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6 unusual facts about Sandusky


Anthony Sadowski

Whether or not he opened an Indian trading post on the shores of Lake Erie and gave his name to Sandusky, Ohio, here lies the greatest Polish frontiersman of colonial times, an organizer of Amity Township in 1719, and founder of the Sandusky family in America.

Armand de La Richardie

These had already in 1740, owing to a bloody feud with the Detroit Ottawas and to the reluctance, if not refusal, of Governor Beauharnais to let the Hurons remove to Montreal, sullenly left Detroit and settled at "Little Lake" (now Rondeau Harbour) near Sandusky.

Challenge Park

Cedar Point#Challenge Park, an area that features the parks upcharge attractions at Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio

John Kaney

==Biography== Kaney was born on December 5, 1869 in Sandusky, Wisconsin.

Michael Levadoux

After the death of Dufaux, M. Levadoux had frequent occasion to minister to the spiritual wants of the Native Americans and of other scattered Catholics from Sandusky and Mackinaw to Fort Wayne.

Sandusky, Michigan

WDCQ channel 19 (PBS) from Bad Axe is also available over-the-air, but is not seen on Comcast.


Bert the Conqueror

There are also episodes which took place in a single amusement park, such as Cedar Point, in which Bert rode 4 roller coasters at Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio.

Bobby Poe

He managed and co-produced The Chartbusters, which featured his old bandmate Vernon Sandusky.

Gerry Sandusky

Sandusky is the son of John Sandusky, who played in the NFL for the Cleveland Browns and Green Bay Packers, and who later was an assistant coach for several NFL teams, and head coach for the Baltimore Colts.

Gus Dorais

During the summer of 1913, Dorais and his Notre Dame teammate Knute Rockne worked as lifeguards and busboys at Cedar Point Resort at Lake Erie in Sandusky, Ohio.

James R. Sherck

In 2002, he was elected judge of the Sandusky County, Ohio Common Pleas Court.

James T. Begg

-- A grammar fix may be needed here. -->Superintendent of public schools at Columbus Grove, Ohio 1905-1910, at Ironton, Ohio from 1910 to 1913, and at Sandusky, Ohio from 1913 to 1917.

John DeCamp

In 2012, he talked with the Ellis County Observer about how he linked Sandusky and Penn State child sex abuse scandal years prior.

Joseph M. Root

The Joseph Root House in Sandusky may have been a "safe house" on the Underground Railroad, and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

KIXI

In 2013, Sandusky Radio sold its radio holdings in Seattle and Phoenix, Arizona to Hubbard Broadcasting.

Ohio Department of Veterans Services

The Sandusky home opened in 1888 to care for veterans of the American Civil War.

Ohio State Route 47

In Bellefontaine, State Route 47 follows the path of different streets (even though neither are one-way) from Main Street and Sandusky Avenue to the intersection just north of Mary Rutan Hospital, about one-half mile north of the Main-Sandusky intersection.

Populated islands of the Great Lakes

Ferry service connects the community with Catawba Island, Kelleys Island, Port Clinton, and Sandusky, Ohio.

Rock Center with Brian Williams

It was Sandusky's first public interview since the abrupt firing of head coach Joe Paterno the week before, whom Sandusky had served as defensive coordinator under for decades with the Nittany Lions.

Sandusky County, Ohio

However, during the 2008 U.S. presidential election, 51% of the voters from Sandusky County supported Democratic candidate Barack Obama.

Scott May

Born in Sandusky, Ohio, Scott May played as a 6'7" forward for Bob Knight and the Indiana University Hoosiers from 1972-1976. He began with a rocky start after being declared academically ineligible his freshman year. As a sophomore he began to feel more confident in his studies, and the future championship nucleus of May, Kent Benson, Quinn Buckner and Bob Wilkerson started to gel. "Our group knew what we wanted.

Silas Ferrell House

Shiloh was platted in September 1852 around a rural station of the Sandusky and Mansfield Railroad at a three-way junction with the Cleveland and Columbus Railroad and with the road between the cities of Tiffin and Wooster.

Timothy Curley

During the grand jury investigation, Curley had testified as to his awareness of a 2002 incident that allegedly occurred in the Penn State football locker room, in which assistant coach Mike McQueary testified he witnessed Sandusky raping a 10-year-old boy.

Upper Sandusky, Ohio

In the 1962 romantic That Touch of Mink the lead character Cathy Timberlake, played by Doris Day, comes from Upper Sandusky.

Steve Meretzky, an Infocom interactive fiction author, chose the setting of Upper Sandusky at random and did not intend the town to be reflected in any particular light.

The courtroom scene of The Shawshank Redemption was filmed in the Wyandot County Courthouse in Upper Sandusky.

In the Infocom interactive fiction adventure, Leather Goddesses of Phobos, the hero (or heroine, depending on player choice) was from Upper Sandusky, Ohio and the first scene of the adventure game took place in a bar in the town.

WCRF-FM

WCRF-FM extends its signal by using two translators, each of which is separately owned, and four full-power repeaters: W210AR/Cochranton (89.9 FM), W221AR/Coshocton (92.1 FM), WVME/Meadville (91.9 FM), WVML/Millersburg (90.5 FM), WVMN/New Castle (90.1 FM), and WVMS/Sandusky (89.5 FM).

Willard, Ohio

The original name of Willard was Chicago, named for the junction of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's line to Sandusky (the Sandusky, Mansfield and Newark Railroad) and the branch west to Chicago (the Baltimore and Ohio and Chicago Railroad).

WMJZ-FM

In February 1998, David Essmaker received an offer to sell the stations to Sandusky, Ohio-based broadcaster Kent Smith that year.


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