Be sure to check out these interesting and unusual historic sites and museums. While not in Erie County, they are close enough so that you can easily include them in your historic tour of the area.
HURON COUNTY
Norwalk (Firelands Historical Society Museum & Library)
OTTAWA COUNTY
Catawba Island (Catawba Island Historical Society)
Johnson’s Island (Johnson’s Island Confederate Officers Prison Cemetery, Friends and Descendants of Johnson’s Island Confederate Prison, Ohio Veterans Home-Museum)
Lakeside-Marblehead (The Keeper’s House, Marblehead Lighthouse, Marblehead Lighthouse Historical Society Museum, Lakeside Heritage Society Museum & Archives Center,)
Port Clinton (Ottawa County Historical Museum, Liberty Aviation Museum)
Put-in-Bay (South Bass Island Lighthouse, Perry’s Victory & International Peace Memorial, Lake Erie Island Historical Society Museum, Cooke Castle, Joseph DeRivera St. Jurgo Park)
SANDUSKY COUNTY
Clyde (General James B. McPherson Home & Clyde Historical Museum)
Fremont (Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Library & Museums, Sandusky County Historical Society)