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ASHTABULA 



ASHLAND, KY., a manufacturing city in 

 Boyd County, in the northeastern part of the 

 state, 140 miles east and north of Frankfort, 

 four miles south of Ironton, Ohio, and fifteen 

 miles northwest of Huntington, W. Va. It' 

 is on the Ohio River near the mouth of thr 

 Big Sandy, and on the Chesapeake & Ohio and 

 Norfolk & Western railroads. The town 

 has connection by an electric mterurban line 

 with Huntington. The area exceeds two square 

 miles. In 1910 the population was 8,688; in 

 1914 it was 9,492. 



Ashland was settled in 1854 and became a 

 city in 1870. It has a Federal building, erected 

 at a cost of $100,000; a public library, two hos- 

 pitals and attractive church and school build- 

 ings. Central Park is a natural park in the 

 center of the town, and just east is Clyffside 

 Park, a reserve of seventy-five acres maintained 

 by a private corporation, where the Tri-State 

 Chautauqua is held. 



Ashland is in a rich mineral oil and lumber 

 region and has an important river commerce in 

 manufactured articles and iron ore. The im- 

 portant industries of the city include manu- 

 factories of pig iron, coke, cut and wire nails, 

 wire rods, steel billets, sheet steel, fire brick, 

 leather, cement, furniture stock and oak and 

 poplar lumber. H.R.D. 



ASHLAND, Wis., a shipping point of im- 

 portance and the county seat of Ashland 

 County. It is situated on Chequamegon Bay, 

 on the northern coast of the state, sixty miles 

 east of Duluth, 180 miles northeast of Saint 

 Paul and 250 miles northwest of Milwaukee. 

 Besides being a lake port it is the terminus of 

 four railway lines the Chicago & North West- 

 ern; Chicago, Saint Paul, Minneapolis & 

 Omaha; Minneapolis, Saint Paul & Sault 

 Sainte Marie and Northern Pacific. In 1914 

 the population was estimated at 11,594. The 

 area comprises eleven and one-half square 

 miles. 



Ashland has one of the best harbors on Lake 

 Superior, and the immense ore-docks here were 

 built to accommodate the large shipments of 

 hematite ore from the Gogebic Iron Range. 

 The city has large interests in lumber and 

 brown stone and extensive dairying and fruit- 

 growing industries. Besides these, there are 

 lumber nulls, j ,lp mills, large steel works, 

 charcoal blast furnaces for the manufacture of 

 pig iron, and the machine shops of the Chicago 

 & North Western Railway. For advanced 

 study there are Northern College, Sacred Heart 

 Convent and North Wisconsin Academy. The 



city has the Vaughn Public Library. The 

 United States government building and post 

 office and the Rhinehart and the Sisters' hos- 

 pitals are worthy of note. Apostle Islands, a 

 group of twenty-seven islands in Chequamegon 

 Bay, are of scenic and historical interest. 



The first settlement was made in 1854; it 

 was incorporated in 1863, was chartered as a 

 city in 1887 and since 1913 has been under the 

 commission form of government. The growth 

 of the city began with the development of the 

 Gogebic mines in 1885. 



ASHTABU'LA, OHIO, an important shipping 

 point, especially for coal and iron. It is sit- 

 uated in Ashtabula County, in the northeast, 

 on Lake Erie, at the point where the Ashta- 

 bula River discharges into it. Cleveland is 

 fifty-four miles southwest, and Buffalo is 129 

 miles northeast. Through the service of the 

 New York Central Lines, the Pennsylvania 

 and the New York, Chicago & Saint Louis 

 railroads and the excellent harbor, Ashtabula 

 has become a leading transfer shipping point. 

 Electric lines extend from Ashtabula to cities 

 east, south and west. Finns, Swedes and Ital- 

 ians comprise thirty per cent of the population, 

 which increased from 18,266 in 1910 to 20,478 

 in 1914. The area is five and one-half square 

 miles. 



Ashtabula is the center of a large agricultural 

 and dairying region; it is famous in its terri- 

 tory for its large greenhouses, where vegetables 

 are raised under glass in winter in sufficient 

 quantities to supply the larger cities. More 

 iron ore is received here annually than at any 

 other port in the United States (probably in 

 the world), and is reshipped to Pittsburgh, 

 Youngstown and other manufacturing cities. 

 The course of the river has been improved by 

 the city, thereby increasing the facilities for 

 commerce and manufacture. Ashtabula has a 

 large dry dock, an extensive ship-building 

 plant, car-repair shops, tanneries and manu- 

 factories of farm implements and garden tools. 

 It has a Federal building and a Carnegie Li- 

 brary. The park reservations cover 200 acres 

 and extend along the lake shore and river bank. 



The first settlement was made in 1804. The 

 town, which included Kingsville, Sheffield and 

 Plymouth, was organized in 1808; later, these 

 three villages were incorporated separately. 

 Ashtabula became a city in 1892, and in 1916 

 the commission form of government was 

 adopted. A railroad accident on the bridge 

 over the river in 1876, yet remembered 

 throughout the country as the "Ashtabula dis- 



