Once upon a time, a trolley line ran through Port Clinton, Ohio. In 1901, Port Clinton and Lakeside Railroad founded an interurban line...

Part 4 The United States entered World War I in April 1917, a short time before Fred graduated. He joined a special branch of the Army...

Among the numerous historical items of local interest in the Ottawa County Museum is a large framed American flag from the 19th century....

This is a continuation of the story of Fred Norton, for whom Danbury Local Schools named their new 25,000 sq. ft. Field House, the Norton...

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...