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Toledo Time Travels is your source for the Toledo story—past, present, and future. We host engaging conversations about local history venues, long heard about but rarely seen spaces, Glass City artifacts, and historical preservation.
1813: On the bloodiest day of the first siege of Fort Meigs, nearly 600 men are lost to a combined force of British regulars, Canadian militia, and Native American warriors. Despite this major loss to the Americans however, many Native Americans ...…
1966: WDHO (now WNWO) TV channel 24 in Toledo (ABC) begins broadcasting For more Toledo history, visit www.holytoledohistory.com.…
1813: British artillery opened fire on Fort Meigs in what would become known as the First Siege of Fort Meigs. The bombardment carried on for five days, but the Americans within the fort held on until reinforcements, in the form of 1,200 Kentucky ...…
1974: Eric Kripke, American television writer, director and producer (Supernatural) is born in Toledo. 1930: Directors of the Libbey-Owens Glass Company and Edward Ford Plate Glass Company meet in New York to approve their merger into the ...…
1833: the Erie and Kalamazoo Railroad was chartered in the Territory of Michigan to run from the former Port Lawrence, Michigan (now Toledo), northwest to Adrian on the River Raisin. For more Toledo history, visit www.holytoledohistory.com.…
1901: After the success of its first exhibit in a rented room in the Gardner Building in January, the Toledo Museum of Art is officially founded. Today, what started out with 120 members and a collection consisting of two paintings is considered one ...…
1854: Edward Drummond Libbey is born in Chelsea, Massachusetts. Regarded as the father of the glass industry in Toledo, Libbey moved his father's glass company to Toledo and renamed it the Libbey Glass Company in 1888. For more Toledo history, ...…
1944: Dennis Russell Davies, American conductor and composer is born in Toledo. For more Toledo history, visit www.holytoledohistory.com.…
1910: Pope Pius X erects the Toledo Diocese in territory taken from the Diocese of Cleveland. For more Toledo history, visit www.holytoledohistory.com.…
1867: The Ohio Legislature creates a full-time police force in Toledo and the city marshals are released from their duties. 1897: Samuel "Golden Rule" Jones is elected Mayor of Toledo. 1957: The lake freighter "Champlain" is torn loose from its ...…
1908: The 524-foot lake freighter Fred G. Hartwell is launched at Toledo Shipbuilding Company. The 514 feet long, 58 feet wide steel freighter was originally owned by Mutual Steamship Co. of Duluth, Minnesota. Mutual sold the vessel in 1915 to ...…
1957: Tragedy strikes at Fort Miami Racetrack in Maumee at the Lucas County Fairgrounds, when fire races through a barn near Key Street killing 27 racehorses. More than 60 horses were turned loose and created havoc as many panicked and ran out onto ...…
1934: A strike is called by the secretly organized Automobile Workers Federal Union Local 18384, American Federation of Labor, which became the United Auto Workers (UAW) Local 12, against the Electric Auto-Lite company of Toledo. Anti-unionism, ...…
1908: John Willys bought the Overland Automotive Division of Standard Wheel Company in Toledo. In 1912 he renamed it Willys–Overland Motor Company. From 1912 to 1918, Willys was the second-largest producer of automobiles in the United States ...…
1919: Thousands of supporters of Eugene V. Debs stormed Memorial Hall where the controversial Socialist leader was to speak. His speech was banned by city officials and a riot followed. The clash ended with 75 protesters going to jail. 1921: ...…
1915: Selma Rubin, American environmental activist (Earth Day co-founder) is born in Toledo. For more Toledo history, visit www.holytoledohistory.com…
1913: Massive flooding spread across the state of Ohio. Thousands of people are left homeless and more than 400 people perish. The Sandusky River at Tiffin came out of its banks, surging through town, carrying away homes and businesses. Nineteen ...…
1957: Teresa Ganzel, actress (Teachers Only, Duck Factory) is born in Toledo. For more Toledo history, visit www.holytoledohistory.com…
1888: Libbey officially breaks ground for a new glass factory in Toledo. Five months later, a special train of glassworkers and their families, together with 50 carloads of equipment, arrived in Toledo from Boston. The current Libbey glass factory ...…
1881: French actress Sarah Bernhardt, dubbed “Divine Sarah” by her worldwide legion of fans, makes her Toledo debut at the Wheeler Opera House. 1955: Gary Louris, American singer-songwriter and musician (Jayhawks) is born in ...…
1869: A public meeting is held at Hunker's Hall (on Summit, between Madison and Adams) to draft a constitution for the Toledo Woman Suffrage Association. Many local women helped carry the banner for legal and political equality for women in ...…
1869: Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton speak at a reception held at the Superior Street home of Israel and Olivia Hall. For more Toledo history, visit www.holytoledohistory.com…
1976: John Pezzin, a 46-year-old bowler from Perrysburg rolled 33 consecutive strikes last night in a sanctioned bowling league at Miracle Lanes. Pezzin rolled games of 259, 300 and 300 for an 859 series. For more Toledo history, visit ...…
1900: During a winter storm that ended on March 1st, 22" of snow fell at Toledo. This was the greatest storm total snowfall ever in Toledo history. 14" fell at Detroit and this storm also brought heavy snowfall (10" or more) at Chicago, Cleveland, ...…
1895: Michael Owens patents a glass-blowing machine. Just eight years later, Owens, a self-taught inventor, propels the glass industry into the mechanical age with the introduction of the world’s first completely automatic glass-forming ...…
1985: Stacy Lewis, American golfer (2011 ANA Inspiration and 2013 Women's British Open Champion) is born in Toledo. For more Toledo history, visit www.holytoledohistory.com…
1977: Kate Shindle, American actress, is born in Toledo. For more Toledo history, visit www.holytoledohistory.com…
1958: Anita Baker, American singer (Giving You the Best That I Got), is born in Toledo. For more Toledo history, visit www.holytoledohistory.com…
1978: Over a two-day period, the Blizzard of 1978 blows into Toledo as one of the greatest storms of the century for the Great Lakes and Ohio Valley. There were severe wind conditions with heavy snow for many hours. There was 12" of snow at Toledo ...…
1843: Edward Ford, the founder of the Edward Ford Plateglass Company which later merged with Libbey-Owens Sheet Glass Company to become Libbey-Owens-Ford in 1930, is born in Greenville, Indiana. Ford was the son of “Captain” John B Ford ...…
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