Historic Walking Tours

225-231 West Water Street

In 1835 Zalmon Wildman and Isaac Mills, founders of Sandusky, built three brick stores each three stories high on Water Lots 68, 69, and 70. Continue Reading >

The pier on the east side of what is now known as the Jackson Street Pier has always been known as the Cedar Point Pier.

Starting in the 1870s, it has been used for boats carrying guests to Cedar Point and then back to Sandusky. Over the decades a number of boats have used the pier. The most famous—and beloved by Sanduskians—was the steamer G.A. Boeckling. Continue Reading >

109 - 101 West Water Street

The neighboring Hubbard’s Block was designed by the well-known architect, Sheldon Smith, whose Commercial College and School of Design occupied the third floor. Continue Reading >

To the south of Gray Drug, the two-story Colmar Building was constructed in the late 1920s for retail tenants.

On March 27-28, 1929, the J.C. Penney Company opened its first Sandusky store in part of this building, with an estimated 5,000 people attending the opening. Continue Reading >

Jackson Street Pier

From the seawall on Jackson Street Pier the coal docks are clearly visible to the left (NW) of the pier. Sandusky has one of the finest and best protected harbors on the Great Lakes. Continue Reading >