Ash'tabu'la, O., an important railway and shipping center on Lake Erie, 55 miles east of Cleveland and about midway between the latter and Erie, Pa. It possesses a good harbor, and has a large trade in the shipping of coal and iron ore from the mines of both Ohio and Pennsylvania. It is a station on the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railroad, and has railroad connections besides with the New York, Chicago and St. Louis and with the Pittsburg, Youngstown and Ashtabula division of the Pennsylvania Lines. It is becoming an important manufacturing center. The town has some fine public buildings, and has electric railroads and other modern equipments. Population, 18,266.