Ashland
Ashland names 4 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Ashland city and county-seat of Ashland co.
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
city and county-seat of Ashland co., Wis.; on Chequamegon Bay, Lake Superior and several railroads; 80 miles E. of Duluth, Minn. It has one of the finest harbors on the lake, and besides its general lake traffic, it is a shipping port for the hematite ore of the great Gogebic Iron Range. To accommodate its iron interests, it has a number of enormous ore docks. Other special interests are lumber and brown stone. It has very large charcoal blast furnaces, used for the manufacture of pig iron. Near by is the group of Apostles' Is- Northlands. The institutions include land College, the North Wisconsin Academy, hospitals, etc. Pop. (1910) 11,594; (1920) 11,334.
Ashland a city of Kentucky
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
a city of Kentucky, in Boyd co., about 146 miles S. E. of Cincinnati. It is on the Chesapeake and Ohio, and the Norfolk and Western railroads, and on the Ohio and Big Sandy rivers. An important industrial city, it has manufactures of pig iron, wire nails, steel products, leather, cement, furniture, etc. The city is notable for a handsome park in its center. Pop. (1910) 8,688; (1920) 14,729.
Ashland a borough in Schuylkill co.
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
a borough in Schuylkill co., Pa .; in the valley of the Mahanoy, and on several railroads; 12 miles N. W. of Pottsville. It is in the center of the great anthracite coal fields; has extensive mining industries shops, foundries, and factories; and contains the State Miners ' Hospital, a Na- Pop. tional bank, public hall, and several ) 6,855; (1920) churches. Pop. (1910 6,666.
Ashland town and county-seat of Ashland co.
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
town and county-seat of Ashland co., O.; on the Erie and other railroads; about 50 miles S. W. of Cleveland. It has important manufactures, large trade, a National bank, and several newspapers. Pop. (1910) 6,795; (1920) 9,249.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
When Collier's wrote in 1921, all four Ashlands ran on iron, coal and lumber. Wisconsin's Ashland shipped Gogebic Range hematite from "enormous ore docks"; the last of them, the Soo Line dock, stopped handling ore in the 1960s and its timber-and-steel superstructure was dismantled in 2013, leaving only the concrete base as a lakefront pier, and the city has shrunk from 11,334 to roughly 7,800. Ashland, Kentucky grew on steel to about 31,000 by 1960, then fell back to around 21,000 as the Armco/AK Steel works there wound down, while Ashland, Pennsylvania, once "in the center of the great anthracite coal fields," has dropped from 6,666 people to under 3,000 and now shows visitors a worked-out mine as a tourist attraction, with the Centralia mine fire burning nearby since 1962. Only Ashland, Ohio has kept growing, to roughly 20,000, anchored by Ashland University rather than by the manufactures Collier's listed.
Written for this edition, 2026.