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<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=90 BGCOLOR="#006699" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="02c285a1erlcgo.gif"> <div> <B> </B><B>Ashtabula Bicentennial Celebration</B><FONT SIZE="6" COLOR="#FFFFCC" FACE="Century Schoolbook" ><B> </B></FONT><FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#FFFFCC" FACE="Arial" ><B>    </B></FONT><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#FFFFCC" FACE="Century Schoolbook" ><B>    </B><A HREF="Home.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ashtabula Bicentennial Celebration"><U><B>Home</B></U></A></FONT></div> <bR> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=200 BGCOLOR="#FFCC66" TEXT="#080000" background="02ad4c00dkelyh.gif"> <div> <IMG SRC="1b0ba780.jpg" border=0 width="186" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </td> <td valign="top" height=390 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <I>Logo</I></div> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="564" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 925 WIDTH="558"><div> <B>    The  Ashtabula  Bicentennial  Clebration  Logo  was a</B></div> <div> <B>colaboration of the Ashtabula Bicentennial Celebration</B></div> <div> <B>Committee.</B></div> <div> <B>    After  much discussion, it was decided the logo should</B></div> <div> <B>reflect  Ashtabula  City-Township  and  the surrounding </B></div> <div> <B>townships which were all a part of a single  township at</B></div> <div> <B>one time.  The  log  cabin  at  the center  of the logo is the </B></div> <div> <B>Blakeslee  Log  Cabin  on  Seven Hills road  in Plymouth</B></div> <div> <B>Township  which  was  part  of  the  original township at</B></div> <div> <B>one time.</B></div> <div> <B>     The log cabin was built in 1810 by the John Blakeslee</B></div> <div> <B>flamily on their land which  comprised  of  840  acres  at</B></div> <div> <B>the time.  The  Blakeslee  Log  Cabin  is  the  oldest  such home in its original  form  in  the  Western  Reserve.  The</B></div> <div> <B>log cabin represents the early settlers and  their  way of</B></div> <div> <B>life.  Today,   the  log  cabin  is  owned  by  the  Ashtabula County Historical Society and was added to the Nation-</B></div> <div> <B>al Register of Historical Places  in  1998.  Jim  Stevenson</B></div> <div> <B>is the curator for the Blakeslee Log Cabin and has invit-</B></div> <div> <B>ed the Ashtabula  Bicentennial  Committee to hold some</B></div> <div> <B>of its meeting at the cabin this summer.</B></div> <div> <B>      The  Ashtabula  Lift  Bridge  opened Dec.7, 1925. It re-</B></div> <div> <B>placed the old swing bridge which was condemned after</B></div> <div> <B>only  35  years  of   service.   The  lift   bridge  or  "bascule bridge" is the only bridge of its type left in Ohio. </B></div> <div> <B>       The   Twentieth   Century  Limited's  locomotive,  the Commodore was the pride of the New York Central Rail-</B></div> <div> <B>road.  It  was  a  new  streamlined stainless steel locomo-</B></div> <div> <B>tive that was  designed  by  former  Ashtabulan,  Carl   F. Kantola. The Twentieth Century Limited was a series of</B></div> <div> <B>luxury, high speed passenger trains.  On its maiden trip</B></div> <div> <B>in June of 1938,  Wlliam  O.  Glass  of  Ashtabula  was the </B></div> <div> <B>locomotive's engineer. A. M. Childs of  Kingsville Town-</B></div> <div> <B>ship was in charge of the new style firing equipment on</B></div> <div> <B>the locomotive. The Commodore maintained speeds be-</B></div> <div> <B>tween 60 and 80 miles an hour to stay  on  schedule.  On </B></div> <div> <B>its test run,  the  locomotive  reached  speeds  up  to 108 miles  an  hour.  More  Ashtabulans  would  work on the train, but would not be on the trains maiden trip. </B></div> <div> <B>   The railroad has been an important part of Ashtabula</B></div> <div> <B>history for almost a 150 years. It seemed only fitting</B></div> <div> <B>that a locomotive be included in our logo. </B></div> <div> <B>      </B></div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>