Tuesday, August 29, 2017

Charles Livingston Hubbard, Yale 1873

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This tintype portrait of Charles Livingston Hubbard was taken when he was a young man. Charles was born in 1851 to Lester S. Hubbard an...
Saturday, August 26, 2017

Sandusky Library’s Bookmobile

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From the late 1940s through the 1980s, the Sandusky Library operated a Bookmobile to bring library services to rural areas and housing ...
Wednesday, August 23, 2017

The Steamer Eastland

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The Eastland served as a passenger liner between Cleveland and the Cedar Point amusement park from 1907 to 1913.                ...
Sunday, August 20, 2017

American Legion Convention at Cedar Point, 1934

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The sixteenth annual convention of the American Legion, Department of Ohio, was held in Sandusky , Ohio from August 18 to August 20, ...
Thursday, August 17, 2017

Dan Rice's Circus in Sandusky

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The Sandusky Register of August 17, 1872 reported that while the afternoon crowd was not very large for Dan Rice’s Circus, every seat wa...
Monday, August 14, 2017

Grand Opening of Hills Department Store in Sandusky

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On August 14, 1963, the Hills Department Store opened in Sandusky, Ohio in the Perkins Plaza. Alden Wintersteller, a local photographer, ca...
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Friday, August 11, 2017

The Steamer Lakeside, Later Named the Olcott

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Ernst Niebergall took this picture of the Steamer Lakeside as it was coming in through icy waters, around 1905. The Lakeside had been ...
Tuesday, August 08, 2017

Jungle Larry at Cedar Point

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In 1964 Lawrence Tetzlaff, known as “Jungle Larry,” a highly respected zoologist, opened a wild animal exhibit at Cedar Point. By 1965 ...
Saturday, August 05, 2017

With the 308th Engineers from Ohio to the Rhine and Back

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In the military section of the Genealogical and Local History books at the Sandusky Library is a book entitled With the 308 th Enginee...
Wednesday, August 02, 2017

Watson Hubbard, Sandusky Businessman

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Watson Hubbard was born in Bloomfield, Connecticut on July 11, 1819. He married Georgiana A. Holcomb in 1845. Mr. and Mrs. Watson Hubba...
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