Description: Taken by photographer Louis Baus, this photographic reproduction shows a view of Zoar, Ohio, from the Zoar Hotel tower looking northeast in 1888. Led by Joseph Bimeler in 1817, a group of Lutheran separatists left the area of Germany known as Wurttemberg and eventually established the small community of Zoar in Tuscarawas County, Ohio. They would become known as the Society of Separatists of Zoar in 1819. After Bimeler's death in 1853, the unity of the village declined, and by 1898 the Zoarites disbanded the society. The remaining residents divided the property, and the community continued to prosper in Zoar. Louis Baus was a prominent photographer in Cleveland, Ohio, who began his career with studio work, but in 1911 became a staff writer for the "Cleveland Advocate, " a local newspaper that was later purchased by the "Cleveland Plain Dealer." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P223_B04_Series2Album1_42
Subjects: Zoar (Tuscarawas County, Ohio); Society of Separatists of Zoar; Communal Societies; Topography
Places: Zoar (Ohio); Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
 

Description: Close-up photograph of a topographic map of Fort Hill by the United States Geological Survey. Fort Hill Earthworks and Nature Preserve is a 1300-acre, heavily-wooded tract located near Hillsboro in Highland County, Ohio. Including Fort Ancient and Spruce Hill, Fort Hill is one of three large hilltop enclosures in the southwest part of the state. The site's 50-acre earthwork is enclosed by nearly 1.5 miles of walls and sits at the crest of a particularly steep hill above Ohio Brush Creek. The walls follow the hill’s irregular outline just below the crest and are punctuated by 33 irregularly spaced gaps or gateways. Fort Hill was likely erected by people of the Hopewell culture somewhere between 100 B.C. and A.D. 400, more as a ceremonial precinct rather than a defensive position. The Hopewell timeframe is further suggested by materials recovered in the 1940s and 50s during fieldwork at a habitation site in the valley below the enclosure. An absolute date of AD 306+/-58 was later determined through hydration dating of an obsidian biface fragment recovered in the 1950s, further establishing an overall Hopewell presence at Fort Hill. There are hiking trails to the fort and the preserve itself can be accessed from Ohio’s Buckeye Trail from where it crosses the Preserve. The site, which is managed by the Arc of Appalachia for the Ohio History Connection, is open year-round except during a controlled hunting season in the fall. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV17_B02F03_E2_06
Subjects: Fort Hill (Ohio); Earthworks (Archaeology); Hopewell Culture (A.D. 1-400) (A.D. 1–400); State parks & reserves; Natural features; Maps -- Topography;
Places: Highland County (Ohio)
 

Description: Printed by Krebs Lithographing Company and published by M. & R. Burgheim ca. 1880, this is a map of Cincinnati, Ohio, its suburbs, and Covington and Newport, Kentucky. Regions that make up Hamilton County are colored, and the Ohio River demarcates the southern border of Cincinnati and the State of Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: MAPVFM0101_F_400
Subjects: Cincinnati (Ohio); Maps; Topography; Ohio River
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Published by Edward Mendenhall in 1867, this is a map of Cincinnati, Ohio, and Covington and Newport, Kentucky. The Ohio River demarcates the border between Ohio and Kentucky. A pencilled note on the Mt. Adams neighborhood reads "not thickly inhabited" while on the Ohio River is written "looks very well on paper + appears to be admirably adapted to suicidal purposes." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: MAPVFM0175_2
Subjects: Cincinnati (Ohio); Maps; Topography; Ohio River
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio); Covington (Kentucky); Newport (Kentucky)
 

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)
 

Description: Taken in 1971 by U.S. Army medic Charles Tweel, this photograph shows an aerial view of a rural area of Vietnam, probably the Lowlands, a 10 mile stretch of land between the east coast on the South China Sea and the mountains. This photograph is part of the Charles Tweel Collection (AV 324) at the Ohio History Connection. Charles Tweel grew up in Columbus, Ohio, and attended The Ohio State University. After graduation in 1968, he enlisted in the U.S. Army as a non-combatant, first training as a medic at Fort Sam Huston, followed by nine months of additional training at Valley Forge General Hospital in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania. He finished his training as a Specialist 3 and 91C, MOS, and went on to serve in Bamberg, Germany, with combat engineers for one year. In January 1971, Tweel served in Vietnam with the Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 2nd Battalion (Air Mobile), 506th Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, based out of Camp Evans near Phu Bai, north of Hue, until December of that year. Tweel spent most of his service on various firebases as the medic in charge, and occasionally shared firebases with South Vietnamese soldiers. He also visited MedCAP stations (Medical Civic Action Programs) where he treated civilians. Tweel received the Bronze Star Medal for meritorious achievement, and was promoted to Specialist 5 in 1971. After discharge from the Army, he went to medical school and was in private practice as a family practitioner from 1979-2016, and now works part-time in inner city medical clinics in Columbus, Ohio, and Charleston, South Carolina. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV324_B01F04_006
Subjects: Vietnam War (1961-1975); United States. Army. Airborne Division, 101st; Aerial photographs; Topography
Places: Vietnam
 

Description: This is a map of Cincinnati, Ohio, created in 1855, which shows the city of Cincinnati, bordered by the Ohio River to the south. A thick, decorative border of floral motifs frames the map. Cincinnati was settled in 1788 and is now one of Ohio's largest cities and the county seat of Hamilton County. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: MAPVFM0114_4
Subjects: Cincinnati (Ohio); Maps; Ohio River; Topography
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio)