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