Built in 1822, this native limestone structure was the home of Benajah Wolcott, first keeper of the Marblehead Lighthouse (originally called the Sandusky Bay Light), and his second wife, Rachel Miller Wolcott. Benajah maintained the lighthouse from . . . — — Map (db m18980) HM
Immigrants of Ottawa County. Ottawa County's development between 1820-1920 was dependent on the labor of new immigrants who brought their religious and cultural practices with them to Ohio. By 1870, one in four county residents were . . . — — Map (db m248428) HM
As the county seat. Port Clinton is home to the present Ottawa County Courthouse, completed on May 20, 1901 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. Constructed in the Richardson Romanesque style, the exterior of the . . . — — Map (db m277273) HM
As the county seat. Port Clinton is home to the present Ottawa County Courthouse, completed on May 20, 1901 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. Constructed in the Richardson Romanesque style, the exterior of the . . . — — Map (db m277274) HM
This marker trail is dedicated to all those who have served their country from the American Revolution to this day. Please read more about these patriots by scanning the QR code below. — — Map (db m303044) WM
This marker trail is dedicated to all those who have served their country from the American Revolution to this day. Please read more about these patriots by scanning the QR code below. — — Map (db m303045) WM
This marker trail is dedicated to all those who have served their country from the American Revolution to this day. Please read more about these patriots by scanning the QR code below. — — Map (db m303063) WM
This marker trail is dedicated to all those who have served their country from the American Revolution to this day. Please read more about these patriots by scanning the QR code below. — — Map (db m303067) WM
This marker trail is dedicated to all those who have served their country from the American Revolution to this day. Please read more about these patriots by scanning the QR code below. — — Map (db m303075) WM
This marker trail is dedicated to all those who have served their country from the American Revolution to this day. Please read more about these patriots by scanning the QR code below. — — Map (db m303076) WM
This marker trail is dedicated to all those who have served their country from the American Revolution to this day. Please read more about these patriots by scanning the QR code below. — — Map (db m303096) WM
This marker trail is dedicated to all those who have served their country from the American Revolution to this day. Please read more about these patriots by scanning the QR code below. — — Map (db m303047) WM
This marker trail is dedicated to all those who have served their country from the American Revolution to this day. Please read more about these patriots by scanning the QR code below. — — Map (db m303046) WM
This marker trail is dedicated to all those who have served their country from the American Revolution to this day. Please read more about these patriots by scanning the QR code below. — — Map (db m303064) WM
This marker trail is dedicated to all those who have served their country from the American Revolution to this day. Please read more about these patriots by scanning the QR code below. — — Map (db m303159) WM
This marker trail is dedicated to all those who have served their country from the American Revolution to this day. Please read more about these patriots by scanning the QR code below. — — Map (db m303058) WM
This marker trail is dedicated to all those who have served their country from the American Revolution to this day. Please read more about these patriots by scanning the QR code below. — — Map (db m303078) WM
This marker trail is dedicated to all those who have served their country from the American Revolution to this day. Please read more about these patriots by scanning the QR code below. — — Map (db m303080) WM
This marker trail is dedicated to all those who have served their country from the American Revolution to this day. Please read more about these patriots by scanning the QR code below. — — Map (db m303081) WM
This marker trail is dedicated to all those who have served their country from the American Revolution to this day. Please read more about these patriots by scanning the QR code below. — — Map (db m303146) WM
This marker trail is dedicated to all those who have served their country from the American Revolution to this day. Please read more about these patriots by scanning the QR code below. — — Map (db m303147) WM
This marker trail is dedicated to all those who have served their country from the American Revolution to this day. Please read more about these patriots by scanning the QR code below. — — Map (db m303148) WM
This marker trail is dedicated to all those who have served their country from the American Revolution to this day. Please read more about these patriots by scanning the QR code below. — — Map (db m303151) WM
This marker trail is dedicated to all those who have served their country from the American Revolution to this day. Please read more about these patriots by scanning the QR code below. — — Map (db m303179) WM
This marker trail is dedicated to all those who have served their country from the American Revolution to this day. Please read more about these patriots by scanning the QR code below. — — Map (db m303095) WM
This marker trail is dedicated to all those who have served their country from the American Revolution to this day. Please read more about these patriots by scanning the QR code below. — — Map (db m303150) WM
This marker trail is dedicated to all those who have served their country from the American Revolution to this day. Please read more about these patriots by scanning the QR code below. — — Map (db m303043) WM
This marker trail is dedicated to all those who have served their country from the American Revolution to this day. Please read more about these patriots by scanning the QR code below. — — Map (db m303053) WM
This marker trail is dedicated to all those who have served their country from the American Revolution to this day. Please read more about these patriots by scanning the QR code below. — — Map (db m303055) WM
This marker trail is dedicated to all those who have served their country from the American Revolution to this day. Please read more about these patriots by scanning the QR code below. — — Map (db m303086) WM
The first War of 1812 battle on Ohio soil was fought here when about 60 exhausted citizen soldiers were ambushed by about 130 Indians on September 29. Twenty men held the Indians at bay in a cabin while the main body escaped by boat to Cedar Point. . . . — — Map (db m35956) HM
In 1861 the United States Army established a prisoner of war camp on Johnson's Island, approximately 1 mile south of this point. The camp, which housed captured Confederate officers, was maintained until 1865 when it was dismantled. The camp . . . — — Map (db m19012) HM
The Keeper’s House is so named because it was the personal residence of the first two keepers of the nearby Marblehead Lighthouse. The house was built for Benajah Wolcott and his wife Rachel Miller by William Kelly, a stonemason from . . . — — Map (db m87283) HM
The Marblehead Lighthouse is the oldest lighthouse in continuous operation
on the Great Lakes. Originally known as the Sandusky Bay Light Station,
the lighthouse was built here in 1821 to aid navigation and prevent
shipwrecks. William Kelly . . . — — Map (db m150126) HM
This marker trail is dedicated to all those who have served their country from the American Revolution to this day. Please read more about these patriots by scanning the QR code below. — — Map (db m303088) WM
This marker trail is dedicated to all those who have served their country from the American Revolution to this day. Please read more about these patriots by scanning the QR code below. — — Map (db m303149) WM
This marker trail is dedicated to all those who have served their country from the American Revolution to this day. Please read more about these patriots by scanning the QR code below. — — Map (db m303091) WM
This marker trail is dedicated to all those who have served their country from the American Revolution to this day. Please read more about these patriots by scanning the QR code below. — — Map (db m303092) WM
This marker trail is dedicated to all those who have served their country from the American Revolution to this day. Please read more about these patriots by scanning the QR code below. — — Map (db m303093) WM
This marker trail is dedicated to all those who have served their country from the American Revolution to this day. Please read more about these patriots by scanning the QR code below. — — Map (db m303160) WM
This marker trail is dedicated to all those who have served their country from the American Revolution to this day. Please read more about these patriots by scanning the QR code below. — — Map (db m303162) WM
This marker trail is dedicated to all those who have served their country from the American Revolution to this day. Please read more about these patriots by scanning the QR code below. — — Map (db m303169) WM
This marker trail is dedicated to all those who have served their country from the American Revolution to this day. Please read more about these patriots by scanning the QR code below. — — Map (db m303089) WM
This marker trail is dedicated to all those who have served their country from the American Revolution to this day. Please read more about these patriots by scanning the QR code below. — — Map (db m303083) WM
This marker trail is dedicated to all those who have served their country from the American Revolution to this day. Please read more about these patriots by scanning the QR code below. — — Map (db m303085) WM
Established as Camp Perry Proving Ground, March, 1918, and later designated Erie Proving Ground, Erie Ordnance Depot, and Erie Army Depot. Artillery, tank guns, and armor plate were proof tested here during wartime periods. Over 5,000 persons were . . . — — Map (db m192464) HM
South face:Fort Sites
Here near the peninsula carrying place where earlier British traders may have had a post, French soldiers built in 1750 and 1751 a small palisaded fort later called "Sandoski." Lt. deLery reported . . . — — Map (db m241269) HM
This marker trail is dedicated to all those who have served their country from the American Revolution to this day. Please read more about these patriots by scanning the QR code below. — — Map (db m306328) WM
This marker trail is dedicated to all those who have served their country from the American Revolution to this day. Please read more about these patriots by scanning the QR code below. — — Map (db m306329) WM
This marker trail is dedicated to all those who have served their country from the American Revolution to this day. Please read more about these patriots by scanning the QR code below. — — Map (db m303177) WM
This marker commemorates the men and women who achieved American independence. These Patriots, believing in the noble cause of liberty, fought valiantly to found a new nation.
In honor of the 250th anniversary of the United States. — — Map (db m301666) WM
This is an "Improved" German Krupp designed 75mm field gun built in 1910 in the historic Japanese village of Shikano on the Sea of Japan under Osaka Arsenal's control. It is one of 2,900 built and one of only thirty-three in existence presently . . . — — Map (db m241281) HM WM
Oak Harbor pioneer, Adolphus Kraemer, was born, raided, and educated in Germany. After immigrating to the United States, he purchased the heavily forested land that is now Oak Harbor from Joseph Wardlow and moved here in 1838. He founded a saw mill . . . — — Map (db m301348) HM
[Marker Front]:
In memory of
Mason, Simonds, & Mingus.
Who fell near this place
in battle with the Indians.
Sept. 29, 1812.
[Marker Side]:
This Monument was erected in 1857 by Joshua R. Giddings . . . — — Map (db m18978) HM
The 2500-acre Lafarge Marblehead Quarry is home to over 25 rare plant species and an unusual alvar plant community. Alvars are areas of exposed limestone or dolomite bedrock which are maintained in an open state by natural phenomena such as . . . — — Map (db m248430) HM
What started as a challenge became a reality. Prior to 2003 bicentennial, the Oak
Harbor Lions Club was challenged by Ohio Bicentennial representative Beth Hansen,
former Oak Harbor native, to do something "extraordinary” for the . . . — — Map (db m196609) HM
This original log barn last stood on the Raymond Hermes Farm near Bolsiner Road, Salem Township, Ottawa County. It was donated to the Sandusky County Agricultural Society by the Toledo Area Catholic Diocese, who inherited the Hermes place.
The . . . — — Map (db m282765) HM
On this property is the site of a village once inhabited by Indians of the Iliniwek Tribe. The liniwek, or Illinois, were one of the three most significant Indian groups occupying Missouri at the time of first European contact. It is the only . . . — — Map (db m290815) HM
Sacred to the Memory of Benajah Wolcott
• Born New Haven, Conn., April 7, 1762
• Died Danbury, Ohio, August 11, 1832, aged 70 Years*
• Veteran of the First War for American Independence, 1778 - 1784
• Surveyor of the Firelands, 1806
• . . . — — Map (db m301665) HM
Hezekiah (1816-1896) and Lucinda
(1824-1884) Smith were free African
Americans who moved from Ohio to
Michigan and settled near Ferrysburg in
the 1840s. Hezekiah worked as
blacksmith and eventually became a
prominent landowner and farmer in . . . — — Map (db m229853) HM
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.