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This page is intended to give Ohio Memory participants an idea of what geographical and subject areas are not represented well thus far. The content of this page will be updated regularly as new submissions are received.

Recent messages from the Ohio Memory Listserv concerning underrepresented areas:

Counties not represented:

 
  • Adams
  • Belmont
  • Brown
  • Carroll
  • Clermont
  • Delaware
  • Fairfield
  • Gallia
  • Guernsey
  • Hardin
  • Hocking
  • Jefferson
  • Meigs
  • Mercer
  • Morgan
  • Morrow
  • Paulding
  • Perry
  • Preble
  • Putnam
  • Union
  • Warren
  • Wyandot

  • Subject Categories Underrepresented:
    View a chart that shows what subject categories are currently underrepresented.
    • Native American Ohioans
    • Military Ohio, except Civil War
    • Civil Liberties- abolition, temperance, suffrage
    • Immigration and Ethnic Heritage
    • African American Ohioans
    • Presidents and Politics
    • Science and Technology - Ohio inventors and inventions
    • Ohio Sports
    • Geography and Natural Resources - buildings, maps, mining
    • Climate and Weather- tornadoes, floods, blizzards, droughts

    Specific Subjects Underrepresented:
    • Abolition
    • African Americans in Ross Co. (Ross Co. had the largest concentration of African Americans in the Old Northwest)
    • Amish communities
    • Battle of Fallen Timbers
    • Battle of Lake Erie
    • Battle of Piqua
    • Canals
    • Cleveland's Millionaire's Row
    • Clay industry in Zanesville and East Liverpool
    • Communal societies other than the Shakers and the Zoarites
    • Cuyahoga River
    • Early Settlement and Statehood Movement
    • Firelands
    • Grand Lake St. Mary's
    • Lake Erie- shipping and shipbuilding
    • Maumee River
    • National Road
    • Natural history- fossils of mastodon, mammoths, etc.
    • Northeast Ohio rubber industry- Firestone and Goodyear
    • Northeast Ohio steel industry
    • Northwest Ohio glass industry
    • Northwest Ohio oil and gas booms
    • Shipbuilding in Cincinnati and Marietta
    • Underground Railroad
    • Welsh immigrants in southern Ohio
    • Western Reserve
    • Women in the Civil War
    • Women's Movement- Sojourner Truth and 1850 Salem Convention
    • Zoar (Joseph Bimeler)
    People:
     
     
  • Ohio Presidents
  • Civil War Generals
  • Johnny Appleseed
  • Mother Bickerdyke
  • Blue Jacket
  • Sala Bosworth
  • Salmon P. Chase
  • Moses Cleaveland
  • Jacob S. Coxey
  • George Armstrong Custer
  • Charles Dawes
  • Thomas Edison
  • Simon Girty
  • Zane Grey
  • Marcus Hanna
  • William Dean Howells
  • Samuel "Golden Rule" Jones of Toledo
  • Jared Kirtland
  • Little Turtle
  • Simon Kenton
  • Duncan McArthur
  • Return Jonathan Meigs
  • Rufus Putnam
  • John D. Rockefeller
  • John Sherman
  • Lily Martin Spencer
  • Edward Tiffin
  • Thomas Worthington
  • Clement Vallandigham
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