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Grover Cleveland Enjoyed Fishing in Ohio
An often forgotten President, who is the subject of a recent book (available at the Sandusky Library), Grover Cleveland enjoyed fishing in several spots across the United States, during and after his...
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Elmer Grahl’s Painting and the Story of Sandusky's Puck
In 2003 longtime Sandusky barber Elmer Grahl painted a picture of the ice cream and sandwich shop operated by the Charles Hoffman family in the 1920s and 1930s. This shop is no longer standing, but it...
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Was the Surname Melville or Milne?
According to Helen Hansen's At Home in Early Sandusky, William Gordon Melville-Milne was born in Aberdeen, Scotland in 1819. He emigrated to Canada, where he married Catherine Kennedy. The couple moved...
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Embroidery from the Historical Collections of the Follett House Museum
Embroidery, as defined by the Encyclopedia Britannica, is "the art of decorating material, primarily textile fabric, by means of a needle and thread (and sometimes fine wire)." It dates back to ancient...
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Three Sandusky City School Officials in 1970
In the picture above, three Sandusky City School officials are looking over a magazine article explaining the art program for the school district in 1970. From left to right are: Frank Smith, Wallace...
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Wyandotte Point
An article in the October 12, 1919 issue of the Sandusky Register reported that real estate development had begun in an area known as Wyandotte Point, under the impetus of James J. Hinde, manager of...
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Remembering the Cassidy and Silvani Market
Ad from Sandusky Register Star News, February 17, 1953Silvani’s Market was located at 1614 Milan Road in Sandusky, Ohio for several years. The original store was started by Arthur Silvani’s father in...
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Women's History Month: Miss Emeline Baumeister, Educator and Author
Emeline Baumeister was the youngest child of Frank and Katherine Baumeister, born in Erie County, Ohio in 1895. She graduated from Sandusky High School and attended Kent State University, earning a...
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The John Rice Miner House
A daguerreotype image taken around 1876The home at the southeast corner of Fulton and Washington Streets in Sandusky, Ohio, was built in 1868 in the Italianate style. In the 1870s and 1880s, the family...
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Mrs. Josephine Leeson, Descendant of Pilgrims
Josephine Adelia Cook was the daughter of Dr. Thomas M. Cook, who was the surgeon of the 101st Ohio Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War. The Cook family traces its roots back to Francis Cooke, who...
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The Zurma Brothers
Image courtesy of the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Library, Fremont, OhioFrom the 1920s until 1945, two brothers of Italian descent, Urbano and Guerrino Zurma were in the tire business. The Zurma...
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Gertrude Schnaitter, American Red Cross Nurse in the Great War
Gertrude Schnaitter was born in Sandusky in 1884, to Frank and Christina Schnaitter. In the 1910 U.S. Census, Gertrude was listed as pupil studying nursing at the Lakeside Hospital in Cleveland. Below...
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Ernestine Weier Waldock
Ernestine Weier, sometimes known as Helen Ernestine Weier, was born in Sandusky in 1900, to Henry Weier and his wife, the former Elizabeth Py. She was a 1917 graduate of Sandusky High School. Ernestine...
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Harry L. Cole, Erie County Sheriff
Harry Lewis Cole was born in Huron, Ohio in 1879 to Mr. and Mrs. Angus Cole. For twenty years, he was a conductor on the Lake Shore Electric Railway.Lake Shore Electric Railway Car No. 41 near Sandusky...
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Scott Paper Company in Sandusky
1972 aerial picture of Scott Paper Co. from the Thomas F. Root CollectionFrom 1945 until it closed in 1981, Scott Paper Company did business on West Shoreline Drive, at the foot of Fulton Street. (In...
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Israel J.P. Tessier was born in 1848 in Ontario, Canada. As a young man he moved to Ohio, where he learned the printer’s trade. He was an apprentice to a printer in Toledo for several years. While in...
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Stereograph Cards of the Lake Erie Islands, by A.C. Platt
A.C. Platt was a popular photographer in Sandusky, Ohio in the 1870s and 1880s. The stereograph image above shows the A.C. Platt photographic art gallery and party room at Put in Bay. Platt produced a...
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Benwood Food Products, Processed in Sandusky
Pictured above is a wooden codfish box packed by the Bender-Woodward Company in Sandusky, Ohio. The Benwood brand name was a combination of the company’s officials, M.J. Bender, Jr. and W.W. Woodward....
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Maryette Goodwin Mackey, Educator
Maryette Goodwin was born in 1865, the daughter of Sandusky attorney Homer Goodwin and his wife, the former Marietta Cowles. She graduated from Wellesley College in 1888, and married attorney Denver...
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Sandusky Recreation Center Opened in 1928
The Sandusky Recreation Center bowling alley opened on West Market Street in 1928. J.C. Feick was the builder for the new building, which was in the 400 block of West Market Street, next to the Ogontz...
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