• Today the Sandusky Ohio Veterans Home houses approximately 660 residents.
• By 2005, more than fifty thousand veterans had resided at what was now known as the
Ohio Veterans Home in Sandusky. — — Map (db m204820) HM
Using the power of eminent domain, the United States Government purchased 9,000 acres of land in Perkins Township, Erie County, Ohio to build the Plum Brook Ordnance Plant in 1941, displacing many families and businesses. This tract included the . . . — — Map (db m79099) HM
This U.S. Post Office building, Sandusky’s third, opened in 1927, replacing a smaller building at Columbus Avenue and Market Street. It is notable for its fine Neoclassical-style architecture and its unusual curved portico. It was added to the . . . — — Map (db m141801) HM
Dominating the Put-in-Bay skyline is Perry's Victory & International Peace Memorial, a 352 foot high Greek Doric column erected between 1912 and 1915. The memorial commemorates Oliver Hazard Perry's naval victory over a British squadron at the . . . — — Map (db m204900) HM
An Indian camp formerly called Ogontz Place by Chief Ogontz of the Ottawa Tribe. Sandusky, founded 1817 by Hon. Zalmon Wildman, Judge Isaac Mills, George Hoadley. Incorporated 1824, Dr. George Anderson, Aaron C. Corbet, Cyrus W. Marsh, Alexander . . . — — Map (db m142010) HM
Sandusky • Early Indian village of Ogontz; also French & British trading post. •
1816 – platted as town of Portland; English version of Indian name, “San Dus Tee,” adopted in 1818. •
First Connecticut settlers arrived in 1817. •
1848 – . . . — — Map (db m241214) HM
Weldon B. Cooke, Thomas W. Benoist, Reinhardt N. Ausmus experimented in early aviation from this site 1912 - 1917
One of Sandusky Shipyard Sites
Sail and Steamboats were built 1864-1933
Among the . . . — — Map (db m242220) HM
Formerly
Sandusky Telephone Building
1917- 1957
Donated By
The Ohio Bell Telephone Co.
To The
United Fund
Of Erie County, Inc.
October 2, 1963 — — Map (db m204587) HM
The Methodist Episcopal Church pioneered
organized religion in Perkins Township
1811, then in Sandusky when the Rev. Alfred
Brunson preached the city’s first sermon in
January, 1818. In 1829 the Methodists built
Sandusky’s first church, on West . . . — — Map (db m142005) HM
Piers were in existence here as early as 1846. Later three long piers were built by the Baltimore and Ohio Railway for commercial use. Iron ore, grain, lumber, sand, crushed stone and packaged freight were shipped from this point. The B&O Railway . . . — — Map (db m90708) HM
Originally, this site housed the West House, a hotel which sometimes sheltered the guards for Johnson's Island, the Confederate officers' prison camp across Sandusky Bay.
The building was erected by William F. Seitz and his sons as a complete . . . — — Map (db m117810) HM
Statue of Liberty, the symbol of freedom that stands on Liberty (formerly Bedloe's) Island in New York Harbor. The statue officially entitled "Liberty Enlightening the World," was placed in the harbor as a symbol to arriving voyagers of the . . . — — Map (db m241222) HM WM
The Nazis, who launched World War II in 1939, were forced to surrender in the Spring of 1945. It was nearly 3 a.m., 0241 hours, on May 7 at Rheims when the unconditional surrender of "all forces on land, sea, and air” under German control was . . . — — Map (db m241224) HM
The Boy with the Boot is the official symbol of the City of Sandusky. This statue is a replica of the 1895 original which stood in this fountain for many years. Produced by the J. W. Fiske Ironworks, New York City, the historic statue is now in the . . . — — Map (db m141893) 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 m182694) HM
The original copy of the Gettysburg Address. in Lincoln's own handwriting, which he held as he delivered the address on November 19, 1863, belongs to the Library of Congress at
Washington. The text is reproduced here.
In 1862 James J. Hinde and Jacob J. Dauch established a baling business to sell straw to paper mills, and in 1886 they became partners in a bankrupt mill on Pierce Street then known as the Sandusky Paper Company. Under their leadership the company . . . — — Map (db m90651) HM
President James Monroe enunciated the famous Monroe Doctrine in his address to congress of December 2, 1823. "The American Continents, by the free and independent conditions which they have assumed and maintained, are henceforth not to be . . . — — Map (db m241228) HM
The Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution, giving women the right to vote, was adopted on August 26, 1920. The original, in the form of a Congressional resolution, is in the National Archives at Washington.
Built in 1889 by the local firm A. Feick & Bro. (now
Feick Contractors), this fine example of late Victorian/
Italianate architecture was one of only three built
especially by the International Order of Odd Fellows
for their lodge activities. . . . — — Map (db m204593) HM
Marker Front: The Underground Railroad was neither underground nor a railroad, but a system of loosely connected safe havens where those escaping the brutal conditions of slavery were sheltered, fed, clothed, nursed, concealed, disguised, and . . . — — Map (db m241233) HM
This concretion was formed in sedimentary deposits over the ages. An unusually large specimen, it was found in 1911 on Mills Street and brought to this site at the behest of Professor E.L. Moseley, who was noted for his studies of Lake Erie and his . . . — — Map (db m142013) HM
Many homes in Sandusky and other parts of Erie County were stations on the Underground Railroad before and during the Civil War. Residents provided food, shelter, clothing, and transportation to Canada. Harriet Beecher Stowe used Sandusky as the . . . — — Map (db m79105) HM
This memorial is dedicated to those whose lives have been lost in military operations but not during times of conflict
1st Lt. John F. Kiffer, U.S. Air Force, 6/12/32 - 6/15/56 •
Lt. Brad A. Jacobs, U.S. Navy, 9/28/60 - 12/5/88 •
Spc. D. . . . — — Map (db m204813) WM
Dedicated to those
men and women of this county
who served our country
in times of peace and war
and especially to those
who gave their lives
in that service — — Map (db m204598) WM
Donated through the generous support of Ohio Foundation Veterans Organization and caring citizens in appreciation for service rendered to their country by the residents of the Ohio Veterans Home. — — Map (db m204808) WM
[Marker Front]:
The first Venice flour mill was built on this site in 1822. Russell Heywood of Buffalo bought the mill in 1831 and rebuilt it in 1833. Fed by water from underground springs, the mill was in almost constant operation. . . . — — Map (db m20476) HM
This Memorial is dedicated September 20, 1997, by the Ohio LST/Amphib Association in honor of all Navy and Coast Guard personnel who sailed LST's to assault beaches in WWII - Korea - Vietnam - Desert Storm plus peace time duty. This Memorial is . . . — — Map (db m216144) HM WM
The Hinde & Dauch Paper Company. James J. Hinde and Jacob J. Dauch operated a business selling baled straw to paper mills, and in 1888 they expanded by taking over a bankrupt paper mill on Fillmore Street. Demand for better packaging to . . . — — Map (db m241235) HM
Wooden shipbuilding thrived in sheds and shops that dotted the
banks of the Vermilion River. Starting in early 1800s they turned
out countless vessels that served a number of maritime industries;
schooners used for fishing and carrying cargo; . . . — — Map (db m149306) HM
At this site the Lake Shore Electric Railway crossed a bridge that spanned the Vermilion River. The western abutment of the former bridge is plainly visible just below along the river bank. Widely known as the "Greatest Electric Railway" in the . . . — — Map (db m225378) HM
Lester Allan Pelton, "the Father of Hydroelectric Power," was born on September 5, 1829, a quarter of a mile northwest of this site. He spent his childhood on a farm a mile south of this site and received his early education in a one-room . . . — — Map (db m75629) HM
By 1920 it was apparent that the building material of choice was steel. Between 1920 and 1957 over 25 steel boats were built in Vermilion. The establishment of the American Ship Building Company in nearby Lorain and other supporting industries such . . . — — Map (db m149457) HM
The lens in Vermilion’s lighthouse is powered by a single, 100-watt-equivalent LED
bulb, no more than an ordinary household lamp. Yet its light reaches 10 miles out across
Lake Erie. The technology that makes this possible was developed in the . . . — — Map (db m147935) HM
Vermillion. Founded 1808, incorporated 1837.
• Settled by Connecticut “Firelanders.”
• Name derived from red banks along river.
• Old Indian Fort, up river, famous for giving protection to Vermilion Tribe and roving bands. . . . — — Map (db m147774) HM
At the time Vermilion became a village in 1837,
the people had built their own navigational
aid at the mouth of the river using wooden
stakes topped with oil-burning beacons.
In 1840, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
dredged the river . . . — — Map (db m147951) HM
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