Falls of the Ohio State Park and Interpretive Center

The Falls of the Ohio is the only rocky obstacle on the 981 mile-long Ohio River, dropping 26-feet over 2.5 miles. The rocks are Middle Devonian limestone, heavily laden with corals, sponges and shells, of which some 600 species have ...

The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historic Park

The Chesapeake and Ohio (C&O) Canal is one of the most intact and impressive survivals of the American canal-building era. The C&O Canal is unique in that it remains virtually unbroken and without substantial modification affecting its original character for ...

National Historic Landmark - Ohio Theatre

National Historic Landmark - Ohio Theatre

Built in 1928, this massive Spanish Baroque structure was designed during the -Golden Age-of movie palace construction by Thomas W. Lamb (1871-1942), one of the most prolific and well-known theater architects of the 1920s.

Fully ...

National Historic Landmark-Forks of the Ohio

National Historical Landmark- Forks of the Ohio

This is the junction of the Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers and is the strategic key to the Ohio Valley.

The French erected Fort Duquesne here in 1754; the British replaced it with Fort Pitt ...

Capture of the "Ohio" and "Somers"

Prise des Goelettes "Ohio" et "Somers"

On the night of 12 August 1814, as a prelude to a British attack on Fort Erie, an expedition was mounted against three armed American schooners anchored off the fort. Captain Alexander Dobbs, R.N., embarked ...

The Portage Path Connected Lake Erie with the Ohio River

The First Americans

You are standing at the North Terminus of the renewed Portage Path, which formed the vital link in the shortest and best water route between the great lake to the north and the rivers flowing south. The trail ...

The Ohio River Bridge

Cairo, Illinois - Wickliffe, Kentucky

Completed November 11, 1933

Freed of Tolls November 11, 1948

by

The Cairo Bridge Commission

The Ohio River Bridge was conceived and built in the public interest by the Cairo Bridge Commission with the cooperation of the Federal Emergency Administration ...

The Ohio Oil Co - Marathon Oil Co / Gas Boom Era

Side A: The Ohio Oil Company-Marathon Oil Company

Site of the first Findlay Field Office for what was to become a world-wide oil company, formerly locally owned and operated.

1887: The Ohio Oil Company was incorporated by five independent oil producers in ...

The Glass Industry of Findlay, Ohio

In 1884, the first natural gas well was successfully drilled in Findlay, and when The Great Karg Well, then the largest in the world, was drilled in 1886, the boom was on. Many industries, especially glass, were attracted to Findlay, ...

Ohio Northern University

Henry Solomon Lehr founded Ohio Northern University in 1871 as the Northwestern Ohio Normal School. Its purpose was to train teachers and to provide higher education to the people in Northwest Ohio. In 1885, the school became Ohio Normal University. ...