Wednesday, October 23, 2024

Sandusky and Vacationland in WPA Guides

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  The Federal Writers’ Project was a part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s W.P.A. - known as the Works Progress Administration from 1935...
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Saturday, September 28, 2024

The Dorastus Snow Family and a Wartime Raid in Margaretta Township

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 According to the September 1860 Firelands Pioneer , Dorastus P. Snow was the first white settler in Margaretta Township . He built a log h...
Monday, September 16, 2024

The Tragic Life and Death of George Scudder

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  According to an article in the August 11, 1884 issue of the Sandusky Register , George T. Scudder took his own life on August 9, 1884. The...
Wednesday, September 04, 2024

School Children 100+ Years Ago

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  Pictured above is a group of children from classes 3-A and 4-B at Sycamore School in 1919. Most of the young people look very serious. Whi...
Tuesday, July 30, 2024

Sandusky Downtown Street Fair 1960

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  In 1960, the downtown merchants of Sandusky hosted a street fair, which was held on July 28, 29 and 30. A committee of thirteen men plann...
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Tuesday, June 25, 2024

Rosemary Schultz Riccardi, aka Xavora Pove

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Rosemary Schultz became a talented pianist at a very young age. She was the daughter of Sandusky residents Frank and Mary Schultz. Her mothe...
Friday, May 31, 2024

Morris Platte: Baseball Star, Soldier in War, Victim of Influenza

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  On the left of this photograph of the Shamrocks baseball team is Morris "Baldy" Platte, star pitcher for the 1914 Sandusky city ...
Wednesday, May 08, 2024

The Spirit of the Times

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In the archives of the Sandusky Library is a bound volume of a newspaper called the Spirit of the Times. It was published in Batavia, New Yo...
Wednesday, April 03, 2024

Esther Rose Miller, Educator and World Traveler

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  Around 1912, Willard A. Bishop took this picture of Robert and Esther Rose Miller, who were the children of former city commissioner Charl...
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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