Leslie, Author at Erie County Historical Society

Joseph M. Root House

Leslie2023-07-26T15:40:34-04:00

231 East Adams Street

Joseph Root was a radical abolitionist, an attorney, mayor of Sandusky, and later a state senator and U.S. Congressman. Continue Reading >

Joseph M. Root HouseLeslie2023-07-26T15:40:34-04:00

Jury of Erie County Women Marker

Leslie2023-07-28T13:08:14-04:00

323 Columbus Avenue

One of the first Common Pleas Court juries to be composed of women in the United States was impaneled in Erie County on August 26, 1920, the day Tennessee became the last state necessary to ratify the nineteenth amendment to the United States which provided equal suffrage for women. Continue Reading >

Jury of Erie County Women MarkerLeslie2023-07-28T13:08:14-04:00

Kewpee

Leslie2023-07-28T15:06:12-04:00

Northeast Corner of Wayne and East Market Streets

Fast food came to downtown Sandusky in 1941. Continue Reading >

KewpeeLeslie2023-07-28T15:06:12-04:00

Kingsbury Building and Commercial Banking and Trust Company

Leslie2023-07-29T08:37:21-04:00

NE Corner of Columbus Avenue and W. Washington Row

William T. West and Abel Kingsbury West were brothers and business partners who built the West House Hotel. Continue Reading >

Kingsbury Building and Commercial Banking and Trust CompanyLeslie2023-07-29T08:37:21-04:00

Lasalle’s

Leslie2023-07-29T08:13:03-04:00

NW Corner Columbus Ave and W. Washington Row

In February of 1948, Toledo-based Lasalle and Koch Company, announced plans to build a department store on this corner, with demolition of part of the Sloane House beginning in September of that year. Continue Reading >

Lasalle’sLeslie2023-07-29T08:13:03-04:00

Laurence Cable Building

Leslie2023-07-28T15:24:29-04:00

121 West Water Street

Built in 1868, originally housed Lawrence Cable’s shoe store in one half of the building while the other half was occupied by a succession of grocery, hardware and other businesses over the years. Continue Reading >

Laurence Cable BuildingLeslie2023-07-28T15:24:29-04:00

Lea Block

Leslie2023-07-28T10:37:26-04:00

174 - 186 East Market Street

The southwest corner of Wayne and Market Streets is known as the Lea Block. Continue Reading >

Lea BlockLeslie2023-07-28T10:37:26-04:00

Lester Hubbard House

Leslie2023-07-28T15:43:36-04:00

134 East Adams Street

Sandusky businessman and banker Lester S. Hubbard built this lovely stone house at the southwest corner of Wayne and Adams Streets in 1852. Continue Reading >

Lester Hubbard HouseLeslie2023-07-28T15:43:36-04:00

Lucas Beecher House

Leslie2023-07-29T08:08:37-04:00

Attorney Lucas Beecher lived in this stone house at 215 W. Washington Row.

Beecher represented Benjamin Johnson, a fugitive slave who arrived in Sandusky during the 1830’s. Beecher won Johnson’s freedom by arguing that Johnson was not the property of the plaintiff because the purchase was made in Ohio, which was a free state. Johnson then became a free resident of Sandusky. Continue Reading >

Lucas Beecher HouseLeslie2023-07-29T08:08:37-04:00

Marsh Tavern

Leslie2023-07-29T07:02:42-04:00

100 East Water Street

Rush Sloane wrote that the earliest story he knew about the Underground Railroad in Sandusky was this one. Continue Reading >

Marsh TavernLeslie2023-07-29T07:02:42-04:00