Portage Path North Terminus

The North Terminus canoe landing of the Portage Path was located here along the Cuyahoga River. The 1797 survey of the trail began at a black cherry tree on the south bank of the river. If standing today, that tree ...

The Old Portage Path

The Old Portage, an eight-mile overland connection between the Cuyahoga and Tuscarawas Rivers, was the longer of two portages used by prehistoric peoples and early settlers. This was just one link in the water route between Lake Erie and the ...

Blacksmith Shop

Constructed in 1908

In the early days of Grand Canyon Village, the blacksmith shop served as a focal point of activity. The blacksmith was a highly skilled craftsman who welded the machinery, sharpened the tools, built water tanks, repaired the wagon ...

Ships That Carried the Name Savannah

A number of ships carried the name "Savannah." They included warships and merchant vessels. One of the most important was the SS Savannah, the first steamship to cross the Atlantic Ocean. Near the turn of the 20th century two steamers ...

Site of Civil War Hospital

This area was on a route used by Federal and Confederate troops as they made maneuvers between the Northern and Southern states. As they traveled thru, their sick and wounded were often left here for treatment. Dr. James Carson Weir, ...

John Pool

1630 - 1930

Here stood the first framed house in Sandy Bay (Rockport) built in 1700 by the second settler John Pool. He built the first sawmill, bridge and vessel in this settlement, and furnished the lumber used in building Long ...

Old First Parish Burying Ground

1630 - 1930

Original plot given by the first settler, Richard Tarr, who was buried here in 1732. Here lie most of the early settlers and many of the officers and soldiers of the French and Indian, Revolutionary and 1812 Wars.

Marker ...

Battle of Tompkinsville

First Kentucky Raid

At this site Confederate Colonel John Hunt Morgan began his famous "First Kentucky Raid." His objective was the destruction of the Union force in and around Tompkinsville. Riding through the night, Morgan and his raiders left Celina, Tennessee ...

The Old Parker Tavern - 1680

1630 - 1930

One-eighth of a mile to "the

simple home of an ordinary man,

not wealthy, not particularly

distinguished, but a type of the

God-fearing yeomanry .... as

Ephraim Parker left it, it

remains today an unchanged

relic in the ...

Peter and Robert Navarre

Erected by

Citizens of Toledo,

East Side Commercial Club,

and Ford Post, GAR

Peter and Robert

Navarre

U.S. Scouts

War of 1812

East Toledo

Historical Society, 1989

Marker is at the intersection of Navarre Avenue and White Street, on the right when traveling east on Navarre Avenue.

Courtesy hmdb.org