While much of Windsor sits quiet and empty today, it was once a bustling little town with a lively history often overlooked.

The diner is one of the 600 or so still standing today. This is quite a feat, when you consider that there were previously over 6,000 of these diners across the United States.

By 2000, toxic sulfurous gas clouds were constantly hovering over the village, and acid rain would fall due to poor pollution control.

Though the area may not seem like it today, in its early days, between 1814-1826, it rivaled Cleveland both in size and importance.

Originally opened as Farmers’ Bank of Ashtabula in 1848, the Farmers’ National Bank was the main bank of Ashtabula, Ohio.

The group’s history goes back much further, before their years of success, to when they were growing up in the Glenville section of East Cleveland, Ohio.

Otto’s Greenhouse dates back to the 1800s when the family business was first started as just a farm by Jacob H. Otto’s parents

Built in 1832, the hotel had also become part of the underground railroad, and even later a speakeasy during prohibition.

News in Painesville, Ohio in the 1940s, which included two now abandoned companies.

This large, historic factory once stood abandoned alongside the banks of the Chagrin River in Chagrin Falls.