Ashtabula Harbor was a sleepy Lake Erie Port until 1873, when competing railroads finally connected it to the steel mills of Pittsburgh and Youngstown, Ohio.
The Harbor had a reputation for being the toughest Port on the Great Lakes, thanks to dozens of saloons, brot.
Much of the greatness was due to immigrant labor - Finns, Italians, Irish and many others found work, home and a better life in Ashtabula.
Within two decades, it had become the Greatest Iron ore Receiving Port on the Great Lakes.
Ashtabula Harbor was a sleepy Lake Erie Port until 1873, when competing railroads finally connected it to the steel mills of Pittsburgh and Youngstown, Ohio