Description: Ceramic vessel has a globular body with an outward flaring rim. Entire exterior surface is covered in Mixter cordmarking. It is grayish brown in color. Item was excavated from Esch Mounds in Huron Township, Erie County, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07322
Subjects: Ohio History--Natural and Native Ohio; Hopewell Culture (A.D. 1-400) (A.D. 1-400); American Indian history and society
Places: Huron Township (Ohio); Erie County (Ohio)
 

Description: Reverse reads: "Works Progress Administration in Ohio Federal Writers Project 1 902 Municipal Building Akron, Ohio Sept 8 1937 Activity: Foot paths along lake of 27 acres being built by C.C.C. men of Camp Jefferson (Colored) Picture shows part of lake with wooded section where trees are being planted by C.C.C. men. Foot path on left shows type of work done by the boys and extends for several miles into wild game preserve. CCC Camps" This photograph is believed to show Jefferson Lake State Park in Richmond, Ohio. The lake and other park facilities were constructed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. The dam was constructed in 1934, while the lake was filled by 1946. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B12F11_038_001
Subjects: Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.); Dams; Foot paths; Landscapes; Geography and Natural Resources; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Richmond (Ohio); Jefferson County (Ohio)
 

Description: This pipe in effigy (a likeness or representation) of a black bear was excavated from Tremper Mound, a Hopewell culture site located five miles north of Portsmouth in Scioto County. Only the front quarters of the bear are represented. Eyes are drilled and inset with copper. Ears extend from head. Some parts of the pipe have been damaged and other parts have been restored. Made of light olive gray stone, the pipe measures approximately 1.87" x 1.4" x 3.33" (4.8 x 3.6 x 8.5 cm). This pipe is part of a large collection of pipes found at Tremper Mound. The pipes were carved of Ohio pipestone, a silica-based material that can be easily carved when freshly quarried from the hills east of the Scioto River. The pipes represent a variety of animals significant to the Hopewell, including owls, wolves, deer and beaver. Skilled Hopewell craftsmen carved the pipes with flint knives and some are embellished with pearls or copper. In Ohio, the Hopewell Indians (100 B.C.-A.D. 500) built burial mounds and large earthen enclosures in geometric shapes (circles, squares, and octagons) to mark the places where the people gathered periodically to participate in many social and ceremonial events. Some of these sites were quite large--the Newark Earthworks complex extends over a 4-square-mile area. The Hopewell people also maintained a large trade network extending as far as the Rocky Mountains of Wyoming, the Florida coast and Appalachians, and northern Lake Superior. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: Om1357_1756936_006
Subjects: American Indians in Ohio; Plants and Animals; Arts and Entertainment; Geography and Natural Resources; Hopewell Culture (A.D. 1-400); Mounds (Burials); Pipes (Smoking); Bears
Places: Rush Township (Ohio); Scioto County (Ohio)
 

Description: Hemispherical stone has some flattened surfaces with some irregular concentric linear patterning that is part of the internal mineral structure. It is made of very dusky red hematite. Item was excavated from the Greenbrier Mound in Truro Township, Franklin County, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07439
Subjects: Ohio History--Natural and Native Ohio; Adena Culture (800 B.C.–A.D. 100); American Indian history and society; Tools
Places: Truro Township (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Square saddle-type bannerstone is diamond-shaped in cross-section. There is a hole running through the center's long axis. On the upper surface there is a small projection at each end along the center line. The bannerstone is made of gneiss that is reddish gray and reddish black in color. Item was found in Wayne County, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07198
Subjects: Wayne County (Ohio); Ohio History--Natural and Native Ohio; Tools; American Indian history and society
Places: Wayne County (Ohio)
 

Description: Ceramic rimsherd is an example of Adena Plain pottery. It was part of a fairly large jar with a slightly outward bending rim and a flat lip. The surface is plain with no decoration. It is very pale brown and dark gray in color. Item was excavated from Cowan Creek Mound in Vernon Township, Clinton County, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07395
Subjects: Ohio History--Natural and Native Ohio; Adena Culture (800 B.C.–A.D. 100); American Indian history and society; Pottery
Places: Vernon Township (Ohio); Clinton County (Ohio)
 

Description: Caption reads: "New road in Hills and Dales. The lake is hidden by trees near center." Hills and Dales Park was originally a 297-acre gift from John Patterson, the founder of the National Cash Register Company. It was designed between 1906 and 1918 by the Olmsted Brothers landscape architecture firm, who also worked on Central Park in New York City. Today it is owned by the city of Dayton, though its actual location is in Kettering. In 1999, 63 acres of the wooded land was leased to the Five Rivers MetroParks, and promptly named Hills and Dales MetroPark. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B05F09_050_1
Subjects: Parks--Ohio; Dirt Roads; Landscapes; Nature; Trees; Dayton (Ohio). Division of Recreation and Parks; Ohio--History--Pictorial works; Federal Writers' Project
Places: Dayton (Ohio); Montgomery County (Ohio)
 

Description: Roofs dot the landscape as floodwaters rise. 1937 remains the wettest month ever recorded in Ohio. With damage stretching from Pittsburgh to Cairo, Illinois, one million were left homeless, with 385 dead and property losses reaching $500 million. The disaster struck during the Great Depression and just a few years after the Dust Bowl. By the second day of the flood as many as 18,000 WPA workers were on hand to aid families. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B15F04_003_012_008
Subjects: Floods; Natural disasters; Works Progress Administration; Ohio Federal Writers' Project
Places: Ohio
 

Description: Awls made of bone from the Ohio Fort Ancient culture, 900 AD-1500 AD. Excavated from Feurt Mound in Scioto County, Ohio. These objects are held in the Ohio History Connection Archaeology Collection. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00264
Subjects: American Indians--Archaeology; Ohio History--Natural and Native Ohio; Archaeology--United States--History; Fort Ancient Culture (A.D. 1000–1650);
Places: Scioto County (Ohio)
 

Description: Slate pendant is roughly rectangular. The lower end is slightly wider than the top and rounded. Banding of the slate runs lengthwise with dark gray bands on a lighter gray surface. A single hole was drilled in the upper portion. The pendant was broken in half but has been repaired. There are large chips missing from reverse side. Item was excavated from Thomas Brothers Mound in Licking County, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07420
Subjects: Adena Culture (800 B.C.–A.D. 100); Ohio History--Natural and Native Ohio; American Indian history and society
Places: Licking County (Ohio)
 

Description: Small round object, the size of a marble, is made of black steatite. It is incised with "cross" lines. At the center of the "cross" is a diamond shape; lines extend outward from the four corners of the diamond. Two opposing lines end in anchor-like shapes and the other two opposing lines end in teardrop shapes. Item was excavated from Seip Mound in Paxton Township, Ross County, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07292
Subjects: Seip Mound (Ross County, Ohio); Ohio History--Natural and Native Ohio; Archaeology
Places: Paxton Township (Ohio); Ross County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph shows Xenia, Ohio, rescue workers searching through bricks after the April 3, 1974 tornado. The unidentified workers are inside a structure searching through rubble (loose bricks and sections of brick wall). Some of the workers appear to be National Guard members wearing uniform and helmets. The tornado "super outbreak" of April 3-4, 1974, resulted in 148 tornadoes in 13 states. The Xenia tornado caused the most deaths of any tornado in the outbreak. The tornado touched down at 4:30 p.m. nine miles southwest of Xenia and entered the city about ten minutes later. It continued northeastward on a path of 32 miles through Xenia and Wilberforce into Clark County. The tornado killed 32 people from Xenia to Wilberforce. About half of the buildings in the city of 27,000 were damaged, and 300 homes destroyed. Nine Xenia churches were destroyed, as were seven of the twelve schools in the city. Fortunately, the tornado occurred an hour after classes had been dismissed. The roof and windows were blown from the Greene County Courthouse. A train passing through Xenia was struck by the tornado and 7 of the 47 cars were blown over, resulting in the blockage of Main Street. More than 1,300 people were treated for injuries at Green Memorial Hospital. Restaurants that were not destroyed handed out thousands of free meals to residents and rescue workers in Xenia. Convoys of generators, floodlights, bulldozers, and dump trucks arrived overnight from nearby Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. The tornado also struck Wilberforce University and Central State University, destroying many buildings and injuring several people on each campus. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05947
Subjects: Tornadoes--Ohio--Xenia; Xenia (Ohio)--History; Natural disasters; Greene County (Ohio)
Places: Xenia (Ohio); Greene County (Ohio)