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Marblehead's economy benefits from its lakefront situation, with its fishing, boating, and recreational tourism industries providing employment opportunities for many locals. Marblehead and surrounding attractions in Ottawa and Erie County are collectively known to visitors as "Vacationland," or more recently, Lake Erie's "Shores and Islands."
Company operations were located in Ohio, New York, and West Virginia. Main sites were Kelleys Island (1886-1940) and nearby Marblehead, Ohio (1890s-1955). In 1922, KIL&T built the world's largest stone crushing plant at Marblehead.
Ohio's portion of Lake Erie contains at least 26 islands in the western basin, but the exact number of islands varies, depending on water levels, per the Ohio Sea Grant College Program.
The first map of Ohio to show all the actual surveys within the inhabited part of the state. A rare and early large map of Ohio. County boundaries tinted in color. Townships clearly shown. An extensive key is included detailing land ownership history and some land use. Northwest portion of state not surveyed but shows swamplands and plains.
Johnson's Island is a 300-acre (120 ha) island in Sandusky Bay, located on the coast of Lake Erie, 3 miles (4.8 km) from the city of Sandusky, Ohio. It was the site of a prisoner-of-war camp for Confederate officers captured during the American Civil War .
The average population of Ohio's counties was 133,931; Franklin County was the most populous (1,326,063) and Vinton County was the least (12,474). The average land area is 464 sq mi (1,200 km 2 ). The largest county by area is Ashtabula County at 702.44 sq mi (1,819.3 km 2 ), and its neighbor, Lake County , is the smallest at 228.21 sq mi (591. ...
John C. Wright (Ohio politician) Kelleys Island, Ohio; Kenilworth Avenue Historic District; Kingwood Center; Kirtland Temple; LeVeque Tower; List of state and territory name etymologies of the United States; Longworth Hall; Marblehead Light (Ohio) May Company Ohio; Mount Auburn Historic District; National Register of Historic Places listings in ...
In 1792 the Connecticut legislature set aside 500,000 acres (2,000 km 2), at the western end of the "Western Reserve" for the Connecticut "Sufferers".The area consisted of nearly all of the present-day Huron and Erie counties, as well as Danbury Township (Marblehead Peninsula) and much of Catawba Island Township now in Ottawa County; and Ruggles Township now in Ashland County.