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
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
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
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
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
Erected by the British near this junction in 1761; destroyed during Pontiac's Conspiracy of 1763. The fort was strategically located near Indian towns and trading posts on the Great Indian trail between Detroit and Pittsburgh. — — Map (db m290845) HM
Jury of Erie County Women. "Jury of Erie County Women, First to be Impaneled Under Federal Suffrage" proclaimed the headline of the Sandusky Register on August 28, 1920. One of the first female Court of Common Pleas juries in the nation was . . . — — Map (db m241172) HM
The prehistory of Ohio is generally divided into four major time periods: The Paleoindian, Archaic, Woodland, and Proto-historic periods. The Archaic and Woodland are each further sub-divided into Early, Middle, and Late time periods.
The . . . — — Map (db m214343) HM
Before the advent of mechanized diggers, a farmer could only harvest as many potatoes that he could dig by hand. This mechanized digger, invented by Isaac Hoover, could harvest hundreds of bushels a day. It could dig the potatoes, sift and separate . . . — — Map (db m308974) 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
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
The Lockwood farm is now East Harbor State Park. Edward and Lydia Lockwood are buried in marked and
maintained graves here within the park. The grave site is maintained by the State of Ohio.
Grave markers bear the following inscriptions:
. . . — — Map (db m170791) HM
Southwest quadrant:
Section 2 lot 7 Edward Wade (1802-1866) was born in Massachusetts and moved as a boy with his large family to Ashtabula. In 1832, he married Sarah Atkins, daughter of a prominent abolitionist, Josiah Atkins, who was . . . — — Map (db m297142) HM
Side A Runaway slaves used a web of routes through Crawford County, most going through the city of Bucyrus. Present-day State Route 98 to State Route 4, laid out in 1822 from Norton in northern Delaware County through Bucyrus to Sandusky in . . . — — Map (db m107079) HM
Native American influence on this area of northwestern Pennsylvania pre-date the 1492 encounter by at least 13,500 years.
Erie County is named after its first known inhabitants, the Erie Nation.
The Erie Nation, also known as the Cat . . . — — Map (db m25977) 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
At 10:45 a.m. on February 5, 1944, 1st Lt. John B. Beatty of Sandusky, OH, and 2d Lt. Earnest W. Fanslau of Mantua, NJ took to the air from the Ainsworth Army Air Field in two P-47 "Thunderbolt" fighter planes for an instrument training flight. Lt. . . . — — Map (db m77754) 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
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 m262016) 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
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
Earliest railroad activity along the Lake Erie shoreline began in the early 1840s, with local investors forming the Erie & North East Railroad. Finished in 1852, this 19-mile section of 6 foot gauge track ran from the City of Erie near 14th Street . . . — — Map (db m132202) HM
Dedicated to and in honor of the
mothers and wives of Erie County
Ohio whose sons and husbands served
their country in the World War.
These gave their lives in service.
Robert Adkerson •
Austin J. Atwood •
Joseph F. Baier • . . . — — Map (db m204816) WM
Thin black lines indicate changes in relevance. Between each pair of lines entries are ordered geographically but all have the same relevance.
* Inflectional forms of words are their plurals, singulars, and possessives as well as gramatical tenses and similar variations.
