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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PD2_milan_Milan-OH.html
Birthplace of Thomas A. Edison, February 11, 1847. A Moravian village, Peguotting, 1804-1809. First permanent white settlers came in 1816. Milan village platted, 1817; incorporated February 23, 1833. Ships canal to lake completed July 4, 1839 made…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PD1_edison-recalls-milan_Milan-OH.html
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 piece of land called the "…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1I0B_cholera-cemetery-in-honor-of-the-doctors_Sandusky-OH.html
Marker Front:Of the city's 5,667 people in 1849, 3,500 fled, and 400 of those remaining were victims of cholera. Most are buried here, some only in rough boxes in a common grave. The scourge came again in 1850 and 1852 but with less toll."Dismay s…
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…