Thursday, February 7, 2008

Rockwell Springs Trout Club: A Fisherman's Paradise

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Two miles south of Castalia, near the Sandusky Erie County line, lies Rockwell Springs Trout Club. For more than a century, the club has bee...
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Tuesday, February 5, 2008

Glenn Curtiss and the 1910 Flight from Euclid Beach to Cedar Point

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Glenn Curtiss [from the Charles E. Frohman Collection] It was a more than a strange sight to the 100,000 spectators who jammed Cleveland’s ...
Monday, February 4, 2008

Success

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On the Fourth of July 1946, hundreds watched from the Port Clinton, Ohio shoreline as one of the world’s most notorious and controversial sh...
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Friday, February 1, 2008

General James B. McPherson Monument at Clyde, Ohio

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General James B. McPherson Monument On August 22nd, 1881, 10,000 individuals - Civil War veterans, U.S. congressmen, military officers, area...
Monday, January 28, 2008

The Anatomy of Nineteenth Century Medicine

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The primitive state of nineteenth century medicine frequently made surgery a frightening experience for patient and physician alike. In the ...

Colonel Everton J. Conger and Lincoln's Assassin

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In the early morning hours of April 27, 1865, Colonel Everton J. Conger, a Secret Service agent, raced through the streets of Washington, D....

James Albert Wales - Political Cartoonist

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For 19th-century Americans, politics was entertainment. There was no TV, radio, cable, video, or You Tube, but just the same, everyone knew ...