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David M. Arndt, Sandusky Businessman, Local Telephone Pioneer
Mr. David M. Arndt was known as one of Sandusky’s foremost citizens. He moved to Sandusky in the 1860s from Seneca County, Ohio. Mr. Arndt worked in several different lines of work in Sandusky,...
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Red Arrow Auctions in Sandusky
In 1930 and 1931, several "Red Arrow Auctions" were held at the Junior High School in Sandusky.Local businesses gave customers “Red Arrow Money” which could then be redeemed for items at a "Red Arrow...
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Getting to Know Professor J.D. Luse
Image Credit: FamilySearch.orgJesse Dial Luse is the younger man at the far right in the picture above. This family photograph shows the nine children of Jesse and Sylphina Luse. Often known by his...
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Whiskey Run Sewer
Hewson Peeke wrote in A Standard History of Erie County(Lewis Publishing, 1916) that Vincent Kerber finished construction of the Whisky Run sewer in 1875. This sewer line ran along Mills Street from...
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Mr. and Mrs. James Ellis Marshall
James Ellis Marshall was born in 1808 in Bradford, England. He came to the United States in 1855, having interests in the textile and iron industries in Berkshire County, Massachusetts. In about 1860...
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Bogarts Corners
Pictured above is an undated photograph of a tavern located at Bogarts Corners, probably from the late 1800s or early 1900s.The United States Geological Survey places Bogart, formerly known as Bogarts...
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August 26 is National Dog Day
Captain Payne, dog of Judge Jay PayneDogs have been a trusted human companion for centuries, and this fact is certainly reflected in the collections of the Sandusky Library Archives Research Center. We...
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Maus Shoes
After working as a salesman for W.O. Stubig’s shoe store, John N. Maus opened his own business on Market Street in Sandusky. The advertisement above, from the Sandusky Star Journal of July 6, 1916,...
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Mrs. Caroline Curtis Moss Wilcox
Caroline Curtis was born in Massachusetts in 1871 to Myron B. Curtis and the former Georgette Ainsworth. After her father died in 1880, Caroline moved to Sandusky, Ohio, and married Augustus L. Moss,...
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When City Hall Was on Market and Decatur Streets
From 1888 to 1913, a stone structure near the intersection of Market and Decatur Streets was home to a public marketplace. Sandusky’s City Hall occupied the upper floors of the market building. The...
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Charles L. Wagner, Pioneer in the Natural Ice Industry
Charles L. Wagner was born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1852, to German-born parents, Mr. and Mrs. Julius Wagner. As a young man, he was a clerk in several different stores in Sandusky, Ohio, and later was...
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The Graham Block
The image above is from an 1894 publication, Art Work of Huron and Erie Counties. According to volume 11 of the Firelands Pioneer, John A. Graham had the Graham Block built in the late 1870s. He was...
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Visitors to the Ohio Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Home
Now the Ohio Veterans Home, the Ohio Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Home in Erie County, Ohio, was established in the late 1880s to provide homes for honorably discharged Veterans. Its earliest residents...
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New Athletic Field for Sandusky High School Dedicated in 1922
Though SanduskyHigh School was located on Adams Street at Washington Parkin 1922, the School Board purchased property for a new athletic field on the south side of town, between Hayes Avenueand Camp...
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B.P. Sexton Company
Idlewood Rye was just one of the products that was carried by the B.P. Sexton Company in Sandusky, Ohio. The company was incorporated in November of 1898, and was dissolved in 1920. Signers of the...
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Visiting Cemeteries
When you visit a cemetery, you can learn a lot about your family history. You may find tombstones of infants that you never knew existed, until you found their grave marker. By looking around a family...
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Treasure Chest Campaign for War-Torn Countries in 1945
Sandusky Library staff members Esther Moreland and Harry Meisler are seated beside one of the treasure chests of books collected in 1945, to be sent off to Europe. Miss Yvonne Fievet, then Children’s...
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Advertisements from the W.O. Stubig Shoe Store
William O. Stubig began working in his father’s shoe store on Water Street in the 1890s. Christian Stubig, a German immigrant and Civil War veteran, founded the shoe store in 1866. After the elder Mr....
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Seele’s Restaurant, Later Hanson's Restaurant
In 1892, Charles J. Seele opened a restaurant at 724 Water Street between Columbus Avenue and Jackson Street, not far from the West House hotel in downtown Sandusky. In 1907 Seele’s sold fresh bulk...
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The Twin Homes of the Kuebeler Brothers
The homes of August and Jacob Kuebeler were pictured in the 1894 publication, Art Work of Huron and Erie Counties. Built in 1885, the residence of August Kuebeler was at 1319 Tiffin Avenue, and is...
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