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It is positioned at the mouth of the Ashtabula River on Lake Erie, one of the Great Lakes, athwart from the province of Ontario, Canada.
The name Ashtabula is derived from ashtepih le, which means 'always enough fish to be shared around' in the Lenape language.
Beginning in the late 19th century, the town/city became a primary coal port on Lake Erie at the mouth of the Ashtabula River northeast of Cleveland.
Ashtabula hosts an annual Blessing of the Fleet Celebration, usually in late May or early June.
As part of the celebration, a theological procession and prayer service is held at Ashtabula Harbor.
10 Gallery of Ashtabula After the American Revolutionary War, the United States mounted the Northwest Indian War to push Native American citizens s out of what it then called the Northwest - the region of the Midwest south of the Great Lakes and west of the Appalachian Mountains.
The site of Ashtabula was settled by such European Americans beginning in 1803.
The town/city was incorporated in 1891. Located directly on Lake Erie and advanced as a port for trade, the town/city contained a several stops on the Underground Railroad.
Among the Underground Railroad sites in Ashtabula is Hubbard House, one of the handful of former surviving termination points.
The city's harbor has been meaningful as a large ore and coal port since the end of the 19th century, and integral to the steel manufacturing that was advanced around the Great Lakes.
Many European immigrants, especially from Finland, Sweden, and Italy, were thriving to the industrialized jobs in Ashtabula in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, as they could learn and accomplish tasks without having a great command of English.
Ethnic rivalries among these groups were once a primary influence on politics and daily life in Ashtabula.
These factors contributed to Ashtabula in 1915 being the first town/city in Ohio to adopt an election fitness based on proportional representation (PR) and single transfer voting (STV), which was believed to enable better representational government.
The populace in the City of Ashtabula interval steadily until 1970, but has declined in recent years due to industrialized revamping and loss of jobs.
Construction of barns s connected Ashtabula to a nationwide network that contributed to its success as a port.
On December 29, 1876, one of the nation's most notorious rail accidents occurred, known as the Ashtabula River Railroad Disaster, Ashtabula Horror, or Ashtabula bridge disaster.
5, The Pacific Express, crossed the Ashtabula River bridge, the Howe truss structure collapsed, dropping the second locomotive and 11 passenger cars into the frozen creek 150 feet (46 m) below.
A rail ferry, also titled Ashtabula, used to run from Ashtabula to Port Burwell, Ontario. The ferry was launched in 1906 and directed successfully for many decades.
In the 20th century Ashtabula advanced rapidly as a primary shipping and commercial center because of its access to Lake Erie and nearly 30 miles (48 km) of shoreline.
During the 1950s, the region experienced expansion with an expanding chemical trade and increasing harbor activity, making Ashtabula one of the most meaningful port metros/cities of the Great Lakes.
Other historical industries in the region included a Rockwell International plant on Route 20 on the side of Ashtabula, which produced brakes for the Space Shuttle program, and the extrusion of depleted and enriched uranium at the Reactive Metals Extrusion plant on East 21st Street.
The Ashtabula River and harbor were designated as a momentous Superfund site by the Environmental Protection Agency in the late 20th century.
Ashtabula Harbor hosts an annual 'Blessing of the Fleet' improve festival.
This Blessing of the Fleet began as a practice of priests for Catholic Portuguese and Irish fishermen and tugmen who had settled in Ashtabula.
In 1974, the Blessing of the Fleet became a improve affair, with all of Ashtabula's theological and harbor improve participating.
The United States Coast Guard Station and the Harbor Museum help to preserve Ashtabula's maritime heritage.
Ashtabula is positioned at 41 52 38 N 80 47 49 W (41.877138, -80.796976). According to the 2010 census, the town/city has a total region of 7.91 square miles (20.5 km2), of which 7.74 square miles (20.0 km2) (or 97.85%) is territory and 0.17 square miles (0.44 km2) (or 2.15%) is water. Ashtabula is bordered by Lake Erie to the north and has a prominent harbor where the Ashtabula River flows into the lake.
The Ashtabula Harbor was a major coal harbor and still serves to ship.
Part of the town/city lies in Ashtabula Township, and part lies in Saybrook Township.
The Ashtabula region receives a considerable amount of snow throughout the winter, with the average snow flurry being 68 inches.
Coal rail cars at the Ashtabula Railway The Ashtabula Area School District serves Ashtabula (its high school is Lakeside High School).
Kent State University at Ashtabula is positioned in the city, providing a small-town ground of this institution.
As for private schools, Ashtabula or Saybrook is home to Saint John School Saint John School, a K-12 school under the Diocese of Youngstown which has incorporated Ashtabula's previous church schools and autonomous Catholic high school as one institution.
Ashtabula County Medical Center (ACMC) is a multi-specialty hospital positioned in Ashtabula County, Ohio. ACMC serves the citizens of the county and the encircling areas in northeastern Ohio.
The attached "Ashtabula Clinic" provides outpatient care in the specialties of pediatrics, internal medicine, family medicine, pulmonary, neurology, psychiatry, sleep disorders, cardiology, gastroenterology, ophthalmology, general surgery, orthopedics, urology, ENT, podiatry and oncology.
ACMC operates satellite clinics in the county of Ashtabula.
In December 2008, ACMC added the first Cardiac Catheterization Lab (commonly known as the Cath Lab) in Ashtabula County.
Ashtabula was awarded eight battle stars for World War II service, four battle stars for the Korean War, and eight battle stars for duty in the Vietnam War.
Partially scrapped in 1995, Ashtabula was expended as a target in fleet exercises on October 15, 2000.
Vern Sneider's novel, The King from Ashtabula (1960), is set in this city.
Jack Kerouac's On the Road mentions Ashtabula.
Robert (Bob) Mc - Guire's song "Moon over Parma" mentions Ashtabula (the place where the song's narrator met the girl of his affections) in its lyrics.
Ashtabula Lift Bridge Ashtabula River Railroad Disaster Ashtabula lift bridge Ashtabula Harbour Commercial District List of citizens from Ashtabula, Ohio USS Ashtabula (AO-51) "Ashtabula" in The New Encyclop dia Britannica.
"Ashtabula (Ferry), U203071, sunk by collision, 18 September 1958".
Sunk in collision with steamer BEN MORELL in harbor at Ashtabula, Ohio, September 18, 1958.
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