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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMS0T_first-cedar-point-road_Sandusky-OH.html
This was one of the first concrete roads built in Ohio. When Cedar Point opened for the 1913 season, it was the access road. The road extended one mile north to the water and six miles west along the lake's unstable sandspit, which was destroyed b…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMS0S_medusa-portland-cement-company_Sandusky-OH.html
The Sandusky Portland Cement Company, later known as the Medusa Portland Cement Company, was founded here in 1892 by Arthur, Spencer and William Newberry, sons of geologist Dr. John Strong Newberry. Portland cement was manufactured at the Bay Brid…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDHG_village-of-venice_Sandusky-OH.html
[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. Farmers from th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDGK_fort-sandusky_Sandusky-OH.html
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.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1E1_cedar-point_Sandusky-OH.html
Cedar Point became a popular beach resort in the late 1870's, when visitors traveled to the peninsula by steamboat from Sandusky. The Grand Pavilion (1888), the oldest building in the park, dates from this era. Promoter George Boeckling formed the…
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