Harry Thomas Griffing and Sue Griffing founded Griffing Flying Service in 1937 on a 100-acre plot of land in Sandusky. It began as a...

Part 2 The new Norton Center Field House building which was just completed in October, is now in use.  Games are being played on the two...

Newspapers have been replaced, to a great extent, by tech media, but Port Clinton’s first hundred years presented readers with a lively...

Part 1 On Thursday Oct. 10, 2024, a ribbon cutting ceremony was held for the Norton Center, a new fieldhouse built on Danbury School...

Surprisingly (only to me?), the first telephone exchange in Port Clinton was started well over 100 years ago. And its rapid growth over...

The Story of Johnsons Island-Part 8 Around the same time that quarrying was ramping up on Johnson’s Island, a group of investors formed...

Once upon a time in Port Clinton, Ohio, the red logo of the Standard Products Company could be seen on the silver water tower rising...

The Story of Johnson’s Island- Part 7 May 13, 1865 the Civil War officially ended.  After 40 months of operation, the prison camp on...

Even most of us who aren’t Port Clinton natives are familiar with the Matthews name, due to the vision and perseverance of one Scott...

Ottawa County was formed in 1840 and its first courthouse was built shortly thereafter. Unfortunately, that building had deteriorated so...