Lost in the Midwest: Ohio

Just across the Indiana /Ohio boarder is Ohio City, Ohio. As of the census of 2000, there were 784 people residing in the village. In 1910, Ohio City was a very prosperous town. It had three churches, one union school, two dry goods stores, two hardware stores, one clothing store, two millinery establishments, three hotels, three restaurants, one bakery, four saloons, two shoe shops, one tailor shop, one silversmith shop, one slack barrel factory, one lumber yard, two blacksmith shops, two elevators, one tile factory, one lumberyard, two blacksmith shops, one beet dump, two sawmills, one harness shop, one ice-making house, and three railroads all using the centrally located Union Depot. John William Lambert made his first gas-powered car in Ohio City in 1891. Later that summer, Ohio City became the scene of the first automobile accident in the United States, when Lambert's car struck a tree stump in the road and bounced into a hitching rack. (click on image to enlarge)