Ohio History Journal

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THE EVOLUTION OF SANDUSKY COUNTY

THE EVOLUTION OF SANDUSKY COUNTY.

 

 

BASIL MEEK.

 

The limits of the following sketch will allow only, in brief

outline, some of the more important facts and incidents pertain-

ing to the governmental relations of that portion of country,

lying immediately south of Lake Erie which became Sandusky

County, and also of the greater area known as the Northwest

Territory holding the same in embryo, while it was passing to

its organic limits as a separate county.

A view of the country comprising the county, with its broad,

fertile fields, productive orchards, and sightly woodlands; its fair

capital city, with its great factories and suc-

cessful merchants; its thriving villages; its

churches and school houses, steam and

electric railways, telegraphs and telephones,

automobiles, improved   roads, rural mail

delivery and beautiful homes in city, village

and country, with its prosperous and happy

thousands of population, would scarcely

allow the thought, that but little over a

century ago all this region was in reality

a "howling wilderness" without the pres-

ence of a white man; yet such is veritable

history. And geologists inform us of what is still more

wonderful: That all this country of which we are writing was

once the bottom of a sea, believed to have been the Gulf of

Mexico extending thus far northward; that it finally emerged

from the depths of this sea and after it thus appeared above the

waters many thousands of years ago there came down upon it

from the north a mighty ice flood or glacier, which completely

enveloped it to a very great depth. That this great ice flood or

glacier brought with it hard and soft rocks, which in its tre-

mendous unmoving course, it crushed and pulverized, between

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