Description: Main Street in New Straitsville, Perry County, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B10F12_001_001
Subjects: Perry County (Ohio); New Straitsville (Ohio)--Photographs
Places: New Straitsville (Ohio); Perry County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph is a view of Main St and Bridge in Crooksville, Ohio. Crooksville is a village of about 1.5 square miles in Perry County. It is the home of the well know Hull Pottery. In July, Crooksville, along with neighboring Roseville, host the Crooksville-Roseville Pottery Festival View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: SA1039AV_B10F12_003_001
Subjects: Perry County (Ohio)
Places: Crooksville (Ohio) Perry County (Ohio)
 

Description: This photograph shows an exterior image of St. Joseph's Church and Priory, Somerset, Ohio, ca. 1935-1943. St. Joseph's Church, a log cabin erected in 1818, was the first Catholic church built in Ohio. This Gothic structure, which dates from 1843, is the third St. Joseph's Church erected on the site. The attached priority was dedicated in 1882. The church and priority are situated at the top of a gradual incline, behind an expanse of lawn and trees. Father Edward Fenwick (1768-1832), a member of the Order of Friars Preachers (commonly known as the Dominicans), traveled from Kentucky to Ohio as a missionary in 1808. A year later Jacob and Catharine Dittoe deeded 320 acres of land to Father Fenwick for the site of a church. The first church was a small log cabin dedicated on December 6, 1818, by Father Fenwick and his nephew, Father Nicholas Dominic Young. It had a dirt floor and measured only 18 feet by 22 feet. In 1821 Father Fenwick became the first Bishop of Cincinnati, a new diocese. Membership in St. Joseph's Church continued to grow, as did the number of priestly vocations. In 1828 a brick church replaced the log cabin, and a priory for resident friars was completed in 1837. A college for the education of future priests was completed in 1854. In 1843 the current Gothic structure was dedicated, four years after its construction began. In 1864 fire destroyed the priority and left only the church's brick shell. The church was rebuilt three years later, and the college was demolished to make way for the 1882 priory. St. Joseph's Church was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06172
Subjects: Church buildings--Ohio; Perry County (Ohio); Fenwick, Edward D. (Edward Dominic), 1768-1832; Dominicans; Somerset (Ohio); Cultural Ohio--Education; National Register of Historic Places
Places: Somerset (Ohio); Perry County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photographic postcard with a distant view of Junction City in Perry County, Ohio, 1911. Junction City was established in 1872 by the merger of the towns of Trio City and Damascus. George Wolf and John Edmiston owned adjoining farms that became the towns of Damascus and Trio City in Perry County, Ohio. As the towns grew closer together, problems ensued between Wolf and Edmiston. They agreed to submit their claims to arbitration and it was recommended that the two towns be disbanded in favor of one, named Junction City. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03710
Subjects: Perry County (Ohio); Ohio Economy--Transportation and Development
Places: Junction City (Ohio); Perry County (Ohio)
 

Description: Sugar Creek Coal Mine, mine # 6 shaft and coal tipple, Perry County, Ohio, ca. 1940-1949. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00394
Subjects: Perry County (Ohio); Ohio Economy--Economy--Labor
Places: Perry County (Ohio)
 

Description: Small, leaf-shaped biface projectile point of the Robbins type that has a narrow stem that is roughly rectangular. The basal edge of the stem is slightly convex. It is made of dark gray Flint Ridge flint. Item was found in Perry County, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07102
Subjects: Perry County (Ohio); Ohio History--Natural and Native Ohio; Archaeology; Adena Culture (800 B.C.–A.D. 100);
Places: Perry County (Ohio)
 

Description: Small, leaf-shaped biface projectile point of the Robbins type that has a narrow stem that is roughly rectangular. The basal edge of the stem is flat. It is made of dark gray flint from Flint Ridge. Item was found in Perry County, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07103
Subjects: Perry County (Ohio); Ohio History--Natural and Native Ohio; Archaeology; Adena Culture (800 B.C.–A.D. 100);
Places: Perry County (Ohio)
 

Description: Fragment of a slate pop-eye type birdstone is the head portion of a stylized bird form. The beak is long and tapering, ending in a small flattened surface. The eyes are small cylinders that project about 8 mm from the head. Two holes were drilled prehistorically on either side of the neck, presumably for reattaching it to the body, which is missing. The fragment is very dark gray with black bands. Although the function of birdstones is unknown, they might have served as highly-decorative spearthrower weights. Item was found in Perry County, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07101
Subjects: Perry County (Ohio); Ohio History--Natural and Native Ohio; Archaeology; Glacial Kame Culture (8000-800 B.C.)
Places: Perry County (Ohio)
 

Description: Lanceolate projectile point is long and narrow with a squared base. It has some parallel flake scars and some grinding on the base. It is mottled gray and very dark gray and light gray with some dark brown and white. Item was found in Perry County, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07105
Subjects: Perry County (Ohio); Ohio History--Natural and Native Ohio; Archaeology
Places: Perry County (Ohio)
 

Description: Small biface projectile point of the Kanawha Stemmed type has a triangular blade that has been extensively resharpened, which resulted in inwardly curving blade edges and sharply projecting ears. Corner notches and a U-shaped indentation separate the base into two lobes. It is made of black flint. Item was found in Perry County, Ohio. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL07106
Subjects: Perry County (Ohio); Ohio History--Natural and Native Ohio; Archaeology
Places: Perry County (Ohio)
 

Description: Elizabeth Green, a refugee of the mine fire in New Straitsville, Ohio, ca. 1930. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00027
Subjects: Perry County (Ohio); Multicultural Ohio--Ohio Women
Places: New Straitsville (Ohio); Perry County (Ohio)
 

Description: Mrs. Kenneth Rush feeding chickens as the New Straitsville mine fire burns under her family's land, ca. 1930. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL00028
Subjects: Perry County (Ohio); Multicultural Ohio--Ohio Women
Places: New Straitsville (Ohio); Perry County (Ohio)