Description: The caption reads "Kennedy Ledges Portage County" The Nelson-Kennedy Ledges State Park is located in Nelson Township, Portage County, Ohio. The 167 acre park was established by the Ohio Department of Parks and Recreation in 1949. The nearest town is Garrettsville, Ohio. Popular for picnicking and hiking, the park contains sandstone cliffs 50 to 60 feet high and depressions 60 feet deep. The cliff formations are the result of erosion - wind, water, freezing and thawing that wore away the soft stone. The approximately three miles of hiking trails are color coded with white being moderately easy. yellow and blue are moderately difficult and red is extremely difficult. There are more trails are unmarked and very dangerous. The forest is mainly beech and maple with a few more uncommon cooler climate trees such as Canadian hemlock, Canada yew and yellow birch. Some trees cling to the side of the rocks with the roots searching for every crevice. Under the canopy of the trees is maidenhair fern and Christmas fern. Also found is the less common marginal shield fern, grape fern and common polypody. The trees are home to a variety of song birds and other parts of the park are home to skunks, raccoons and fox squirrels. Because of the cliffs and the hazardous trail, the park is open only from dawn to dusk. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B10F15_001_001
Subjects: Portage County (Ohio); State Parks--Ohio--Pictorial works.
Places: Portage County (Ohio)
 

Description: The caption reads "Kennedy Ledges Portage County" The Nelson-Kennedy Ledges State Park is located in Nelson Township, Portage County, Ohio. The 167 acre park was established by the Ohio Department of Parks and Recreation in 1949. The nearest town is Garrettsville, Ohio. Popular for picnicking and hiking, the park contains sandstone cliffs 50 to 60 feet high and depressions 60 feet deep. The cliff formations are the result of erosion - wind, water, freezing and thawing that wore away the soft stone. The approximately three miles of hiking trails are color coded with white being moderately easy. yellow and blue are moderately difficult and red is extremely difficult. There are more trails are unmarked and very dangerous. The forest is mainly beech and maple with a few more uncommon cooler climate trees such as Canadian hemlock, Canada yew and yellow birch. Some trees cling to the side of the rocks with the roots searching for every crevice. Under the canopy of the trees is maidenhair fern and Christmas fern. Also found is the less common marginal shield fern, grape fern and common polypody. The trees are home to a variety of song birds and other parts of the park are home to skunks, raccoons and fox squirrels. Because of the cliffs and the hazardous trail, the park is open only from dawn to dusk. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B10F15_002_001
Subjects: Portage County (Ohio); State Parks--Ohio--Pictorial works.
Places: Portage County (Ohio)
 

Description: The caption reads "Kennedy Ledges Portage County" The Nelson-Kennedy Ledges State Park is located in Nelson Township, Portage County, Ohio. The 167 acre park was established by the Ohio Department of Parks and Recreation in 1949. The nearest town is Garrettsville, Ohio. Popular for picnicking and hiking, the park contains sandstone cliffs 50 to 60 feet high and depressions 60 feet deep. The cliff formations are the result of erosion - wind, water, freezing and thawing that wore away the soft stone. The approximately three miles of hiking trails are color coded with white being moderately easy. yellow and blue are moderately difficult and red is extremely difficult. There are more trails are unmarked and very dangerous. The forest is mainly beech and maple with a few more uncommon cooler climate trees such as Canadian hemlock, Canada yew and yellow birch. Some trees cling to the side of the rocks with the roots searching for every crevice. Under the canopy of the trees is maidenhair fern and Christmas fern. Also found is the less common marginal shield fern, grape fern and common polypody. The trees are home to a variety of song birds and other parts of the park are home to skunks, raccoons and fox squirrels. Because of the cliffs and the hazardous trail, the park is open only from dawn to dusk. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B10F15_003_001
Subjects: Portage County (Ohio); State Parks--Ohio--Pictorial works.
Places: Portage County (Ohio)
 

Description: The caption reads "Kennedy Ledges Portage County" The Nelson-Kennedy Ledges State Park is located in Nelson Township, Portage County, Ohio. The 167 acre park was established by the Ohio Department of Parks and Recreation in 1949. The nearest town is Garrettsville, Ohio. Popular for picnicking and hiking, the park contains sandstone cliffs 50 to 60 feet high and depressions 60 feet deep. The cliff formations are the result of erosion - wind, water, freezing and thawing that wore away the soft stone. The approximately three miles of hiking trails are color coded with white being moderately easy. yellow and blue are moderately difficult and red is extremely difficult. There are more trails are unmarked and very dangerous. The forest is mainly beech and maple with a few more uncommon cooler climate trees such as Canadian hemlock, Canada yew and yellow birch. Some trees cling to the side of the rocks with the roots searching for every crevice. Under the canopy of the trees is maidenhair fern and Christmas fern. Also found is the less common marginal shield fern, grape fern and common polypody. The trees are home to a variety of song birds and other parts of the park are home to skunks, raccoons and fox squirrels. Because of the cliffs and the hazardous trail, the park is open only from dawn to dusk. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B10F15_004_001
Subjects: Portage County (Ohio); State Parks--Ohio--Pictorial works.
Places: Portage County (Ohio)
 

Description: This is a photograph of William Day (1849-1923). Day was born in Portage County, Ohio. He was state court judge in Ohio, 1886; U.S. Secretary of State, 1898; Judge of U.S. Court of Appeals, 1899; and Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1903-1922. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03919
Subjects: Lawyers--Ohio; Judges; Portage County (Ohio)
Places: Canton (Ohio); Stark County (Ohio); Portage County (Ohio)
 

Description: Nelson Ledges State Park, Portage County, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00303
Subjects: Portage County (Ohio); Ohio History--Natural and Native Ohio
Places: Portage County (Ohio)
 

Description: Farmers harvesting wheat with horse-drawn self-binder, near Streetsboro, Portage County, Ohio, ca. 1940-1949. A self-binder reaps and binds bales of wheat. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00399
Subjects: Portage County (Ohio); Rural life; Harvesting; Farming
Places: Streetsboro (Ohio); Portage County (Ohio)
 

Description: Man on Nelson Ledges at Nelson Ledges State Park in Portage County, Ohio, ca. 1940-1949. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00398
Subjects: Portage County (Ohio); Ohio History--Natural and Native Ohio
Places: Portage County (Ohio)
 

Description: Banded slate birdstone is of the pop-eye type, but has an atypical shape. The body is circular and flat with a short, wedge-shaped projection for the head. An incised line represents the mouth. Two cylindrical projections (3 mm high) represent eyes. The base is a short cylinder about 33 mm in diameter that projects about 12 mm from the body. There are two sets of holes drilled diagonally through the base, presumably for attaching to another surface. It very dark gray banded with black. Although the function of birdstones is unknown, they might have served as highly-decorative spearthrower weights. Item was found in Portage County, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07136
Subjects: Portage County (Ohio); Ohio History--Natural and Native Ohio; Tools; American Indian history and society; Glacial Kame Culture (8000-800 B.C.)
Places: Portage County (Ohio)
 

Description: Student standing by memorial to Sandra Scheuer in the parking lot by Taylor Hall on the campus of Kent State University, May 1979. The memorial is on the site where she was killed, May 4, 1970 when Ohio National Guard troops opened fire on student protesters. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00070
Subjects: Portage County (Ohio); Multicultural Ohio--Ohio Women; Kent State Shootings, Kent, Ohio, 1970
Places: Kent (Ohio); Portage County (Ohio)
 

Description: Alan Canfora speaking at a memorial service for the four students killed on May 4, 1970 at Kent State University, May 4, 1987. Canfora himself was wounded in the wrist on May 4, 1970. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00167
Subjects: Portage County (Ohio); Demonstrations; Kent State Shootings, Kent, Ohio, 1970
Places: Kent (Ohio); Portage County (Ohio)
 

Description: State Senators Ralph Regula and Harry Armstrong painting a "golden blaze" on a post at a dedication ceremony for the Buckeye Trail at Mogadore Reservoir in Portage County, Ohio, October 10, 1970. The Buckeye Trail Association painted blue blazes, 2-by-6 stripes, on trees or posts to mark the trail. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL01800
Subjects: Portage County (Ohio); Ohio History--Natural and Native Ohio
Places: Portage County (Ohio)