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HISTORY OF ERIE COUNTY 145
are, A. W. O 'Brien, of Maine; Jonathan Fuller, James F. Wilson and
John W. Falley.
The first physician was Doctor Hartshorn, who settled here in 1817.
Alargaretta Grange, No. 488, P. of H., was organized January 30,
1873, with twenty-seven charter members.
In the year 1870 John Hoyt, proprietor of the Castalia Paper Mills
(since burned), conceived the idea of trying a few thousand eggs of the
brook trout and proceeded to make troughs for hatching them. A severe
thunder storm killed the trout, and in his second attempt he was equally
unsuccessful for the brood of spawn is said to have been poisoned by the
keeper. The third were turned loose in the pond and multiplied and the
venture was a success. In May, 1878, a statute was passed by the State
of Ohio to incorporate a company which should be known as the Cold
Creek Trout Club, for the purpose of fishing, hunting and pleasuring, of
propagating fish and protecting game on lands leased from the Castalia
Milling Company. The capital stock of the company was $1,275, divided
into eighty-five shares of $15 a share. When the club was organized there
were seventy-four members.
The incorporators Avere J. Atwater, B. F. Ferris, R. F. Fowler, B. H.
Rogers and D. S. Worthington. This company leased the property for
tAventy years for $50 per year, having use and right to the headwaters,
and including branches and tail race for tAvo miles. In 1883 they built
a house, and in 1887 bought the property with buildings and forty
acres of land for $20,000. In 1887 the name was changed to that of
the Cold Creek Sporting Club. The old mill was moved away, and a
new race dug at a cost of $2,000 or $3,000.
The Castalia Sporting Club AA'as organized September 18, 1878, and
leased the use of the waters for twenty years for $300 a year. There
Avere five incorporators: Kelly Bolton, F. H. Mason, Lee McBride,
Fayette Brown, and II. L. Terrill, with Air. Brown as president, and
Air. AlcBride as secretary and treasurer. Mr. Mason was editor of the
Cleveland Leader and United States consul at Geneva. In 1882 they
built a clubhouse which cost them nearly $2,000, and March 10, 1888,
they bought of Alessrs. DAvelle and Williams the right to the lower waters
of the stream, extending four miles to the bay, and embracing on either
side of the stream thirteen rods. For this they paid $24,000.
CASTALIA SPRINGS
On the 13th of September, 1760, Maj. Robert Rogers of NeAV Hampshire
left Alontreal with instruction to proceed west and capture the
western forts held by the French and Indians. On the 4th of November
Major Rogers left Presque Isle, Erie, Pennsylvaniay Avith a fleet pf
fifteen Avhale boats. He coasted along the south shore of Lake Erie
and put into the mouth of Geauga, where he ran against Pontiac, at that
time chief of a large body of Indians. After some delay Pontiac opened
the way and escorted the party to Detroit. After securing the post at
Detroit, Rogers returned by land by way of the Sandusky and Tus-
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