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JEWISH AND
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Aerial view of the port
at Ashtabula, Ohio, USA. The city is a major port for loading coal from
trains onto ships. View is to the northeast over Lake Erie. Author: Ken
Winters, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, October 28, 1992
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Ashtabula, Ohio
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ashtabula (pronounced
/æʃtəˈbjuːlə/
ash-tə-bew-lə)
is a
city in
Ashtabula County,
Ohio,
United States, and the center of the Ashtabula
Micropolitan Statistical Area (as defined by the
United States Census Bureau in 2003). A major location on
the
Underground Railroad in the middle 19th century, the city
today is a major
coal
port on
Lake Erie at the mouth of the
Ashtabula River northeast of
Cleveland. The name Ashtabula means "river of many fish" in
the
Iroquois language. As of the
2000 census, the city had a total
population of 20,962.Poet
Carl Sandburg wrote a
poem titled "Crossing Ohio when Poppies Bloom in Ashtabula."
There is also a novel called The King from Ashtabula by
Vern Sneider, published in 1960. The city is also mentioned in
the Bob Dylan song "You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go".
Ashtabula hosts an annual Blessing of the
Fleet Celebration, usually in late May or early June. As part of
the celebration, a procession and prayer service is held at
Ashtabula Harbor. Ashtabula was also home of the
FinnFestUSA in 2007.
History
Ashtabula was founded in 1803 and
incorporated in 1891. The city contains several former
stops on the Underground Railroad which was used to convey
African-American
slaves to freedom in
Canada in the years before the
American Civil War. Among the stops is Hubbard House, one of
the handful of termination points. Ex-slaves would reside in a
basement of the house adjacent to the lake and then leave on the
next safe boat to Canada, gaining their freedom once they
arrived in
Ontario. Its harbor has been a large ore and coal port since
the end of the 19th century and continues to be to some extent
with a long coal ramp draping across the horizon in the current
harbor and the ore shipments unloaded from lakers that is sent
down to the steel mills of Pennsylvania.
Many newcomers to Ashtabula in the late
19th century and early 20th century were immigrants from
Finland,
Sweden, and
Italy.
Ethnic rivalries among these groups were once a major influence
on daily life in Ashtabula. A substantial percentage of the
current residents are descended from those immigrants. The
population in the City of Ashtabula grew steadily until 1970,
since when it has been declining just as steadily.
Rail history
On December 29, 1876, one of the nation's
most notorious rail accidents occurred, known as the
Ashtabula Horror, and the
Ashtabula River Railroad bridge disaster, Ashtabula, Ohio,
United States. As
Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway Train No. 5, The
Pacific Express, crossed the Ashtabula River bridge, the
Howe truss structure collapsed, dropping the second locomotive
of two and 11 passenger cars into the frozen creek 150 feet
(46 m) below. A fire was started by the car stoves, and of the
159 people on board, 64 were injured and 92 killed.
Port
The 1900s saw great changes in Ashtabula.
Its access to
Lake Erie and nearly 30 miles (48 km) of shoreline helped
position Ashtabula as a major shipping and commercial center.
During the 1950s, the area experienced
growth with its expanding chemical industry and increasing
harbor activity, making Ashtabula one of the most important port
cities of the
Great Lakes. Historical industries in the area included a
Rockwell International plant on
Route 20 on the western side of Ashtabula that manufactured
brakes for the
Space Shuttle program and the extrusion of depleted and
enriched uranium at the Reactive Metals Extrusion plant on East
21st Street, prompting the
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to, as recently
as 1990 (the year the plant ceased operations), place Ashtabula
on its list of expected primary nuclear targets for the Soviet
Union.
Ashtabula Harbor hosts an annual Blessing
of the Fleet community festival. The origin of the Blessing of
the Fleet can be traced to Portuguese and Irish fisherman and
tugmen who settled in Ashtabula. Sometime in the 1930s, the
Blessing of the Fleet was a small, almost private affair in
early April conducted by a few tugmen, their parish priest, and
an acolyte. By 1950, it had become a public ceremony under the
auspices of Mother of Sorrows parish. In 1974, the Blessing of
the Fleet became a community affair involving all of Ashtabula's
religious and harbor community. Today the Blessing is held
annually, usually in late May. The Coast Guard Station and the
Harbor Museum and other sites have been established to preserve
Ashtabula's maritime heritage.
Geography
Ashtabula is located at
41°52′38″N
80°47′49″W
/ 41.87722°N
80.79694°W /
41.87722; -80.79694
(41.877138, -80.796976)[3].
According to the
United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of
7.7 square miles (19.9 km2), of which 7.6 square
miles (19.7 km2) is land and 0.2 square miles (0.5 km2)
(2.20%) is water.
Ashtabula borders
Lake Erie to the north and has a prominent harbor where the
Ashtabula River flows into the lake. The Ashtabula Harbor
was a primary coal harbor and still serves to ship . It has two
public beaches: Walnut Beach, near the harbor, and Lake Shore
Park, originally a
Public Works Administration project, on the opposite side of
the harbor.
The Ashtabula River and harbor are a
significant
superfund site due to past industrial abuse of the waterway.
Part of the city lies in Ashtabula
Township, and part lies in Saybrook Township.
The Ashtabula area receives a considerable
amount of snow throughout the winter with the average snowfall
being 68 inches. Much of the snow comes from
lake-effect snow bands.
Demographics
As of the
census of 2000, there were 20,962 people, 8,435 households,
and 5,423 families residing in the city. The
population density was 2,775.9 people per square mile
(1,072.0/km²). There were 9,151 housing units at an average
density of 1,211.8 per square mile (468.0/km²). The racial
makeup of the city was 84.69%
White, 9.79%
African American, 0.29%
Native American, 0.40%
Asian, 0.05%
Pacific Islander, 2.51% from
other races, and 2.26% from two or more races.
Hispanic or
Latino of any race were 5.32% of the population. 16.5% were
of
Italian, 14.6%
German, 9.2%
American, 8.1%
Irish and 8.1%
English ancestry according to
Census 2000. 93.1% spoke
English and 5.4%
Spanish as their first language.
There were 8,435 households out of which
32.6% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 41.9%
were
married couples living together, 17.4% had a female
householder with no husband present, and 35.7% were
non-families. 30.6% of all households were made up of
individuals and 13.3% had someone living alone who was 65 years
of age or older. The average household size was 2.45 and the
average family size was 3.03.
In the city the population was spread out
with 27.6% under the age of 18, 8.8% from 18 to 24, 28.1% from
25 to 44, 20.5% from 45 to 64, and 15.0% who were 65 years of
age or older. The median age was 35 years. For every 100 females
there were 88.1 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over,
there were 83.3 males.
The median income for a household in the
city was $27,354, and the median income for a family was
$33,454. Males had a median income of $28,436 versus $22,490 for
females. The
per capita income for the city was $14,034. About 17.8% of
families and 21.4% of the population were below the
poverty line, including 31.2% of those under age 18 and
13.6% of those age 65 or over. Shopping Centers Ashtabula Towne
Square
Education
The Ashtabula Area City School
District serves Ashtabula (its high school,
Lakeside High School, is located outside of the
city).
Kent State University at Ashtabula is also located
in Ashtabula.
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