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The Dilgart & Bittner Company
Here is an advertisement created by Gerald Abele Signs for the Dilgart & Bittner Company. (Most records list Dilgart as the correct spelling of the first partner’s name, though the sign gives the...
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Lake Shore Tire Company
The Lake Shore Tire Company operated in Sandusky, Ohiofrom about 1915 to 1931 on the 1000 block of Hancock Street. The business was run by Fred Brobst and J. Leroy Weier. The company started out...
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Walter F. Rittman, Chemical Engineer
Walter F. Rittman was born in Sandusky in 1883 to Christ and Louisa Rittman. Walter was an excellent football player while at SanduskyHigh School. He worked his way through OhioNorthernUniversity, and...
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Leonard B. Gurley, Pioneer Poet
In honor of National Poetry Month, a story about Sandusky's pioneer poet:Leonard Beatty Gurleywas born in Connecticutto Rev. William Gurley and Susannah Beatty. His uncle, John Beatty, was the Mayor of...
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Wednesday, April 17, at 12:00 p.m.Eleanor Roosevelt was born into New York City’s high society in 1884, but experienced a childhood filled with tragedy. In 1905 she married her distant cousin Franklin....
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Carl L. Osberg’s Drug Store
In the early part of the twentieth century, for over twenty years Carl L. Osberg operated a drug store on the street level of the Odd Fellows building on Washington Row in downtown Sandusky. You can...
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Dr. Augustus J. Gawne, Inventor
Augustus James Gawne was born in 1843 to Charles and Alice Gawne. From about 1880 to 1910, Dr. A. J. Gawne was a physician in Sandusky, Ohio. He had his office at several different locations in...
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Weier Brothers Company
John and Henry Weier started a salvage business in the early 1880s at 922 Hancock Street. After the street numbers changed in 1915, the Weier Brothers Company’s address changed to 1024 Hancock Street....
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Eagles, Sandusky Aerie No. 444, Bowling League Champions in 1929
During the 1928-1929 bowling season, the Sandusky Eagles had eight teams in its league. Each team was named for a different portion of the eagle: Heads, Tails, Claws, Spurs, Feathers, Beaks, Legs, and...
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Northwest Territory Celebration
On April 30, 1938, thousands of people in Sandusky celebrated the 150th anniversary of the Northwest Ordinance of 1787. A parade, banquet, and pageant were features of the local celebration. At 10:30...
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Jacob A. Biehl’s Grocery Store
From 1888 until his death in 1935, Jacob A. Biehl operated a grocery store at the southeast corner of Warren and Reese Streets in Sandusky, Ohio. Hewson Peeke wrote in his book, A Standard History of...
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A Walk in Washington Park in 1895
This photograph from the Sandusky Parks Collection of the Sandusky Library Archives Research Center was taken in 1895. The clothes of the people walking in Washington Park are typical of the Victorian...
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Miss Rose Ball, Graduate of Providence School of Nursing
Miss Rose Ball was born May 4, 1877 in Reed Township, Seneca County, Ohio. An article in the February 20, 1926 issue of the Sandusky Star Journal stated that Rose Ball was a well-known nurse, having...
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Steamer Frank E. Kirby
Sandusky photographer Ernst Niebergall took this picture of the steamer Frank E. Kirby in the first quarter of the twentieth century. The Frank E. Kirby was built in Wyandotte, Michigan by the...
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Program Announcement: Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg
May 13, 6:30PMThe non-commissioned officers of Company A of the Hoffman Battalion, posing for photograph at Johnson's Island prisoner-of-war camp, circa 1864.Join us in the Library Program Room for a...
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The Lagoons at Cedar Point
Around 1904, under the direction of G.A. Boeckling, the Detroit Dredging Company drained the marshy areas of the Cedar Point peninsula, to create a water passageway throughout the park. Through the...
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Esmond Dairy Baseball Team
The Esmond Dairy baseball team is pictured above on the grounds of the Ohio Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Home. In the 1920s, the Esmond Dairy sponsored baseball, football, and basketball teams. An article in...
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The Theatorium Movie Theater
Karl Kurtz wrote in the July 23, 1977 issue of the Sandusky Register in his “Elderlies” column that the first silent movie shown in the Sandusky area was The Great Train Robbery. Veteran...
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Sandusky High School Graduates in the Military, Spring 1918
The April 1918 issue of the Fram featured the names of seventy-six individuals who had either attended or graduated from Sandusky High School, and were serving in military service during World War I....
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Alton T. Young, Erie County Sheriff
Alton T. Young, known as “Al,” served as Erie County Sheriff for four terms, from 1948 to 1964. During Sheriff Young’s tenure, he was connected with several interesting ways to enforce the law. He...
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