Ohio Transportation Trail Resources

Ohio Transportation
Trail Resources

Ohio History Center, Columbus, Ohio

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Air

• Books
  • The Wright Brothers – David McCullough
  • Keep Your Airspeed Up: The Story of a Tuskegee Airman – Harold H. Brown and Marsha Bordner
• Study Guides & Activities
  • Dayton Aviation Area Curriculum Materials | Dayton Aviation Area 
  • Floating of Air: Teacher’s Guide | PBS Western Reserve
  • Ohio’s Aviation Heritage: Teacher Resource Guide | National Museum of the U.S. Air Force
• Videos
  • Aviation Adventures | PBS 
  • The Wright Brothers, First Successful Airplane | Simple History
• Other Trails
  • National Aviation Heritage Area: Aviation Trail
  • Ohio Air & Space Trail
  • Ohio Innovation Trail

Air

• Books
  • The Wright Brothers – David McCullough
  • Keep Your Airspeed Up: The Story of a Tuskegee Airman – Harold H. Brown and Marsha Bordner
• Study Guides & Activities
  • Dayton Aviation Area Curriculum Materials | Dayton Aviation Area 
  • Floating of Air: Teacher’s Guide | PBS Western Reserve
  • Ohio’s Aviation Heritage: Teacher Resource Guide | National Museum of the U.S. Air Force
• Videos
  • Aviation Adventures | PBS 
  • The Wright Brothers, First Successful Airplane | Simple History
• Other Trails
  • National Aviation Heritage Area: Aviation Trail
  • Ohio Air & Space Trail
  • Ohio Innovation Trail

Air

• Books
  • The Wright Brothers – David McCullough
  • Keep Your Airspeed Up: The Story of a Tuskegee Airman – Harold H. Brown and Marsha Bordner
• Study Guides & Activities
  • Dayton Aviation Area Curriculum Materials | Dayton Aviation Area 
  • Floating of Air: Teacher’s Guide | PBS Western Reserve
  • Ohio’s Aviation Heritage: Teacher Resource Guide | National Museum of the U.S. Air Force
• Videos
  • Aviation Adventures | PBS 
  • The Wright Brothers, First Successful Airplane | Simple History
• Other Trails
  • National Aviation Heritage Area: Aviation Trail
  • Ohio Air & Space Trail
  • Ohio Innovation Trail

Road

• Books
  • A Traveler’s Guide to the Historic National Road in Ohio – Glenn Harper and Doug Smith
  • More Than Automobiles: The Packard’s of Warren Ohio – A.J. Balfour
• Study Guides & Activities
  • Exploring Our Heritage: The Ohio National Road | PBS/Think TV 
  • The Automobile | Ohio State University
  • Canal Versus National Road | Ohio State University
• Videos
  • Our History in the Automotive Industry | Know Ohio
  • When Cleveland was King of the Auto Industry | The Cleveland Storyteller
  • Shelby’s Bicycle History | History Made in Shelby, Ohio
  • How the Soap Box Derby Came to Be | Know Ohio
  • Exploring the Historic National Road Scenic Byway | ODOT 
• Other Trails
  • Ohio Innovation Trail
  • Ohio’s Byways

Rail

• Books
  • The Ohio Railroad Guide – Arcadia Publishing
  • The Pioneer Route and Electric Railways of Northeast Ohio – Craig Sanders
• Study Guides & Activities
  • Commerce on the Railroad Program | B&O Railroad Museum
• Videos
  • Riding Through History: The Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad | Railroad Street 
  • Secrets of Marion Ohio’s Railroad Past Revealed! | WOSU Public Media
  • Exploring Ohio’s Interurban Era: The Columbus, Delaware, and Marion Interurban Line in 1932 | WOSU Media 
  • A Short History of the Cincinnati, Hamilton, & Dayton Railroad | Cincinnati Railroad Club
• Other Trails
  • Great American Rail-Trail
  • Northwestern Ohio Rails-to-Trails Association

Water

• Books
  
  • Innovation Nation: The Ohio River Watershed and the Making of America – Edited by Paul Tenkotte & Debra Meyers 
  • Shipwrecks of Lake Erie: Tragedy in the Quadrangle – David Frew
  • Ohio’s Grand Canal: A Brief History of the Ohio & Erie Canal – Terry Woods
• Study Guides & Activities
  • The Ohio & Erie Canal: Catalyst of Economic Development for Ohio | National Park Service Lesson Plan 
  • Cardboard Boat Race Challenge: Teacher Resource Package | Saskatoon Industry Education Council
  • Canal Versus National Road | Ohio State University
• Videos
  
  • Working River | University of Pittsburgh
  • All About Lake Erie | Know Ohio 
  • Ohio & Erie Canal | PBS
  • A Canal for the West: The Miami & Erie Canal | Centerville-Washington History
• Other Trails
  • Lake Erie Coastal Ohio Scenic Byway, An America’s Byway
  • Ohio & Erie Canalway National Heritage Area
  • Ohio River Way
  • Ohio River Byway, An America’s Byway
  • Lake Erie to Ohio River Trail

Multiple Modes

• Study Guides & Activities
  • Cincinnati in Motion | Cincinnati Museum Center
  • Transportation, Civil War, and Urban Growth | Columbus Neighborhoods 
  • The Progression of Transportation in Ohio and the West | Ohio State University