Monday, March 25, 2024

A Visit from Sandusky's First Shopkeeper

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  On April 10, 1861, a special visitor checked into the West House hotel in downtown Sandusky; he was special enough that the desk clerk wro...
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Friday, March 15, 2024

Doctors Edwin Gillard, Sr. and Jr.

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The pencil sketch pictured above was done by Edwin Eugene Gillard in 1889 at around age 16, when he was a student in the Sandusky Public Sch...
Friday, March 08, 2024

The Only Legal Execution in Sandusky

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On a day in May 1840, the peaceful life in Sandusky was shattered by an unprovoked, unmotivated murder in the heart of downtown. Four months...
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Saturday, March 02, 2024

Mary Schott's Autograph Album

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The Sandusky Library Archives Research Center has in its collections an autograph book owned by Sandusky resident Mary Schott, with autograp...
Wednesday, February 21, 2024

Thomas R. McGeachie

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The photograph above, taken by W.A. Bishop, appeared on page 21 of the 1903 publication, What: Souvenir of Sandusky, Ohio and the Islands of...
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Monday, February 12, 2024

Valentines Given to Ralph Spahn

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Ralph Spahn was born in Sandusky, Ohio in 1891. He was the son of Fred Spahn and his wife, the former Philipine Hinkey. In the historical co...
Monday, February 05, 2024

Mrs. Mary Buyer, Parochial School Teacher

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  Mary E. McGoldric (sometimes spelled McGoldrick) was born in Sandusky in 1843, to Irish immigrants, John and Ann McGoldric. Mary’s father...
Wednesday, January 31, 2024

John W. Stevenson, Pioneer Merchant

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  John Wesley Stevenson was born in Maryland in 1825 to Mathew and Jane (Gilson) Stevenson. Mathew Stevenson was a pioneer physician in Ohio...
Friday, January 26, 2024

When First Christian Church was at 1325 Hayes Avenue

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  Local historian Helen Hansen took the picture above of the First Christian Church in the early 1950s, when it was located at 1325 Hayes Av...
Wednesday, January 17, 2024

Famous "Visitors" at the West House

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  The West House was Sandusky's first "high-rise" hotel, opened in 1858 at the corner of Columbus Avenue and Water Street (no...