The Secret History of Perrysburg and Northwest Ohio
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If most people might have a vague idea of where Toledo is, no one has heard of its suburb, Perrysburg. Nor should they have. To all appearances, it's just another middle-class suburb, built around an old main street. All the antique stores and tacky shops downtown, all the box stores and supermarkets out by the highway. A standard issue-suburb, memorable mainly because people from other parts of town tend to get lost amid its streets.
That's the surface of my little corner of Northwest Ohio. That's the unnoticeable place you'd pass on I-75 without a thought. Beneath the surface, however, lie deeper secrets...
Perrysburg
- Front Street Secrets
- The interesting subtext of a town center.
- The Necropolis
- Where the bodies are buried, literally.
- Fort Meigs
- Jumping off point for an invasion of Canada, and a last line of defense from the British.
Upriver
- Waterville and Roche Le Bleuffe
- A site of interesting transactions
- Grand Rapids and Ludwig's Mill
- Another old river town, see a working section of the old canal.
- Fallen Timbers Battlefield
- The place where the frontier was won.
Maumee City
- Downtown
- Charming, quiet streets and quaint shops, and a tornado.
- Side Cut and the Canal Locks
- A series of stone ruins marking the path of the canal, superhighway of the early 1800s.
- Wolcott House, Fort Miamis, and Dudley's Massacre.
- Follow General Wayne and Colonel Dudley along the riverbanks.
Downriver
- Islands in the Maumee
- As the river widens, a number of islands appear in the stream...
- Rossford's Lost Temple
- There used to be an Indian Mound in Rossford, a small industrial suburb across the river from Toledo.
Toledo
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