This page last modified -- Wednesday, 26-Jan-2022 09:57:50 MST

Welcome to Our Website!

Erie County Court House in Sandusky Ohio, circa 1906

Welcome! Thanks for visiting the Erie County, Ohio, USGenWeb site. This site will serve as a gathering place for all who share common lines in Erie County. Have a good time while you're here. If you have any suggestions for the site, please email John Minneman.

About Erie County

County Seat: Sandusky
DATE CREATED: 1838
Parent Counties: Huron and Sandusky [At one point Kelley's Island was traded with Ottawa County for the Marblehead Penninsula]
Square Miles: 407
Named for: Native Amreican Tribe.

Neighbors

Weather Forecast

Click for Sandusky, Ohio Forecast

You are the visitor to this page since the counter was reset on May 2, 1999 when count was 25360! Please check back often!

This page last modified -- Wednesday, 26-Jan-2022 09:57:50 MST

All comments and feedback should be sent to John Minneman.

 

History

ERIE COUNTY was formed in 1838 from Huron and Sandusky counties. The surface to the eve seems nearly level, while in fact it forms a gentle slope from the south line of the county, where it has an elevation of about 150 feet above the lake, to the lake level. It has inexhaustible quarries of limestone and freestone. Read more…

Historical Collections of Ohio
By Henry Howe
Vol. I, Page 566
© 1888

 

 

 

Description

Historical Collections of Ohio is a work of history published in one volume in 1847 by Henry Howe (1816–1893). Howe had spent more than a year traveling across the state of Ohio making sketches, interviewing people, and collecting data.

Read more...

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia