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History Spotlight: The 1959 Flood
Larry Michaels and Krista Michaels
Columnists
Croghan Street, 1959 Flood.
It s 12:47 in the afternoon and a pump is at work, as water had risen up Croghan Street in Fremont in this photo of the 1959 flood, looking west from Front Street. At the left is the First National Bank (which would be razed a few years later), the Fremont Savings Bank, the Municipal Building, and St. Joseph s Catholic Church in the distance. (Submitted by Larry Michaels and Krista Michaels)
Wilhelm: Three street names unchanged despite controversy
Roy Wilhelm
A couple of decades ago, I wrote a little about a controversy involving the street with three names: Dickinson, Wilson and Cleveland.
The Dickinson portion of the street, named for Rodolphus Dickinson who served in congress and was a community leader in Lower Sandusky (now Fremont) and Ohio, was not part of the controversy.
The disagreement involved Wilson and Cleveland avenues. Grover Cleveland, of course, was the only person ever to serve two separate terms as president of the United States. He was the 22nd president, from 1885-1889, and the 24th president, from 1893-1897.