Fort Meigs
29100 West River Road. Built as a supply depot and staging point for operations into Canada, and also to provide command of the rapids of...
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Tedd Long
- Dec 11, 2018
- 2 min
Samantha's Chair at Woodlawn
The Ludwig Memorial. Founded in 1876, Toledo's Woodlawn Cemetery epitomizes the rural cemetery movement. Today, historic Woodlawn is the...
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Tedd Long
- Dec 9, 2018
- 5 min
The Queen of Toledo's Crime of the Century
Whatever Happened to Wanda Urbaytis? Shortly after midnight on February 17, 1921, two postal employees pulled their mail truck onto the...
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Tedd Long
- Dec 8, 2018
- 3 min
Libbey Glass
The Heart of Innovation and Collaboration in the Glass City. When I'm asked to provide a local history tour, I always include a stop at...
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Tedd Long
- Dec 8, 2018
- 2 min
Westminster and St. John's College
Corner of Locust and Superior Streets. If this building could talk it would begin its story in 1870 when 41 charter members of...
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Tedd Long
- Dec 8, 2018
- 2 min
A Citizen without Reproach
John Gunckel and the Toledo Newsboys. One of my favorite people from Toledo history is John Gunckel. There is just so much to admire...
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Tedd Long
- Dec 8, 2018
- 1 min
A 90-year Toledo Tradition
WTOL's Lou Herbert Connects John Gunckel with the Old Newsboys...
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Tedd Long
- Nov 19, 2018
- 2 min
House of Four Pillars
322 East Broadway. Built in 1835, this home was transformed into a Greek Revival house by "itinerant column workers" in 1844. It's more...
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Tedd Long
- Nov 19, 2018
- 1 min
Harvard Elementary School
1949 Glendale Ave. In 1920, Toledo voters approved an $11 million bond for the expansion of the city school system. Community forums were...
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Tedd Long
- Nov 19, 2018
- 2 min
Dudley's Massacre
501 River Road. Dudley and his officers tried vainly to stop them but their efforts were futile and they joined in the fray. Once they...
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Tedd Long
- Nov 11, 2018
- 3 min
Casey-Pomeroy House
802 North Huron Street. The important thing to remember is how Libbey was recruited to Toledo before the Chamber of Commerce, the Port...
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Tedd Long
- Nov 11, 2018
- 3 min
Valentine Theatre
410 Adams Street. The story of how the Valentine Theatre was saved from the wrecking ball is a lesson in community action. Listed on the...
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Tedd Long
- Nov 7, 2018
- 1 min
Looking Down on Toledo History
Toledo History Tour from High Above Downtown Over the years I've given tours of downtown Toledo from the 28th floor of One SeaGate. In...
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Tedd Long
- Nov 6, 2018
- 1 min
I'll Meet You at the Bidwell!
If you were looking for a place to lodge in the Sylvania area in the 1800's, you would have been lucky to book a room at the Bidwell ....
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Tedd Long
- Nov 6, 2018
- 3 min
The Great Sylvania Fire of 1887
The fire wiped out 19 businesses along the west side of the block we now call Main Street between Maplewood and Monroe. As you browse...
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Tedd Long
- Nov 6, 2018
- 19 min
Where's That?
A trip back to Sylvania's past. This entry is a compilation of a series of articles Kathryn Keller wrote in the summer of 1977 for her...
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Tedd Long
- Nov 6, 2018
- 1 min
ReImagine Toledo: TEDxToledo
Tying Toledo's past to the future. This video is from TEDxToledo 2013. "We're all products of the time and the culture that we live in. ...
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Tedd Long
- Nov 4, 2018
- 1 min
Martin Luther King Bridge
Connecting Toledo with East Toledo via Cherry/Main Streets. The Martin Luther King Memorial Bridge (formerly Cherry Street Bridge) is a...
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Tedd Long
- Nov 4, 2018
- 1 min
Waite High School
301 Morrison Drive. You can't miss Waite High School as you look out to East Toledo from the top of One SeaGate. Waite High was named...
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Tedd Long
- Nov 4, 2018
- 2 min
The Weber Block
Front and Main. The corner of Front and Main in East Toledo is dominated by the 3 story brick commercial Weber Block, a Queen Anne style,...
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