Pleasant Street SchoolSchool stories. Ashland history. Things worth keeping.

The collection

Ashland history

The town around the school—and town stories with no school connection at all.

Follow the story beyond the school.

Railway connections, neighborhood objects, local celebrations and everyday accounts all belong in a town’s history. Some intersect with Pleasant Street. Others deserve their own story. This part of the site has room for both.

A town of connected stories.

Undated historical postcard showing Pleasant Street School in Ashland, Ohio.

School history

Reading a School Postcard

Turn a familiar view over, and a building becomes a lesson in reading evidence.

Color postcard captioned Sandusky Street, Ashland, Ohio, showing an ornate house at left and a red brick church at right.

Discoveries

A Christmas postcard to “Dear Teacher”

“Arrived here safe and am having a good time.” In December 1907, Lela Clarke sent a Christmas greeting and a view of Sandusky Street to her teacher in Michigan.

Historical photograph of Pleasant Street School, with brick walls and tall windows, published in 1915.

School history

A school proud of its people

In 1987, a statewide honor celebrated the relationships that made Pleasant Street a school.

Historical photographic postcard of floodwater around buildings and trees on West Main Street, captioned March 25, 1913.

Discoveries

Three postcards after the Ashland flood

In March 1913, floodwater filled West Main Street. Three photographic postcards preserve the flooded street and the work of clearing wreckage at Arthur Street Bridge.

Ashland history

Ashland on the move

Railways and new institutions changed a town as its schools grew. A 1915 history gives a starting point beyond the school gates.

An object can be a starting point.

The timeline has a place for Ashland memorabilia as well as school events. Dates may be exact, approximate, a range or unknown. We do not fill gaps by assigning an attractive year.

Keep looking.