Monday, March 31, 2014

The Market Street Fire of 1939

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On this date seventy-five years ago the most devastating fire Sandusky has known struck downtown, turning nearly an entire block into rui...
Saturday, March 29, 2014

C. Keim’s Excelsior Monumental Works

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Conrad Keim was the proprietor of C. Keim’s Monumental Works in Sandusky , Ohio from 1902 until his death in 1927. The monument busine...
Wednesday, March 26, 2014

George Schade’s Runabout Automobile

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George Schade’s Runabout automobile is pictured above, in front of the Kuebeler-Schade home on Tiffin Avenue in the very early 1900s. ...
Monday, March 24, 2014

Program Announcement: "The Clydesdale Motor Truck Company" -- Author Talk and Book Signing

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Saturday March 29, 2PM, in the Library Program Room Manufactured in nearby Clyde, Clydesdale trucks were important products of the e...
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Sunday, March 23, 2014

Odd Fellows’ Festival in 1856

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On March 25, 1856 the Odd Fellows’ Festival was held at West’s Hall in the West House in downtown Sandusky. The floor managers were John Y...
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Thursday, March 20, 2014

Views of the Foot of Columbus Avenue

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As Leola M. Stewart noted in her 1948 article,  Sandusky,Pioneer Link Between Rail and Sail , Sandusky has one of the finest natural h...
Monday, March 17, 2014

St. Patrick’s Day Entertainment at Biemiller’s Opera House

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On the evening of St. Patrick’s Day, most likely in the 1880s or 1890s, a program of entertainment was held at Biemiller’s Opera House ...
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Friday, March 14, 2014

Annual Examinations in the Sandusky Public Schools in 1860

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Don't put stickers on your historic documents! On March 14, 1860, at 9 a.m., several students from the First Grammar School of Sand...
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Program Announcement: Brown-bag Lunch Series - Jay Cooke, the Sandusky Native Who Financed the Civil War

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Wednesday, March 19, at noon in the Library Program Room Local historian and author John Hildebrandt will explore the life and time...
Monday, March 10, 2014

James R. Davis, Mail Carrier

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James R. Davis is on the right in this 1905 picture of Sandusky mail carriers. According to U.S. Census records, James R. Davis was bor...