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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1I0A_ohio-veterans-home_Sandusky-OH.html
Following the Civil War, many of Ohio's disabled and wounded veterans found inadequate provisions for their long-term needs. In response, the Grand Army of the Republic's Department of Ohio lobbied for a state-operated veterans' home. In 1886 Gove…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1I09_ohio-veterans-home_Sandusky-OH.html
Following the Civil War, many of Ohio's disabled and wounded veterans found inadequate provisions for their long-term needs. In response, the Grand Army of the Republic's Department of Ohio lobbied for a state-operated veterans' home. In 1886 Gove…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1I08_grace-episcopal-church_Sandusky-OH.html
This building was begun in 1835 and was completed in 1844. It is the oldest church building in continual use in Sandusky and incorporates a portion of the original structure. This marker commemorated the one hundred fiftieth anniversary of the lay…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1I07_kilbourne-plat_Sandusky-OH.html
Hector Kilbourne, a Freemason and the surveyor who make the original plat of Sandusky (as Portland) in 1816, laid out the streets to form the Masonic emblem. Huron and Central Avenue are the arms of the compass, Elm and Poplar Streets the sides of…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1I06_underground-railroad_Sandusky-OH.html
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 g…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1I05_the-underground-railroad-abolition-boats-provide-an-escape-to-freedom-in-erie-county_Sandusky-OH.html
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 instr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1HZX_jury-of-erie-county-women_Sandusky-OH.html
"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 impaneled in Erie County on Augus…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1HZW_sandusky_Sandusky-OH.html
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 - influx of refugees from…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1HZV_old-perkins-cemetery_Sandusky-OH.html
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 o…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMS0U_historic-roadway_Sandusky-OH.html
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 roadwa…