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: The full title of this map is "The Tourist's Pocket Map of the State of Ohio, Exhibiting its Internal Improvements; Roads, Distances, Etc." This map shows counties, county towns, roads, canals, and proposed canals, as well as parts of adjoining states and Canada. Profiles of the Ohio and Erie Canal and Miami Canal are both pictured. This map would have been folded and included in the front of a guide book to Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: MAPVFM_0020_4
Subjects: Maps--Ohio; Transportation--Ohio--History; Geography and Natural Resources; Ohio and Erie Canal (Ohio); Miami and Erie Canal (Ohio); Tourism;
Places: Ohio
 

Description: This map shows American Indian trails and war roads throughout the southwestern Ohio region, dating from the last decades of the 18th century. Also identified on the map are locations of towns, camps and settlements; millitary forts and stockades; important natural resources; sites of battles during the Ohio Indian Wars; and other points of interest. According to the title, the map was drawn by Morten Carlisle and published in 1930, and was compiled from a map by R. G. Lewis and Walter M. Dawley with the aid of W. H. Burtner and John B. Hunley. The original map has been split into six pieces. The final digital image shows these pieces positioned in their original order. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: MAPVFM0434_4_01
Subjects: American Indian history; American Indians--Maps; Ohio History--Settlement and Early Statehood; American Indian tribal leaders; Battlefields;
Places: Southwestern Ohio
 

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: This map titled "Beauty Spots & Parks of Cleveland & Vicinity," was produced by the Federal Arts Project of the Works Progress Administration, with a note on its reverse which reads "Graphic Arts Map. Beauty Spots & Parks of Cleveland & Vicinity, Mr. Hawkins" and a stamp for Ernest Graham, Cleveland, Ohio. Main points on the map include the Stadium, Brookside Park Zoo, Garfield Park, Washington Park, Forest City Park, Rockefeller Park, Woodland Hills Park and several spots are marked 'Metropolitan Park System.' This photograph is one of the many visual materials collected for use in the Ohio Guide. In 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt established the Works Progress Administration by executive order to create jobs for the large numbers of unemployed laborers, as well as artists, musicians, actors, and writers. The Federal Arts Program, a sector of the Works Progress Administration, included the Federal Writers’ Project, one of the primary goals of which was to complete the America Guide series, a series of guidebooks for each state which included state history, art, architecture, music, literature, and points of interest to the major cities and tours throughout the state. Work on the Ohio Guide began in 1935 with the publication of several pamphlets and brochures. The Reorganization Act of 1939 consolidated the Works Progress Administration and other agencies into the Federal Works Administration, and the Federal Writers’ Project became the Federal Writers’ Project in Ohio. The final product was published in 1940 and went through several editions. The Ohio Guide Collection consists of 4,769 photographs collected for use in Ohio Guide and other publications of the Federal Writers’ Project in Ohio from 1935-1939. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B04F08_10_01
Subjects: Cleveland (Ohio)--Maps; Cleveland Region (Ohio)--Maps; Cleveland Metropolitan Area (Ohio)--Maps; Parks--Ohio--Cleveland
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph is of a map of the east side of downtown Cincinnati, Ohio. Main roads on this map are Central Parkway, Reading Road and Eggleston Avenue. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B04F03_26_01
Subjects: Cincinnati Metropolitan Area (Ohio)--Maps; Cincinnati (Ohio)--Maps; Cincinnati (Ohio). East End
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Caption reads "US Route 50, W. of Chillicothe. William 'Billy' Ireland's favorite picture." Billy Ireland worked as a cartoonist for the Columbus Dispatch for 37 years, from 1898 to 1935. He created editorial cartoons and a Sunday feature entitled "The Passing Show." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B02F10_008_1
Subjects: Roads--Ohio--Ross County--Maps; Roads--Ohio--Ross County--Maps; Historic sites--Ohio--Ross County--Maps
Places: Ross County (Ohio)
 

Description: The photograph shows an illustration of the original town plat of Springfield, Ohio. The eight buildings are numbered, but there is no legend of what these buildings are. In the upper right corner, the map reads, "SPRINGFIELD, O., / ORIGINAL TOWN PLAT / Buildings Erected Before 1804" The map shows Buck Creek, Mill Run, North Street, Main Street (now Columbia Street), South Street (now Main Street), West Street (now Fountain Street), Limestone Street, and East Street (now Spring Street). View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B13F05_036_001
Subjects: Maps; Pictorial maps; Springfield (Ohio)--Maps; Illustrations; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Springfield (Ohio); Clark County (Ohio)
 

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: The picture is a map of all of Tuscarawas County. It includes points of interest across the county, state roads and U.S. roads and the different townships. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B14F02_006_001
Subjects: Cities and towns--Ohio--Tuscarawas County--Maps.; Historic sites--Ohio--Tuscarawas County--Maps.
Places: Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: This mill was on the Venice mill-race of Erie County, Ohio. A mill-race is an artificial channel that was created to power mills. Many different types of mills were set up along the Venice mill-race. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B05F01A_008_1
Subjects: Venice (Ohio); Groundwater--Ohio--Erie County--Maps; Erie County (Ohio)--History
Places: Venice (Ohio); Erie County (Ohio)
 

Description: This is a photograph of Ahaz Merchant's 1835 rendering which was the first accurate, published map of Cleveland, rectifying British Lieutenant Henry Bayfield's 1817-1818 "Sketch of the Mouth of the Cayanoga River." The Village of Cleveland planned for its eventual growth in a 1797 survey; the two-acre, ten-acre, and hundred-acre lots then defined are visible in Merchant's map. The map provided fodder for real estate speculation, especially on the west side of the river, in Ohio City. This photograph is one of the many visual materials collected for use in the Ohio Guide. In 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt established the Works Progress Administration by executive order to create jobs for the large numbers of unemployed laborers, as well as artists, musicians, actors, and writers. The Federal Arts Program, a sector of the Works Progress Administration, included the Federal Writers’ Project, one of the primary goals of which was to complete the America Guide series, a series of guidebooks for each state which included state history, art, architecture, music, literature, and points of interest to the major cities and tours throughout the state. Work on the Ohio Guide began in 1935 with the publication of several pamphlets and brochures. The Reorganization Act of 1939 consolidated the Works Progress Administration and other agencies into the Federal Works Administration, and the Federal Writers’ Project became the Federal Writers’ Project in Ohio. The final product was published in 1940 and went through several editions. The Ohio Guide Collection consists of 4,769 photographs collected for use in Ohio Guide and other publications of the Federal Writers’ Project in Ohio from 1935-1939. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B04F10_42_01
Subjects: Cleveland (Ohio)--Maps; Merchant, Ahaz; Maps.; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)