Map of Maumee, Ohio (present day Toledo)
- Title:
- Map of Maumee, Ohio (present day Toledo)
- Collection:
- 19th Century Prison Reform Collection
- Date:
- 1807-1868
- ID Number:
- RMM01157_B01_F17_039_01
- Collection Number:
- 1157
- File Name:
- RMM01157_B01_F17_039_01.jpg
- Work Type:
- documents
- Description:
- This map of Maumee, Ohio (present day Toledo) belonged to former Governor Enos T Throop, though neither artist nor purpose can be determined with any certainty. However, the grid suggests it's use for the planning and sale of land. Two multi-storied structures appear to be marked at the Swan Creek and Maumee river junction, approximately the location of the Central Station which was on Superior street between Washington and Monroe. Significantly, the Central Station was also a four-story building, 60 by 100 feet. The city prison was located on the first floor along with the rooms for the turnkey, lodger, engine, and the sick or injured. There was also a padded cell on this floor where the "insane" and intoxicated were confined. This room prevented them from self-harm and was thus particularly impressive to officers from abroad. From the letters included in the report of Gershom Powers, we know that Ohio prison reformers were also very interested in the Auburn System which they eventually incorporated into their own newly constructed penitentiaries. Much of these connections remain on the level of conjecture, but they may illuminate some of the lost secrets about how the Auburn System spread across the Northeast in the first part of the 19th Century.
- Cite As:
- Enos Thompson Throop. Papers, #1157. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
- Repository:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
- Archival Collection:
- Enos Thompson Throop Papers
- Box:
- 1
- Folder:
- 17
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
- The content in the 19th Century Prison Reform Collection is believed to be in the public domain by virtue of its age, and is presented by Cornell University Library under the Guidelines for Using Text, Images, Audio, and Video from Cornell University Library Collections [http://hdl.handle.net/1813.001/CULCopyright]. This collection was digitized by Cornell University Library in 2017 from print materials held in the Rare and Manuscript Collections, with funding from a Digital Collections in Arts and Sciences Grant to Katherine Thorsteinson. For more information about these volumes, please contact the Rare and Manuscript Collections at rareref@cornell.edu. Responsibility for making an independent legal assessment of an item and securing any necessary permissions ultimately rests with persons desiring to use the item.