* 1876 – The Ashtabula River Railroad bridge disaster occurs, leaving 64 injured and 92 dead at Ashtabula, Ohio.

* December 29 – The Ashtabula River Railroad bridge disaster occurs, leaving 92 dead.

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.

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 below.

* Ashtabula lift bridge

The city is known for its ZIP code, which is 44444, and for its covered bridge, which is the second oldest in the state of Ohio and one of only two in Ohio with an integrated covered walkway ( the other being the Smolen-Gulf Covered Bridge in Ashtabula County ).

As The Pacific Express plowed through the snow and crossed a bridge over the Ashtabula River, about 100 yards ( 91 m ) from the railroad station at Ashtabula, Ohio, the passengers heard a terrible cracking sound.

The Ashtabula River Railroad Disaster ( also called the Ashtabula Horror or the Ashtabula Bridge Disaster ) was a train disaster caused by bridge failure in far northeastern Ohio on December 29, 1876, at 7: 28 p. m.

As The Pacific Express plowed through the snow and crossed a bridge over the Ashtabula River, about from the railroad station at Ashtabula, Ohio, the passengers heard a terrible cracking sound.

At that moment the Pacific Express, No. 5, bound westward over the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern railway, broke through the iron bridge that spanned the Ashtabula river on the line of the road, and suddenly plunged with a precious cargo of human life into a chasm seventy feet deep.

On such a night as this the train, composed of eleven coaches, and drawn by two heavy engines, approached the fated bridge, located about one thousand feet east of the Ashtabula station.

In 1808, the size of Geauga County was reduced by the creation of Ashtabula County and Cuyahoga County.

Genoa was settled as early as 1835 by Thomas Madison, an American Revolutionary War soldier from Ashtabula County, Ohio.

Genoa, Illinois was named after Genoa, New York by early settler Thomas Madison, an American Revolutionary War soldier from Ashtabula County, Ohio.

Sibley was created by Eddie and Edythe Hagglund beginning in 1954, when they observed the popularity of the nearby Lake Ashtabula and decided that a hamburger restaurant would be profitable.

Ashtabula was also home of the FinnFestUSA in 2007.

Ashtabula was founded in 1803 and incorporated in 1891.

The Ashtabula Harbor was a primary coal harbor and still serves to ship.

The USS Ashtabula ( AO-51 ) was commissioned in 1943 and served until 1982.

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.

At this time Ohio State Route 45 ( on the eastern border of Wellsville ) was known as the Warren-Ashtabula Turnpike which ran from Wellsville, Ohio, to Ashtabula, Ohio.

He became the prosecuting attorney of Ashtabula County by 1836, and as a member of the Whig Party, Wade was elected to the Ohio State Senate, serving two two-year terms between 1837 and 1842.

Youngstown was founded in 1796, Warren in 1798, Hudson in 1799, Ravenna also in 1799, Ashtabula in 1803, and Stow in 1804.

The plan was to build the car bodies at Molded Fibreglass Body Co., at Ashtabula, Ohio, the same company that built the fibreglass panels for the Chevrolet Corvette back in 1953.

After another district was eliminated in the round of redistricting following the 2000 Census, LaTourette's district was renumbered to the 14th district of Ohio, where he currently serves the eastern suburbs of Cleveland, northeastern Summit County, northern Trumbull County, northern Portage County, Ashtabula County, Lake County, and Geauga County.

Burrows was born in North East, Pennsylvania and moved then with his parents to Ashtabula County, Ohio.

No one was less popular in Ohio than William Vanderbilt since the December 29, 1876 collapse of Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway's Ashtabula River trestle, where 64 people had been injured and 92 were killed or died later from injuries.

However, Bradley was defeated by conservative Ashtabula County Auditor Sandra O ' Brien in the May 2006 Republican primary election.

The Ashtabula River Railroad Disaster, also called the Ashtabula Horror, was the worst train disaster in American history when it occurred in far northeastern Ohio on 29 December 1876 at 7: 28 p. m.

Twenty years later, in Ashtabula's Chestnut Grove Cemetery, a monument was erected to all those " unidentified " who perished in the Ashtabula Railroad disaster.

During the winter, Ashtabula County receives frequent lake effect snow and is part of the Southeastern Lake Erie Snowbelt.

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.

Its access to Lake Erie and nearly of shoreline helped position Ashtabula as a major shipping and commercial center.

Ashtabula borders Lake Erie to the north and has a prominent harbor where the Ashtabula River flows into the lake.

Conneaut () is a city in Ashtabula County, Ohio, United States, along Lake Erie at the mouth of Conneaut Creek, which is the number one steelhead trout stream in the country.

* Biographical history of northeastern Ohio: embracing the counties of Ashtabula, Geauga and Lake.

* Six Army Corps of Engineers impoundments ( Baldhill Dam at Lake Ashtabula, North Dakota, Tom Jenkins Dam and Burr Oak Lake, William H. Harsha Lake known as East Fork Lake, Ohio, Tionesta Lake, the Kinzua Dam, and Allegheny Reservoir, Pennsylvania )

Acquisitions along the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railway: Erie and Pittsburgh Railroad, Cleveland and Pittsburgh Railroad, Toledo, Columbus and Ohio River Railroad, and Pittsburgh, Youngstown and Ashtabula Railway gave the PRR access to the iron ore traffic on Lake Erie.

Due to the strength of FM96's signal, on some days under clear atmospheric conditions it can be heard as far west as Whitmore Lake, Michigan and Windsor, Ontario, as far south as Cleveland and Ashtabula, Ohio or as far north as Northern Ontario on a typical car radio.

One organization states that Northeast Ohio consists of 16 counties ( Ashland, Ashtabula, Carroll, Columbiana, Cuyahoga, Geauga, Lake, Lorain, Mahoning, Medina, Portage, Richland, Stark, Summit, Trumbull and Wayne counties ) and includes the cities of Cleveland, Akron, Canton, Lorain, Elyria, Medina, Ashtabula, Youngstown, and Warren.

These prices only apply to The Plain Dealers home delivery area, which are the Northeast Ohio counties of Cuyahoga, Lake, Geauga, Portage, Erie, Ottawa, Summit, Ashtabula, Medina and Lorain.

From 1992-2002 it included all of Lake County and Ashtabula County together with a collection of Eastern suburbs of Cleveland.

In August 1879 the Lake View and Collamer Railroad was sold at foreclosure sale and then operated as the Cleveland, Painesville and Ashtabula Railroad.