Description: This photograph is a view of the Muskingum River near McConnelsville, Ohio View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B11F10_006_001
Subjects: McConnellsville (Ohio); Muskingum River (Ohio)
Places: McConnelsville (Ohio); Morgan County (Ohio)
 

Description: This is a photograph along the Muskingum River at McConnelsville, Ohio taken from an elevation. Alongside the river farm houses and farmland can be seen in the distance. The Muskingum River is a tributary of the Ohio River, approximately 111 miles long, in southeastern Ohio in the United States. An important commercial route in the 19th century, it flows generally southward through the eastern hill country of Ohio. Via the Ohio, it is part of the Mississippi River watershed. McConnelsville is a village in Morgan County, Ohio, United States. It is the county seat of Morgan County. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B11F10_019_001
Subjects: Muskingum River (Ohio)--1930-1950; Morgan County (Ohio)--History; McConnelsville (Ohio)
Places: McConnelsville (Ohio); Morgan County (Ohio)
 

Description: An image of McConnelsville showing a bridge extending over the Muskingum river. McConnelsville was first known as Old Town, before it had its current name which comes from one of the men who lived there in the early days of the community. Through the 19th century the town expanded, partly thanks to its strategic placement right by a body of water. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06731
Subjects: McConnelsville (Ohio); Morgan County (Ohio); Bridges--Ohio; Muskingum River (Ohio)
Places: McConnelsville (Ohio); Morgan County (Ohio); Ohio
 

Description: This photograph is a black-and-white image of a colorful mural titled "Mail—The Connecting Link’," painted in 1938 by artist Sally F. Haley (1908-2007). The mural depicts the significant role that mail (and the postal service) plays in the life of individuals and of the entire nation. Three human figures (a mail carrier, a woman, and a little girl) occupy the center of the image, forming a triangular space that divides the background between urban and rural settings. The mail carrier is delivering a letter to the woman as the little girl watches. Bags of mail travel to distant locations via trains (rural areas and small towns) and boats (large urban areas). On the left side the mural, a railroad signal bears the number “1938,” the year that Haley painted the mural. The mural, painted in oil on canvas, is located in the McConnelsville, Ohio, post office. It measures 5 feet high by 17 feet wide. The mural was funded by the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Section of Painting and Sculpture, one of the department’s three visual arts programs instituted during the Great Depression. Established in 1934, the Section of Painting and Sculpture commissioned artists to create paintings and sculpture that would decorate new federal buildings. The commissions were awarded competitively. Unlike other cultural programs of the New Deal, the Section’s primary goal was to procure art for public buildings, not to provide work relief. Born in Bridgeport, Connecticut, Sally Haley was the daughter of Elizabeth Akers Haley and John P. Haley, a portrait photographer. John Haley was a friend of photographers Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Steichen. Two of Sally’s brothers also became artists. In 1931, Sally Haley graduated from Yale University with a bachelor of fine arts degree. She taught art in a Bridgeport high school for two years, studied art in Germany for a few months, and then returned to the U.S. to paint full time. In 1935 she married artist Michele Russo, and the couple lived in Connecticut until 1947, when they moved to Portland, Oregon. Haley was very active in the Portland art scene, and her paintings were widely praised. She died in 2007 at age 99. In 1988 photographer Connie Girard took color and black-and-white images of this mural for an article in "Timeline" magazine (June/July 1989). View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04495
Subjects: Mural paintings (visual works); Post office buildings--Ohio; United States. Department of the Treasury. Section of Painting and Sculpture; Great Depression and the New Deal; McConnelsville (Ohio)
Places: McConnelsville (Ohio); Morgan County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photograph showing crowds waiting as Red Cross relief supplies are unloaded in McConnelsville, Ohio, following the flood of 1913. In late March 1913, an unusually heavy rainstorm moved into Ohio. It rained steadily for five days and the water levels rose rapidly. By the third day of the downpour, levees were overtopped and many towns suffered disastrous flooding. When the flood waters receded, tons of mud and debris covered the streets, homes, businesses and factories of towns like McConnelsville, along the Muskingum River. The death toll for the disaster stood at 361, and property damages were well over $100,000,000 and 65,000 were forced to temporarily leave their homes. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SC330_F01_01
Subjects: Climate and Weather; Floods--Ohio; Natural disasters; American Red Cross; McConnelsville (Ohio);
Places: McConnelsville (Ohio); Morgan County (Ohio);
 

Description: Photograph of a mural titled "Mail - The Connecting Link" by Sally F. Haley. The mural is located in the McConnelsville, Ohio post office. It is oil on canvas and measures 5' by 17'. The mural was created in 1938 with funding from the Section of Painting and Sculpture, a depression era public works program administered by the Treasury Department that provided work for unemployed artists. They awarded commissions through competitions and paid artists for their work, for a total of more than 1300 murals and 300 sculptures. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04713
Subjects: Artists; Paintings; mural paintings (visual works); Public buildings--Ohio; Great Depression; New Deal, 1933-1939
Places: McConnelsville (Ohio); Morgan County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph of Morgan High School was taken shortly after the building was completed in 1966. Morgan High School is located on State Route 376 three miles south of McConnelsville, Ohio. The slide measures 2.75" x 2.75" (6.99 x 6.99 cm). View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: Om3124_3735810_001
Subjects: Education; Schools
Places: McConnelsville (Ohio); Morgan County (Ohio)
 

Description: Frances Dana Gage (1808-1884) of McConnelsville, Ohio, was an influential participant in the abolitionist, temperance and women's rights movements in Ohio in the years before the American Civil War. In spite of her work throughout the 1840s and 1850s, Gage did not see women gain significant ground in the years prior to the Civil War. After the war, when it became evident that women would not gain rights from the Fourteenth or Fifteenth Amendments, women began to establish a number of national organizations to seek the right to vote. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04122
Subjects: Women's rights; Multicultural Ohio--Ohio Women; Temperance--History; Women abolitionists - Ohio
Places: McConnelsville (Ohio); Morgan County (Ohio)
 

Description: The Morgan County Courthouse in McConnelsville, Morgan County, Ohio. Cars are parked in front of the courthouse, with a gathering to the right of the courthouse. Morgan County in southeastern Ohio was formed on December 29, 1817 and was named after Daniel Morgan, an officer in the American Revolutionary War. McConnelsville was established as the county seat in 1819. Morgan County Courthouse is located in downtown McConnelsville and is considered one of the most impressive in Ohio. The Greek Classic building was built in 1858 at a cost of $10,000. It is still standing and is open to visitors. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07519
Subjects: Courthouses--Ohio--History; Ohio History--State and Local Government; Architecture--Ohio; Morgan County (Ohio); American Revolutionary War, 1775-1783
Places: McConnelsville (Ohio); Morgan County (Ohio)
 

Description: Council Rock, south of McConnellsvile, Morgan County, Ohio. According to local legend, Council Rock was a significant Native American meeting place. The photograph was taken ca. 1940-1949. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00389
Subjects: American Indians; Ohio History--Natural and Native Ohio
Places: McConnelsville (Ohio); Morgan County (Ohio)
 

Description: The Morgan County courthouse was completed in 1858 by architect William Johnson. Though originally a Greek Revival style facade, repairs over the years have incorporated elements of the Second Empire style such as a bracketed cornice and clock tower. This image shows the building's front facade. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV101_B01F05_354
Subjects: Courthouses--Ohio; porticoes; columns (architectural elements); cornices; clock towers; mansard roofs; Greek Revival; Second Empire
Places: McConnelsville (Ohio); Morgan County (Ohio); 19 E. Main St.
 

Description: The Morgan County courthouse was completed in 1858 by architect William Johnson. Though originally a Greek Revival style facade, repairs over the years have incorporated elements of the Second Empire style such as a bracketed cornice and clock tower. This image shows the building's front facade. The statue that sits in front of the courthouse honors Civil War soldiers. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV101_B01F05_353
Subjects: Courthouses--Ohio; porticoes; columns (architectural elements); cornices; clock towers; mansard roofs; Greek Revival; Second Empire
Places: McConnelsville (Ohio); Morgan County (Ohio); 19 E. Main St.