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176 HISTORY OF ERIE COUNTY
POPULATION OF SANDUSKY
In 1820 Sandusky had 300 population.
In 1830 Sandusky had 594 population.
In 1840 Sandusky had 1,500 population.
In 1850 Sandusky had 5,000 population.
In 1860 Sandusky had 8,478 population.
In 1870 Sandusky had 13,000 population.
In 1880 Sandusky had 15,838 population.
In 1890 Sandusky had 18,471 population.
In 1900 Sandusky had 19,664 population.
In 1910 Sandusky had 19,989 population.
On February 15, 1845, Amos Earl took a census of Sandusky and reported
its population as 1,469. The census of 1850 shoAved, according to
the Clarion of February 12, 1851, Sandusky having 5,088 population;
Cleveland, 17,074 • and Toledo, 3,819.
Why has Sandusky not groAvn ? The author does not care to discuss
politics, but it is proper to SIIOAV the falsity of reasons usually given. It
is said that the early surveys of Sandusky Avere faulty and caused a
large amount of litigation. This Avas nearly a-century ago, and after
three-quarters of a century all questions of that kind have been settled.
It is also said that prices Avere high at an early day in Sandusky.
This allegation is not sustained by the proof.
It is charged that the people of Sandusky refuse to offer any inducement
to manufacturers to locate, but as early as 1854 the city AA'as drafted
for $15,000 to locate a shipyard Avhere the Tool Company is now, which
shipyard Avas never built.
It used to be said Sandusky needed a I'CAV funerals. But all those
people have been dead for tAA'enty years.
If there Avere no other conclusive proof that Sandusky's failure to
progress Avas not due to the cholera, the address of Eleutheros Cooke
to the Congressional Committee of Commerce on February 6, 1850, in
the effort to procure an appropriation for the improvement of Sandusky
Harbor, Avould be sufficient. A copy of this address is on file in the
Carnegie Library.
In this address he states the amount of the A'alue of goods and the
duties at the port of Sandusky for the four years ending Avith the beginning
of 1850:
Value Duties
1846 $2,522.00 $ 335.00
1847 2,812.00 650.00
1848 5,831.00 1,424.00
1849 39,088.00 11,052.00
ShoAving an increase of duties on imports at the end of 1849 of nearly
forty fold. He goes on to say of the old Mad River road:
"That railroad has opened the thoroughfare betAveen the most southern
extreme of Lake Erie and the most proximate point of the Ohio