Author: TheKnowOwl

A modern aerial map of Jefferson in Ashtabula County, Ohio, with a vintage feel. Find Chestnut Street, Giddings Park and Oakdale Cemetery, and read about Joshua Reed Giddings, the anti-slavery congressman whose law office sits on East Jefferson Street.

Find Jamestown’s streets and Seaman Park in a modern aerial map with a vintage feel. Read the story of the 1884 cyclone that left nearly one hundred families without homes.

See Independence’s streets, City Hall, and Elmwood Park in a new aerial map. Willow’s 1940 cloverleaf gives two familiar roads a place in early highway history.

Find familiar streets on a new map of Howland Center, Ohio. Howland Springs Road Southeast recalls a health spa and a hotel with a dance hall and bowling alley.

Find Hopedale’s streets and red buildings among green hills. Learn how the village helped people fleeing slavery through the Underground Railroad.

A new aerial map of Hiram in Portage County, Ohio. Find Garfield Road, Hinsdale Street and Varlotta Green, and read how Hiram College began in 1850 with James A. Garfield as one of its early leaders.

A modern aerial map of Hillsboro in Highland County, Ohio, with a vintage feel. Find Main Street, High Street and Shaffer Park, and learn about the Lincoln School and the town where cartoonist Milton Caniff was born.

In 1880 a county history called it Hilliard’s station, a stop on the railroad. This 2026 aerial map of Hilliard in Franklin County, Ohio shows Main Street, Center Street, Heritage Lakes, Hoffman Farms and more than 25,000 buildings in red.

See Hebron’s streets, parks and red building shapes in a new aerial map. Learn how the Ohio and Erie Canal and the National Road helped make the town a center for trade.

See Hayesville’s streets and green fields in a new aerial map. Explore the story of its town hall and opera house, where Buffalo Bill signed a backstage wall in 1888.

A new aerial map of Harrison in Hamilton County, Ohio, made in 2026. Find Harrison Avenue, Kilby Road, Stone Drive and Othneil Looker Park, plus the story of six old Harrison-area buildings listed on the National Register in 1975 and 1976.

A new aerial map of Greenfield in Highland County, Ohio, made in 2026. Find Jefferson Street, Greenfield Cemetery and Mitchell Park, and learn how the 1821 Smith Tannery became a stop on the Underground Railroad.

A new aerial view of Germantown in Montgomery County, Ohio. Find Market Street, Center Street and the Germantown Municipal Building, and learn about the town’s rare covered bridge on Little Twin Creek.

Georgetown, Ohio is where Ulysses S. Grant grew up. This new 2026 aerial map of the Brown County village shows Main Street, Grant Avenue, Water Street and red buildings over shaded green hills.

Find Geneva’s Main Street, Broadway streets, and parks on a new aerial map. Then meet Ransom E. Olds, born on West Main Street before his work helped shape the American car.

A modern aerial map of Garrettsville in Portage County, Ohio, made in 2026. See Main Street, Freedom Street and Tom Hardesty Park, and learn how the village was the center of Ohio’s maple industry and saw the 1935 Karpis train heist.

A new aerial map of Garfield Heights, Ohio, made in 2026. Find your street among the red homes, and learn about German Corners, the old farm crossroads at Turney Road and Granger Road.

A new aerial map of Galion in Crawford County, Ohio. Find Harding Way East, Portland Way North and Heise Park, then read how the Big Four Depot once saw 32 trains stop here each day.

A modern aerial map of Gahanna in Franklin County, Ohio, with about 20,000 buildings, Mill Street and Headley Park. Plus the story of the Big Walnut Country Club, one of the first Black country clubs in the United States, and how its land became Friendship Park.

Fredericktown, Ohio is the home of the blue FFA jacket. This new aerial map from 2026 shows North Main Street, West Sandusky Street, Stadium Drive, Forest Cemetery and more than 1,700 buildings in Knox County.

A new aerial map of Fostoria in Seneca County, Ohio, made in 2026. Find North Main Street, Sandusky Street and Fountain Cemetery, and read how natural gas made Fostoria a glass town in the 1880s.

A new aerial map of Fort Recovery in Mercer County, Ohio, made in 2026. Find Fort Site Street, Wayne Street and Blue Jacket Drive, and read how the village got its name from a fort built on the ground of St. Clair’s Defeat.

Find familiar Forest Park streets in a modern aerial map with a vintage feel. West Kemper Road holds the story of a school site used since the late 1840s, from Newell School to Forest Park High School.