DANBURY SCHOOL’S NEWEST BUILDING HAS OLDEST HISTORY - Lorrie Halblaub
Part 1 On Thursday Oct. 10, 2024, a ribbon cutting ceremony was held for the Norton Center, a new fieldhouse built on Danbury School...
Places on the Peninsula - Lorrie Halblaub
The Story of Johnson’s Island-Part I Johnson’s Island is the only island in Sandusky Bay. Today it is part the Village of Marblehead in...
EARLY DANBURY-MARBLEHEAD PENINSULA TRANSPORTATION - Lorrie Halblaub
Automobiles The Marblehead Peninsula is a place that is geographically challenged. In most towns, if you want to drive a car north,...
EARLY DANBURY-MARBLEHEAD PENINSULA TRANSPORTATION - Lorrie Halblaub
AIRPLANES Part 3 A previous article Airplanes #1, featured the story of the Marblehead Airport that was located off Alexander Pike, and...
EARLY DANBURY-MARBLEHEAD PENINSULA TRANSPORTATION - Lorrie Halblaub
AIRPLANES Part 2 Besides having a small airport in the quarry near Alexander Pike, Marblehead also had a resident who was an inventor and...
EARLY DANBURY-MARBLEHEAD PENINSULA TRANSPORTATION - Lorrie Halblaub
The Railroads- Part 2 Last month, we learned that the steam-powered Lakeside & Marblehead Railroad, which made its first trip in 1887,...
EARLY DANBURY-MARBLEHEAD PENINSULA TRANSPORTATION - Lorrie Halblaub
The Railroads- Part 1 Because the Lake Erie shipping industry was curtailed during the winter when the lakes were frozen, the idea of...
EARLY DANBURY-MARBLEHEAD TRANSPORTATION - Lorrie Halblaub
The First Ships in the Area Before the invention of the automobile, transportation on the Marblehead Peninsula was by walking, or by...
A Tale of Three Churches - Lorrie Halblaub
Marblehead has not one, not two, but three different Catholic Churches: St. Joseph Roman Catholic, St. Mary Byzantine Greek Catholic,...
Sesquicentennials - Lorrie Halblaub
Back in the early 1870’s, it was almost like a race. Two religious communities on the Marblehead Peninsula, within blocks of each other,...
