Nature-based shorelines can restore natural function to coastal areas.
Coastal processes, including fluctuating water levels, storm events, nearshore currents, and erosion, have shaped and maintained Lake Eries coastline for millennia. . . . — — Map (db m273178) HM
Camp Avery
1811 One-fourth mile southwest from the site on the brow of the hill overlooking the eastern bank of the Huron River, Gen. Simon Perkins, commanding the Ohio Militia, built the fortifications and block house of Camp Avery for protection . . . — — Map (db m41909) HM
Dedicated to those
who fought in
the wars of our country
1775 to 1865
Scott Cemetery
Revolutionary War
Jabez Parsons, Minute Man - Lexington, Apr. 19, 1775, and New Jersey Contl. Line • Eli Haliday, Conn. Mil. • . . . — — Map (db m262285) WM
The Sandusky Portland Cement Company, later known as the Medusa Portland Cement Company, was founded here in 1892 by Arthur, Spencer and William Newberry, sons of geologist Dr. John Strong Newberry. Portland cement was manufactured at the Bay Bridge . . . — — Map (db m41806) HM
In honor of those veterans from the Berlin
Heights area who have served and sacrificed
so faithfully. May this be an everlasting
monument to the freedom that they won. — — Map (db m262222) WM
Built by the people of Berlin Township to honor the men and women of the community who served with the armed forces during World War II.
In memoriam
Richard M. Fallon • Walter J. Fallon • Robert S. Kellar • Edwins Lykens • Myron Lovens • . . . — — Map (db m262278) WM
In honor and remembrance of those who served for God and Country
Dedicated by Sons of the American Legion Post #659 Berlin Heights, Ohio May 27, 1996 — — Map (db m262279) WM
Nearby in Edison Woods was a brick and tile kiln, a massive furnace that baked moist clay into hard bricks and drainage tile tubes.
• The kiln used clay from local Edison Woods soils, as well as local trees for fuel.
• The kiln closed when fuel . . . — — Map (db m262298) HM
Hoffman Forest MetroPark was originally purchased by Dr. & Mrs. Lowell Hoffman in 1976, who leased the property to Erie MetroParks starting in 1995. In late 2015, working with Western Reserve Land Conservancy, the land was permanently acquired by . . . — — Map (db m262203) HM
From the 1860s to about 1900, tons of quality sandstone were quarried from the high sandstone ridge that runs through Edison Woods. The deeper sandstone here occurs in unbroken beds without seams. Steam engines allowed the quarrying and shipping of . . . — — Map (db m262296) HM
The gravel was carried out of Edison Woods to the Lake Shore Electric Trolley Line on Route 61. It was used to construct a trolley line from Ceylon to Norwalk.
From the 1890s to the 1930s electric-powered interurban trains or trolleys connected . . . — — Map (db m262295) HM
Much of Edison Woods would have been under concrete if original plans for a nuclear power plant had been completed. Land was purchased in the early 1970s by Ohio Edison, but the power plant was never built. Ironically, the threat of destruction made . . . — — Map (db m262293) HM
Birminghan School was built in 1916 and served as a high school until school districts merged in 1954, and it was repurposed into an elementary school. In 1988, schools districts merged again and the Birmingham School was closed.
The Firelands . . . — — Map (db m144388) HM
Richard W. McGinnis began the momentum to establish the Lorain County Metropolitan Park District in 1956. He was of inestimable value to the Park District in its formative years when it was necessary to make important decisions and to interpret . . . — — Map (db m302243) HM
In 1936, Otto Schoepfle Jr. (1910-1992) purchased this house and eight acres of land that once belonged to his grandparents. At the time, he lived in Parma, Ohio and served as a loan officer for the Cleveland Trust Company. After spending summers . . . — — Map (db m302242) HM
A blockhouse was erected in 1811 on the northwest side of the then Flemmonds Trail. The key establishments of a church, school, post office, inn, grist mill and cemetery were founded in the first seven years. The Bank of Sandusky Bay at . . . — — Map (db m182542) HM
Capt. Wells W. Miller • Squire Abbot • Andreew Ainslie • Walter Ainslie • William Ainslie • Geo. W. Alspaugh • Jeremiah Atwater • John Austin • Charles Bailey • A. S. Baker • David S. Barber • E. W. Barber • Perer Bardshar • Hiram Barnes • John . . . — — Map (db m282472) WM
Musician • Entertainer • Banker
Born and Educated in Castalia
2002 Honors Graduate of MHS
As a frontman for the widely popular music group The CoCoBeanOs, Scott and his band were fan favorites at the Cold Creek Festival as well as . . . — — Map (db m262187) HM
In 1810 Snow's grist mill
was built near here.
Unfailing water supply brought
people from great distances
to Cold Creek mills.
Snow's family was massacred
by Indians in 1813 — — Map (db m31746) HM
The Castalia Quarry MetroPark originally operated as the Wagner Stone Company's Quarry #5, beginning in the early 1870s, as a limestone quarry. From 1870-1929, the quarried limestone was primarily used as shoreline rip-rap, in glass making, railroad . . . — — Map (db m262189) HM
About 60 leaders of Ohio hospitals gathered at the
Hotel Breakers on August 25, 1915 to form the Ohio
Hospital Association (OHA), the nation’s first state
hospital association. Established 15 years after the
American Hospital Association, the . . . — — Map (db m142165) HM
Formation of Great Lakes
As glaciers retreated north, a series of small lakes formed prior to modern Lake Erie. The northern part of the basin filled with water and modern Lake Erie was formed. All of the Great Lakes were formed in a . . . — — Map (db m302270) HM
What are invasive species?
Invasive species are plants and animals that dominate the ecosystem, are often brought here from somewhere else, and prevent native species from thriving.
European Frogbit
These (heart-shaped leaves) were . . . — — Map (db m302275) HM
What is the role of our wetland?
Provide homes to wildlife and plants.
More than 40 species of Lake Erie fish use Old Woman Creek's wetland at some point in their life cycle.
More than 300 different species of birds use Old Woman Creek's . . . — — Map (db m302277) HM
Dedicated by the community in 1976 as a bicentennial building and entered into the National Register of Historical Places by the National Park Service. Built in 1854 to be used as an elementary school and later as a town hall. — — Map (db m262301) HM
Christ Episcopal Church is Huron's oldest remaining building. Erected in 1839, it has provided a continuous heritage of preaching the Gospel and celebrating the sacraments since that time.
Christ Church has been placed on the National Register . . . — — Map (db m273176) HM
The Episcopal Society of Huron was organized in 1837, the Rev. F. M. Levenworth, pastor. The cornerstone of this building was laid on May 23, 1838; it is the oldest church building in Huron, standing near what had been the original southern limit of . . . — — Map (db m141643) HM
For over three decades, the electric interurban railways played a major part in the economic life of the
American Midwest. Their contribution was greatest
in Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, and Illinois. The
interurban railways were electrically-powered . . . — — Map (db m141539) HM
The paved trail is actually the original automobile entrance to the Cedar Point Amusement Park. Built in the early 1900's, this road was one of the first hard surface roads east of the Mississippi River. Lake Erie washed away the section of roadway . . . — — Map (db m41808) HM
Huron. • Early Indian Village and French trading post, 1749. • First white settlement in Western Reserve — Jean Baptiste Flemmond, 1790. • Surveyed 1806 by Almon Ruggles. • Site of first school in Firelands area 1810 — Alvin Coe and . . . — — Map (db m141647) HM
Recognizing the importance of Huron’s harbor, a group of Huron and Milan businessmen formed the Huron Harbor Company to make improvements to the harbor. The project was partially funded by the sale at public auction of one half of the town plat of . . . — — Map (db m142343) HM
Huron’s lighthouses have served as beacons to Great Lakes shipping since the early nineteenth century. The first of three Huron lighthouses was built in 1835. Built of wood and ill-equipped to deal with strong Lake Erie winds, it was destroyed . . . — — Map (db m142257) HM
Huron and Erie County are rich in Native American history.
During the construction of the nearby Ohio Route 2 bypass
archaeologists in 1976-77 uncovered three Native villages and
burial sites.
The Anderson site, overlooking the Old Woman . . . — — Map (db m142364) HM
John Baptiste Flemmond (1770–1827), a French
Canadian trader, was one of the earliest Euro-American settlers in what became Erie County. In
1805, he established a trading post at “Flemmond’s
Cove” on the east side of the Huron . . . — — Map (db m142178) HM
Self-Unloaders.
Business at the ore docks was strong through the 1970s. An all time record was set in 1979 when 151 boats shipped in 2,784,000 tons of ore. As higher grade iron-ore grew scarce it was replaced by lower grade taconite. It became . . . — — Map (db m142291) HM
Early Boats.
In the 1800s, schooners were the main cargo vessels of the Great Lakes, linking the growing towns of the Midwest with the East Coast. One of the largest schooners to sail the Great Lakes was built just a few miles up the Huron . . . — — Map (db m142342) HM
In 1976, the Ohio Department of Natural Resources created the Division of Natural Areas and Preserves, which administers a statewide system of nature preserves and scenic rivers.
State nature preserves are not parks. Rather, they are . . . — — Map (db m302279) HM
In 1837
Aaron Wright Meeker received 160 acres of Lots 26 and
32 from his parents Stephen and Polly
Meeker,
who originally
came to the Firelands from Vermont.
Heavily forested,
A. W. cut
the trees by hand to build a farm on what would become . . . — — Map (db m141530) HM
Old Woman Creek is one of the few naturally functioning estuary environments—places where chemically-distinct bodies of water meet and mix—left in the western basin of Lake Erie. This ecosystem features diverse habitats of marshlands, sand beaches, . . . — — Map (db m142350) HM
The history of the Firelands is linked to the American Revolutionary
War. During the British raids of 1777 and 1779 the Connecticut
towns of Danbury, East Haven, New Haven, Fairfield, Norwalk,
Greenwich, Groton, Ridgefield and New London were . . . — — Map (db m150043) HM
Ohio’s oldest continuing summer theatre, the Huron Playhouse,
has been housed at McCormick Middle School for its entire
history. Dr. Frederick G. Walsh (1915-1999) of the Bowling
Green State University (BGSU) Speech Department founded
the . . . — — Map (db m224978) HM
1906 Dock Improvements.
In the early 1900s the lake vessels were getting larger and needed more water and room to turn around when emptied. In 1906 the
Army Corps of Engineers widened Huron Harbor from 120 to 180 feet and extended the west . . . — — Map (db m142256) HM
The Huron Iron Ore and Coal Docks. In 1882 Huron, Ohio became the Wheeling and Lake Erie Railroad’s port on Lake Erie for the shipping of iron ore and coal. For the next 100 years the docks played an integral part in Huron's progress and . . . — — Map (db m150714) HM
In 1812, fearing the outbreak of war with Great Britain and her
Indian allies, many settlers left the area, and local militia companies
began constructing blockhouses as places of refuge. Victims of Indian
attacks included Michael Gibbs, Daniel . . . — — Map (db m150452) HM
The Wright House and the Underground Railroad. In the early 1800s, Jabez Wright, an early Huron County judge, purchased a large tract of lakeside land on the north side of what is now Cleveland Road. There Wright built an eight-room . . . — — Map (db m41809) HM
Dedicated to those who gave their lives in World War II.
William J. Brophy • Raymond A. Cherry • Richard W. Collins • Edward M. Cunningham • Richard D. Floyd • Valentine A. Fries, Jr. • Michael D. Holland • Irving J. Kehr • Robert G. Keller • . . . — — Map (db m141640) WM
Almon Ruggles, Surveyor of the Firelands. Almon Ruggles (1771-1840) came to Ohio from Connecticut in 1805 and led survey teams that divided the Firelands section of the Connecticut Western Reserve into townships. The Firelands was territory . . . — — Map (db m226455) HM
This was one of the first concrete roads built in Ohio. When Cedar Point opened for the 1913 season, it was the access road. The road extended one mile north to the water and six miles west along the lake's unstable sandspit, which was destroyed by . . . — — Map (db m308628) HM
You're surrounded by Lake Erie, one of the best places for sportfishing in the world! This lake is home to many species of fish that anglers love to catch.
Fishing on Lake Erie has been important to people in Ohio for centuries. Native . . . — — Map (db m306863) HM
Columbus Limestone. The rock you are standing on stretches in a narrow band running north from Pickaway County, Ohio to Canada’s Pelee Island. Known as “Columbus Limestone” due to its history of quarrying near Ohio’s capitol city, this stone . . . — — Map (db m305401) HM
Excavation
When the preserve was created, only the easternmost 35 feet of the grooves were exposed. Much of the grooves were filled with till—a mix of small and large sediments deposited directly by a glacier. On top of the till, operators . . . — — Map (db m306859) HM
Welcome to the Glacial Grooves State Memorial. This memorial, containing of three and one-half acres on Kelleys Island, has been administered by the Ohio Historical Society since 1932.
Impressive is size and shape, these glacial grooves are . . . — — Map (db m305400) HM
Between three and four hundred years ago, Ohio pre-historic Indians, believed to be of the Erie tribe, pecked numerous inscriptions or pictographs on the top surface of this large native limestone rock. The figures, now nearly obliterated by the . . . — — Map (db m305399) HM
Inscription Rock and other archaeological sites on Kelleys Island indicate that the island was home to Native Americans for many centuries. Kelleys Island was on the frontier between lands of the Ottawas and Wyandots when Europeans first arrived . . . — — Map (db m306856) HM
Dedicated to the memory of the young men and women of this community who by their patriotism and loyalty served God and Country in the wars of our nation.
Civil War: Sixty Seven, Simon Huntington Killed in Action
Spanish War: Six
World . . . — — Map (db m306850) WM
On this site once stood the Kelley Island Lime & Transport Company, which began quarry operations here in 1886 and became the largest producer of lime in the world. The industrial complex included 16 lime kilns and a rail system connecting the . . . — — Map (db m306864) HM
Quarrying
Limestone quarrying is a major industry in Ohio. Years ago, there were several quarries on Kelleys Island. The largest producer of limestone was the Kelley Island Lime & Transport Company. One of their abandoned quarries is right . . . — — Map (db m306858) HM
"Dont Give Up The Ship"
In commemoration of the Battle of Lake Erie Bicentennial, and of the Kelleys Island Tall Ship Celebration, which took place August 30th, through September 2nd, 2013.
The Battle of Lake Erie firmly established The . . . — — Map (db m306849) WM
You are standing in the remnants of the Kelleys Island Lime & Transport Co. Crusher Building. It was here that raw stone was transformed into usable pieces of limestone. This operation was innovative—consisting of just six steps.
Steam shovel . . . — — Map (db m306860) HM
Explore Kelleys Island's Limestone Past
Follow this 0.4-mile path to explore the history of limestone quarrying on Kelleys Island that shaped island history, fueled industry, and created the landscape we see today. The stone pulled from . . . — — Map (db m306854) HM
The Crusher Building
History of Mining
In 1886, local limestone mining companies united to form the Kelleys Island Lime and Transport Company (KIL&T). Their business relied on the structure that stands before you today—the Crusher . . . — — Map (db m306861) HM
The German Reformed Church was organized on Kelleys Island in
1865. The congregation built this church from island stone in 1866
on ˝ acre of land purchased from Alfred S. and Hannah Kelley. By
1871, the congregation, one of five on the island, . . . — — Map (db m241149) HM
Datus and Sara Kelley built their home here
in 1843, known as
the Island House. It was located up the hill from the
steamboat landing and
across
the street from the island store (the Lodge,
1854). In 1873, Jacob Rush bought the property and . . . — — Map (db m142019) HM
The first island railroad was built in 1854, just 500 feet long. It used gravity to move loaded cars downhill and horses to pull empty ones back up. As the island's quarrying industry grew, so did the need for better transport—enter the Shay . . . — — Map (db m311059) HM
Welcome to the Glacial Grooves Geological Preserve. This preserve, consisting of three and one-half acres on Kelleys Island, has been administered by the Ohio History Connection since 1932. The preserve is managed by the Ohio Department of . . . — — Map (db m306855) HM
Dr. Lehman Galpin, who had this house built in 1847, was the physician present at Thomas Alva Edison's birth February 11, 1847. — — Map (db m237625) HM
Edison Recalls Milan
My recollections of Milan are somewhat scanty as I left the town when I was not quite seven years old. I remember the wheat elevators on the canal, and Gay shipyard; also the launching of new boats, on which occasion the . . . — — Map (db m296794) HM
The Edison Birthplace Assoc. dedicates this "Edison Statue on
Bench” to all the "Friends of Edison to Statuary Hall” in our U.S.
Capitol in Washington, D.C. The Edison Statue, one of the two statues
representing the State of Ohio, was unveiled on . . . — — Map (db m204573) HM
Milan
Birthplace of Thomas A. Edison, February 11, 1847.
A Moravian village, Pequotting, 1804–1809.
First permanent white settlers came in 1816.
Milan village platted, 1817; incorporated February 23, 1833.
Ship’s canal to . . . — — Map (db m90656) HM
Milan was a leading Great Lakes port after the completion of the 3-mile Milan Canal in 1839. Center of activity was the Milan Basin at this site where produce was brought from area farms for shipment to lake and world ports through 14 warehouses by . . . — — Map (db m39910) HM
Dedicated
to the Soldiers of
Milan Twp.
July 4, 1867
Wilderness
Spotsylvania
Cold-Harbor
Petersburg
Cedar-Creek
Gettysburg
Lookout Mtn.
Mission Ridge
Knoxville
Cold Harbor
Atlanta
Petersburg
Franklin . . . — — Map (db m204595) WM
The last mission of the Moravians in the Valley of the Huron in the Ohio Country was at the Indian Village of Pettquottink, now Milan. — — Map (db m90658) HM
The Canal, which opened in 1839, was 3 miles in length and connected with the Huron River at the River's southern most navigatible point. Work on the Canal had begun in 1832 with construction of the tow path There were two wooden locks to allow . . . — — Map (db m262190) HM
Milan Town Square during Milan Home Coming and Normal School Reunion Celebration on August 18, 1910.
Julia Comstock Felton and sister Emma Comstock LaVayea on the porch of their home, July 4, 1910. This house was built by Dr. Leman Galpin in . . . — — Map (db m239836) HM
In the mid 1830's the Milan Canal Basin was excavated at the site of "Merry's Mill Pond" which was in a "U" shaped bend in the Huron River below the village and near this site. A new river channel, with a dam and a covered bridge, was then . . . — — Map (db m262191) HM
Has been designated a
Registered National
Historic Landmark
Under the provisions of the
historic sites act of August 21, 1935
this site possesses exceptional value
in commemorating and illustrating
the history of the United . . . — — Map (db m204574) HM
This statue was presented in 2018 as a gift to the people of the Village of Milan, Ohio from the sculptor Alan Cottrill as a token of appreciation for their collective efforts in successfully lobbying to have a statue of Thomas Edison permanently . . . — — Map (db m178362) HM
Two smaller one & one-half story houses were moved to the site, probably by oxen in Winter, then joined to form this larger house. — — Map (db m237627) HM
The Huron River Greenway trail uses the Wheeling & Lake Erie railroad track bed. The rail line was built on fill above the original Milan Canal towpath. The section of Village Creek immediately behind this sign is the last portion of the former . . . — — Map (db m262192) HM
The ridge beginning at the Edison Birthplance and descending to the Village Creek 1/4 mile north of this spot was known, even in Edison's time, as the Hogback. Shown on an 1805 Morvaian map, the street on which you are standing was an . . . — — Map (db m236716) HM
After witnessing the unsuccessful British attack against Fort McHenry on September 13 and 14, 1814, Francis Scott Key wrote "The Star Spangled Banner," which in 1931 was made the national anthem by Act of Congress. The manuscript, in Key's . . . — — Map (db m204908) HM
Dedicated in memory of those early aviation pioneers “The Early Birds.”
Between the years 1910-1917, aviators Weldone B. Cooke and Tom W. Benoist had aeroplane factories and flying schools in Sandusky which had a very important part in . . . — — Map (db m241109) HM
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