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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1WGT_perry-center-historical_Fostoria-OH.html
1876 Perry Center 1946
(map on front, text on reverse)
When the state of Ohio was chartered, it mandated that every township set aside land for schools.The result was the classic one room schoolhouses that were built in the mid to last half of t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1W2K_risdon-square-historical_Fostoria-OH.html
This monument marks the square of the village of Risdon founded in 1832. The land was owned by John Gorsuch, who settled here with his family in a clearing along the Portage River in 1831. He had a plat of the area made by David Risdon, Seneca Cou…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMRM9_fostoria-ohio_Fostoria-OH.html
Fostoria's glass era began when natural gas was discovered in the mid 1880s at "Godsend," five miles west of town. Aided by former governor Charles Foster, Fostoria attracted more than a dozen companies that manufactured utilitarian and decorative…