Now a private residence, the Oxford Township
Grange Hall was the center of community life for many years from the early
1900s until the 1980s. The building is located at the intersection of Taylor Road
and Mason Road in Oxford Township of Erie County, Ohio. Farming was the main occupation of residents
of Oxford Township in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In the picture above, from the 1910s, several
individuals can be seen with their horses and buggies.
Bloomingville is an
unincorporated village in northern Oxford Township of Erie County. Hewson Peeke
wrote in A Standard History of Erie County, Ohio, that the earliest settlers in
Bloomingville arrived in 1810. Bloomingville was one of the largest towns in northern
Ohio at that time, with a church, mill, school, inn, and
post office established in that first decade. The Bank of Sandusky Bay was built in
the village in 1816-1817, but it was not granted a charter. The old brick bank building is pictured
below.
Eleutheros Cooke and his family lived in the former bank building in
1819, and his son Pitt Cooke was born here. Andrew W. Prout lived here in
the 1830s. (The building no longer stands.)
The Bloomingville Cemetery is located adjacent to the former Grange building, with burials dating back to the early 1800s.
You can read more about the history of Oxford
Township in several histories of Erie County, Ohio, at the Sandusky Library.
The historic marker at Bloomingville Cemetery gives a brief summary of the community's history |
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Had my wedding reception there many years ago.
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