Agriculture employs more than 7,400 people in Ashtabula County and utilizes 170,000 acres of land? Ashtabula County is the cradle of the plastics/polymer industry with MFG, Plasticolors, Iten Industries and Premix providing hundreds of jobs both here and throughout North America? Ashtabula County's 20 wineries produce 65 percent of the wine grapes grown in Ohio? Ashtabula County is one of only three counties in Northeast Ohio (Medina and Geauga are the others) to actually gain manufacturing jobs since 1990? The largest private employers in Orwell, Jefferson Township, Jefferson, Geneva, Harpersfield, Conneaut, Saybrook and Austinburg were not even here in 1990? The most modern paper manufacturing/conversion facility in the world is located in Saybrook Township? The most modern, technological and advanced door manufacturing plant in the world operates out of Saybrook Township? A plant that nearly closed in 1991, CW Ohio in Conneaut, produces the industry-leading Turncraft columns for housing and commercial constructions? Union Industrial Contractors in Ashtabula Township manufactured the components of Washington's Woodrow Wilson Bridge? Nordic Air in Harpersfield has grown from a couple dozen employees to more than 150 in the past three years? Continental Structural Plastics in Conneaut has added more than 140 employees since January of 2007? Cristal's Millenium Chemical plants in Ashtabula Township are the most productive and largest producers of titanium dioxide in North America? The St. Joseph Medical Center in Andover houses one of the nation's premier programs for the obese and is featured regularly on the Discovery Channel? Ashtabula County's agricultural industry generates contributes nearly $576 million each year to the area economy? Ashtabula County is home to the longest covered bridge in the state? There are 70 dairy farms in Ashtabula County, milking 6,600 cows and producing a total of more than 14.5 million gallons of milk? The covered bridge in Mechanicsville was built in 1867, making it the oldest in the state? That 99.3 percent of farms in Ashtabula County are family owned? Lake Erie is 241 miles long, 57 miles wide at its widest point and 28 miles wide at its narrowest point? Travelers visiting Ashtabula County spent $295 million annually? The tourism industry in Ashtabula County provides 5,600 jobs with an annual payroll of $88.4 million? Those in the industry pay $16.1 million in state taxes and $7.2 million in local taxes. From 2004 to 2005, the tourism business in Ashtabula County increased by 7.1 percent while the entire state increased by only 4 percent?

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