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: Chillicothe was named the capital of the Northwest Territory in 1800 and became the first capital of the state of Ohio in 1803. The presence of influential men such as Thomas Worthington, the "father of Ohio statehood" and Edward Tiffin, Ohio's first governor, near Chillicothe made the city a convenient place to locate the capital. The capital was moved to Zanesville in 1810, but returned to Chillicothe in 1812. In 1816 Columbus became the permanent state capital. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B02F10_013_1
Subjects: Central business districts--Ohio--Chillicothe (Ross County)--Maps; Chillicothe (Ross County, Ohio)--History; Shopping--Ohio--Chillicothe (Ross County)--Maps.
Places: Chillicothe (Ohio); Ross County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph shows a dirt road or possibly a lane in rural Champaign County, Ohio. It is lined on both sides with trees. On one side, there is a wooden fence and on the other it looks like a wooden side walk. Just beyond the trees on the right side is a farm house. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B14F04_015_001
Subjects: Urbana (Ohio); Roads--Ohio--Champaign County--Maps.; Champaign County (Ohio)
Places: Urbana (Ohio); Champaign County (Ohio)
 

Description: Caption reads: "Interior of "Slave Tunnel." (No. 2) At the top is a kind of vestibule beneath the house, with a trap door leading to one of the porches and another door giving access to the basement. (Grace Goulder states these are not slave tunnels.)" View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B02F02_024_1
Subjects: Underground Railroad--Ohio.; Ohio Underground Railroad Association; Underground Railroad--Ohio--Maps.
Places: Ohio
 

Description: Map of the siege of Vicksburg, Mississippi by the U.S. forces under the command of Major General Ulysses S. Grant. Surveyed and constructed under direction of Captain C. B. Comstock, U.S. Engineers. Drawn by Charles Spangenberg, Assistant Engineer, Head Quarters of the Department of the Tennessee. Note: Relief shown by hachures. Union and Confederate entrenchments are handcolored blue and red respectively. Detailed map showing roads, streets, railroads, hachures, vegetation, houses, and drainage. Contains five topographic profiles, six cross sections of artillery batteries, and one cross section of a "rebel rifle pit." Scale [ca. 16,800]. (not "four inches to one mile"). The Siege of Vicksburg (May 18 – July 4, 1863) was the final major military action in the Vicksburg Campaign of the American Civil War. In a series of maneuvers, Union Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant and his Army of the Tennessee crossed the Mississippi River and drove the Confederate army of Lt. Gen. John C. Pemberton into the defensive lines surrounding the fortress city of Vicksburg, Mississippi. When two major assaults (May 19 and May 22, 1863) against the Confederate fortifications were repulsed with heavy casualties, Grant decided to besiege the city beginning on May 25. With no reinforcement, supplies nearly gone, and after holding out for more than forty days, the garrison finally surrendered on July 4. This action (combined with the capitulation of Port Hudson on July 9) yielded command of the Mississippi River to the Union forces, who would hold it for the rest of the conflict. The Confederate surrender following the siege at Vicksburg is sometimes considered, when combined with Gen. Robert E. Lee's defeat at Gettysburg the previous day, the turning point of the war. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: Map_Siege_Vicksburg_Miss
Subjects: Vicksburg (Miss.)--History--Siege, 1863--Maps. United States--Mississippi--Vicksburg; Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885--Military leadership
Places: Vicksburg (Mississippi); Warren County (Mississippi)
 

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)