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Anton Johanssen, Caretaker of Johnson’s Island Cemetery
From about 1911 to 1956, Sandusky resident Anton Johanssen worked as the caretaker of the Johnson’s Island Cemetery, on Johnson’s Island. The cemetery is the final resting place of over two hundred...
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Brown Clutch Company and Brown Industries
Though it is no longer in business, for many years the Brown Clutch Company, later Brown Industries, played an important role in several different lines of manufacturing. The Brown Clutch Company of...
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Commercial Building at the Southeast Corner of Market and Wayne Streets
This picture of the Bing’s Furniture Store at 202 West Market Street was taken by Helen Hansen in 1983. At that time the building recently had a face-lift which included the addition of shutters over...
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Buoys and Gulls around Sandusky Bay
Since Sandusky is located on Sandusky Bay and Lake Erie, seagulls and buoys are sights that are quite familiar to local residents and visitors to the area. Gulls are found in location all locations of...
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Election of November 3, 1891
On October 12, 1891, Erie County Sheriff Christian Wiedel posted a proclamation which notified area residents that the November election of 1891 was to be held on November 3, 1891. The Sandusky...
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O.S. Alcott and the "First Presidential Voters’ Club" of 1888
O.S. Alcott donated this 1888 ribbon from the First Presidential Voters’ Club of 1888. The members of this club supported the Republican Presidential candidate Benjamin Harrison, who defeated the...
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Harlequins Production of Journey’s End
On February 27, 1939, the Harlequins performed the play Journey’s End. The play, written by R.C. Sherriff, took an honest look at the horrors of war. It was first performed in London, England in 1928,...
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Honoring Those Who Served in World War I
As we commemorate the 100th anniversary of World War I, it is time to take a moment to remember the soldiers from Erie County who gave their lives for their country during the war. Harold BlanckeHarold...
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The Central Avenue Fire Station
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a fire station stood at the northeast corner of Central Avenue and Osborne Streets. Known as Fire Station Number 4, it was constructed of...
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Sandusky Taxicab Advertisements in 1919
Arthur L. Pietschman ran the Pietschman Transfer & Taxi Company in Sandusky in 1919. He offered taxi service during the night or day, and also moved baggage, theatrical items and pianos. In 1923 he...
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Happy Thanksgiving
(Reposted from 2006)As many of you might remember learning in grade school, the first "official" Thanksgiving was proclaimed by President Abraham Lincoln during the height of the Civil War, in 1863, in...
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Isaac D. Everett, Sandusky Merchant
Isaac D. Everett was born in 1830 to Adam and Mary (Wolverton) Everett. In 1862, he married Lavinia Nettleton, who was fondly known as Fanny. He was the brother in law of Leonard B. Johnson, the owner...
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Pictures from a Play by the Harlequins in 1948
On November 15 and 16, 1948, the local dramatic group the Harlequins presented the play You Can’t Take it With You. The play was a comedy written by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart. Some of the...
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Historic Views of the Southwest Corner of Monroe and Hancock Streets
When M.J. Bender opened a grocery store at the southwest corner of Monroe and Hancock Streets in Sandusky on February 18, 1891, a newspaper ad stated that it was “one of the finest and largest...
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Art Works by George Koch
Above is a painting by George Koch, which is on display in the Children’s Services area of the Sandusky Library. It depicts children building a snowman in the 1940s. George William Albert Koch was born...
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Judge Elisha M. Colver
In Judge Colver’s obituary in the Sandusky Register of September 25, 1895, the headline read “Death of a Patriot, Soldier, Jurist and Orator.” Elisha M. Colver was born in Hudson, New York in 1832,...
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Lotz Grocery Once Stood at the Corner of Shelby and West Washington Streets
The popular eatery Joe Sundae’s has been in operation at the northeast corner of Shelby and West Washington Streets since 2007, but this commercial property has been home to several other businesses...
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A History of the Coal Docks
Two centuries ago, Sandusky’s founders assumed that Sandusky’s protected harbor destined the city to become the leading port on Lake Erie. Unfortunately, this was not to be the case. The problem was...
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Historic Notary Seal
This historic Ohio notary seal is now in the collections of the Follett House Museum. It is much larger than the notary seals in use today. A Notary Public is a person authorized to witness the signing...
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Plenty of Holiday Cheer at Sandusky’s Hospitals in 1923
In December of 1923, the city of Sandusky had two hospitals, Good Samaritan Hospital (top) and Providence Hospital (lower). (These images appeared in Our City Sandusky a publication printed in 1924,...
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