Cleves Symmes along the Ohio River at the Licking River's mouth. By early January 1789, Ludlow had platted the town, and the three men named the town Losantiville. The name was a convoluted contraction of the idea that this was a "city across from the mouth of the Licking River." In 1790, the governor of the Northwest Territory, Arthur St. Clair, proceeded to establish Hamilton County and made Losantiville the county seat. St. Clair disliked the name Losantiville and changed the town's name to Cincinnati in recognition of the Roman citizen soldier Cincinnatus. Cincinnati emerged as a major city, primarily due to its strategic location on the Ohio River, and by 1820 had reached a population of nearly ten thousand people. By the late 1880s, Cincinnati was the largest city in Ohio, with almost 300,000 people. It also had the densest population of any city in the United States, with an average of 37,143 people per square mile. By 1890, Cincinnati had provided Ohio with thirteen governors and had become an important industrial, political, literary, and educational center in both Ohio and the United States. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: MAPVFM0426_4
Subjects: Cincinnati (Ohio)--History; Ohio River; Maps--Midwest--Ohio; Bridges--Ohio River;
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio); Newport (Kentucky); Covington (Kentucky)
 

Description: Map of Wyandot County, 1879, with townships including Ridge, Crawford, Tymochtee, Sycamore, Richland, Salem, Crane, Eden, Jackson, Mifflin, Pitt, Antrim and Marseilles. On February 3, 1845, the Ohio government authorized the creation of Wyandot County. Residents named the county in honor of the Wyandot Indians. Previously, the county had been part of land reserved to Ohio’s American Indian population, under the Treaty of Greeneville. Wyandot County is located in northern Ohio. It is predominantly rural, with only four percent of the county’s 406 square miles consisting of urban areas. The county seat is Upper Sandusky. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: A912_771_W97h_WyandotCo
Subjects: Wyandot County (Ohio); Ohio History--Settlement and Early Statehood; Maps--Midwest--Ohio
Places: Wyandot County (Ohio)
 

Description: Illustrated atlas of the upper Ohio River and Ohio River Valley region, covering the area from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to Cincinnati, Ohio., 1877. This atlas includes an index which explains the segments of the river mapped in the volume, as well as extensive illustrations depicting notable residences, sites and cities found along the Ohio River. Also includes several pages of "Patrons' Business Notices." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: Page1
Subjects: Maps--Midwest--Ohio; Ohio Economy--Transportation and Development; Ohio River Valley--History; Ohio River; Cities and towns--Ohio;
Places: Ohio River; Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio); Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania);
 

Description: Photographic reproduction of a print depicting the McCoy House, located in Bucyrus, Ohio. This image is a detail from "Map of Crawford County, Ohio/Drawn and Published by M.H and J.V.B Watson," a map that is part of the Library of Congress (LOC) map collection. According the LOC's description, the map "includes views of public, residential, and commercial properties, distance table, statistical table, insets of Galion, Bucyrus, and Crestline." An inset with a street map of Bucyrus shows the location of McCoy House to be at the southwest corner of Sandusky Avenue and the public square. Given the image's context, the McCoy House likely was a hotel. The 1875-1876 Bucyrus City Directory shows this location as the site of the Alcorn House, which was advertised as a hotel and restaurant that served liquor. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06088
Subjects: Crawford County (Ohio); Maps--Midwest--Ohio; Ohio Economy--Economy--Business
Places: Bucyrus (Ohio); Crawford County (Ohio)
 

Description: This hand-colored map titled "Colton's Railroad and Township Map of the State of Ohio" features individually-colored counties, routes of railroads (both under construction and finished), canals, post roads, and census listings by county for the years 1840 and 1850. A vignette in the lower right corner shows the "State capitol at Columbus." The J. H. Colton Company was founded by Joseph Colton in 1831, and produced high-quality prints maps with distinctive decorative borders. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: MAPVFM_0126_0014F
Subjects: Maps--Midwest--Ohio; Ohio History--Settlement and Early Statehood; Transportation--Ohio--History; Ohio Statehouse (Columbus, Ohio); Canals; Railroads--Ohio;
Places: Ohio
 

Description: Map of the State of Ohio 1807 by John Mansfield. Caption in the lower right-hand corner reads: "Map of the State of Ohio taken from the returns in the office of the Surveyor General by John F. Mansfield." The U.S. Surveyor General at the time was Jared Mansfield (1759-1830), a mathematician and surveyor whose book "Essays, Mathematical and Physical" so impressed Thomas Jefferson that the president appointed him to the inaugural faculty of West Point (1802) and in 1803 as Surveyor General, a post he held until 1812. Mansfield's assignment was to "survey Ohio and lands north of the Ohio, River." Later the scope of his assignment also included Indiana Territory and Illinois Territory. Mansfield applied the principles of scientific surveying to his work, thus laying the groundwork for future land surveys conducted during the nation's expansion. John F. Mansfield, the map's creator, possibly may be John Fenno Mansfield, the surveyor general's nephew who was noted for his scientific ability and who died during the War of 1812. The city of Mansfield, Ohio, is named after Jared Mansfield. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05666
Subjects: Maps--Midwest--Ohio; Historical map; Map drawing; Ohio History--Settlement and Early Statehood
Places: Ohio
 

Description: Caption: Chickamauga Battlefield sketched by J.G. McElroy of the Ohio Commission, Late Captain 18th Ohio Infantry 1895. The Great Seal of the State of Ohio lies below. Made in 1895, this map includes Ohio monuments and tablet markers in relation to strategic movements of the Confederate and Union forces on September 18 and 19, 1863. The battle pitted the Union's Army of the Cumberland, commanded by General William Rosecrans of Ohio, against the Confederate's Army of Tennessee, commanded by General Braxton Bragg. The Northern army numbered approximately sixty thousand men, while the Confederates had forty-three thousand soldiers. Major General William S. Rosecrans from Delaware County, Ohio commanded the Army of the Cumberland. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: Chikamauga_ALConsWOH4261-9
Subjects: Maps--Topography; Pictorial maps; Maps--Midwest--Ohio; Civil War 1861-1865; Historical Marker;
Places: Chickamauga (Georgia); Delaware County (Ohio)