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HISTORY OF ERIE COUNTY
quarries, on the farm knoAvn as the "May Farm." W. T. West finished
his hotel so as to be ready .to entertain the visitors to the fair. The
State Fair did not pay.
The Presbyterian Church Avas finished September 25,, 1854.
The Clarion of October 21, 1854, advertises for sale the pictures-,pf
Sandusky at $6.00, Avhich Avere lithographs colored to SIIOAV the actual
color of the buildings.
On April 23, 1863, the Moss National Bank Avas organized.
During the Avar the town clock Avas put in the toAver of the Congre?
•rational Church, which then stood on the northeast corner of the courthouse
square. It AA'as taken doAvn and removed in the '70s at the time
of the erection of the present courthouse, and the Register made a great
protest at that time against selling the old clock for $75.00. What
AVMS finally done with the clock no one seems to knoAv at the present
time.
The old toAvn pump used to stand at the intersection of Market and
Columbus Avenue and Avas not taken down and the well filled in until
during the war. There Avas also a Avell at the foot of Columbus Avenue
which Avas filled up about the 13th of June, 1863, according to the
Register.
On March 16, 1864, Fred Douglass lectured at Norman Hall. He
Ava.s one of the most remarkable colored men of his time.
On September 13, 1864, Gen. Robert Schenck lectured at Norman
Hall.
On October 2, 1864, Governor Brough spoke on the public square.
In regard to the high cost of living the Register of June 2, 1864,
says editorially the IIOAV copper cent Avas not much needed since prices
advanced that they cannot IIOAV think of anything Avhich costs less than
half a dime.
On,November 27, 1866, the corner stone of the high school was laid
and in the corner stone Avas placed the school laAA's of that time, the
record of the Board of Education, the list of the teachers and pupils
and copies of the local papers.
FOITRTII OF JULY
The Clarion of June 26, 1822, contains the program of the first
Fourth of July celebration in Sandusky. The Declaration of Independence
Avas read by Col. S. M. LockAvood and Eleutheros Cooke Avas
the orator. The committee Avas S. M. LockAvood, C. F. Drake, F. Graham,
W. Anderson, W. Ilartsliorn and A. Root. -The Clarion of July,
12. 1828, contains a description of the celebration of the Fourth of
July with a public dinner at the Steamboat Hotel with toasts responded
to by various citizens and one by A. Root, "The proprietors of our
village. May the liberal policy they pursue conduce to the rapid groAvth
of Sandusky." The Sandusky Light Guards drilled.
In 1851, J. W. Taylor Avas the orator at the Fourth of July celebration.