The Henry Chapman Mercer Museum is a model for the Buckeye Agricultural Museum and Education Center. In August 2016, he Friends of Wayne County Fair took a trip to Doylestown, PA to see the museum for inspiration.
United States. Land Grant Act of 1862; Morrill, Justin S. (Justin Smith), 1810-1898; United States. Congress--History--19th century
Description
Image of Justin Smith Morrill, a Vermont Senator who supported the Land-Grant Agricultural and Mechanical College Act of 1862, also known as the Morrill Act, which established land-grant colleges.
A welcome sign on the Ramseyer potato farm, open to the public in autumn. One of the Sugar Creek Partners, Arden Ramseyer mentioned the importance of family and community-engagement, values which are clear through his business and are common to the Partners.
Levi Cox’s grave in the Wooster Cemetery, where he was buried in 1862. His large gravestone is a testament to his legacy left as a rich, elite member of the Wooster community.
Each year, the Friends of Wayne County Fair holds a barbecue to bring the community together and raise money for the museum. Notice the different vendors, all of which will help with funds.
United States--Census, 1920; Census; Agriculture--United States--Maps
Description
This map from the 1920 Census of Agriculture highlights the importance of agriculture in Ohio before the Great Depression, when that much of the state's land was used for agriculture.
Willford’s name on the Greene Township section of the 1823 Census of Wayne County, which shows that he lived in a rural township in the County for more than twenty years before the election. Cox is not included in the census.
A portrait of A.B. Graham taken in 1911. Many different groups geared toward rural children got their start around the same time as his, but Graham’s Boy and Girls Club is often credited as the beginning of 4-H.
Creator
Unknown
Source
“Twelve Days: 4-H Founder Helped Form Better Farmers for the Future,” From Woody’s Couch, December 13, 2013, https://library.osu.edu/blogs/archives/2013/12/13/twelve-days-4-h-founder-helped-form-better-farmers-for-the-future/.
Publisher
Unpublished
Date
1911
Contributor
Photo courtesy of “The Ohio State University Archives"
The Creston Milling Company was established in 1882. The mill was five stories high and was located on the south side of West Erie Street, extending to the Erie Railroad. The company manufactured roller-process flour and had a capacity of 175 barrels every twenty-four hours. In 1901, it was sold to Frank Brothers, and it became a cereal mill. In 1903 it burned to the ground, but the smoke stack (visible on the right) was not razed until 1917.
Date
1882-1903
Contributor
Photo Courtesy of the Wayne County Public Library
Format
PNG
Language
eng
Type
Still Image
Identifier
CrestonMill_001
Coverage
Wayne County
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Dublin Core
Title
Farm Children 1898
Subject
Farms--Ohio; Children; Corn; Agriculture--Ohio
Description
Posed 1898’s photo of farm children, most likely children of employees at the Ohio Agriculture Experiment Station, where this photo was taken.
Ohio--Politics and government--1787-1865; Local government; Ohio--History--1787-1865
Description
Table from the Ohio Senate Journal’s examination of the controversial election after Cox questioned the close results. It shows vote tallies for Cox, Willford, and Taggart in each of the twenty townships in the senatorial district.
Ohio’s controversial motto “With God All Things Are Possible,” a quote from the New Testament, was established in 1959 and survived a federal constitutional challenge in 2001. It remains a symbol of the Christian Church’s influence on the Ohio government that has continued since 1803.
Ohio--Politics and government--1787-1865; Constitutions--United States--States; Church and state; Ohio--History--1787-1865
Description
Excerpt from the Ohio Constitution, Article VIII, Section 3, providing for religious freedom in Ohio, but insinuating that all Ohioans should have religion and should worship the “Almighty God.”
Sec 3. That all men have a natural and indefeasible right to worship Almighty God according to the dictates of conscience; that no human authority can, in any case whatever, control or interfere with the rights of conscience; that no man shall be compelled to attend, erect or support any place of worship, or to maintain any ministry, against his consent, and that no preference shall ever be given, by law, to any religious society or mode of worship, and no religious test shall be required as a qualification to any office of trust or profit. But religion, morality and knowledge being essentially necessary to good government and the happiness of mankind, schools and the means of instructions shall forever be encouraged by legislative provision not inconsistent with the rights of conscience.