07/30/2026
A new set of quality tires might have prevented this accident. So next time you're out in your Model T stop by for a free tire inspection.
Washington County's 1st Fatal Accident
Ida Corner, who married Dr. George Hutchinson in 1894, would grab her camera 📷 and accompany her husband on house calls quite frequently. In doing so Ida captured images of small town activities throughout Washington County. The "first Washington County Children's Home, railroad depots, mills, rivers, floods, gravestones, frozen falls, natural rock formations, decaying log cabins, and large Victorian homes were all captured on glass plates and printed by Ida [(Corner Hutchinson)], many on postcards.
Washington County's first fatal automobile accident, as seen here, is one of the countless events she captured. "On the night of May 14, 1911, Newport Pike was the scene of a fatal automobile accident. A photograph of the wreckage of the two-seated Oberlin, a valuable car from the Marietta Motor Car Company, was captured by Ida Hutchinson at daylight the next morning."
Source: The Tallow Light, Vol. 47, Number 3, 2016