Cable partner traveling to toledo, ohio are coming up in the next hour we will speak with local authors about the citys history and learn how it came to be known as the glass capital of the world and in about 15 minutes the story of general mad Anthony Wayne and his role in the western expansion into ohio and later that toledo crash of 1931 we begin our special feature with the citys mayor. I think places like toledo are taken for granted and that this shame because there is such a wonderful history here. Over the years people of toledo have built things, known as the glass city because the first big break that this region got was when the glass pioneers moved from the east coast primarily boston to toledo in 1800s drawn by natural gas and also sand, edwin drummer baby brought his new England Glass Company to toledo and opened a plants on at street north toledo and its on the exact same site today p or that was 1988 and Owens Corning here downtown toledo a fortune 500 company invented
Expanders. Continue the tour and learn more about world war ii battalion eight stations. Unday at 6 00. N american artifacts tv and American History tv on the road, with the support of the buckeye broadband cable partners. Visit notable locations. In about 15 minutes, the battle of Fallen Timbers and its native american removal in the west. Later, we learn how toledo became known as the glass capital of the world. We begin with the toledo war. The toledo war goes back to 1787 and a northwest ordinance that established the area that by state andcame establish in order that started at the bottom of Lake Michigan iran east to lake erie. The strip of land formed was called the toledo strip. It was formed by two different surveys and that was a wedgeshaped strip five miles knows theat we indiana border today. Eight miles wide by the time it reaches lake erie. It is a pie shaped, 454 square mile edge that became the toledo strip that ohio and michigan really started to wrangle over. Point bo
We are standing in the glass pavilion. Thepurpose is to showcase glass collection, which is one of the significant parts of our collection. It is almost a third of the overall collection in toledo. It is one of the larger collections of glass in the u. S. The city has a wonderful history of glass in terms of the industrial contributions in toledo and in terms of what the museum presents. Edward libbey was our founder. The libby founder of Glass Company. It is through that he made his fortune. Because he and his wife had no children, he left that 14 to the museum. He also gave us a large glass collection and paintings collection. In 1854. Bbey was born the new england last company inch was a precursor started 1818. Forfather became the agent the new England Glass Company in 1872. He learned the glass business from his father. In 1883, his father passed away unexpectedly. He took over the business. Brought the libby Glass Company here to toledo. Sand was high silicon us available. The bu