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
Through our galleries. Our museum is set up so it is literally a walk through time. You come to the museum. It is at the end of the ice age. We talk about the first Indigenous Peoples who lived here in michigan and go to the end of the 20th century. We are standing in our exhibit that we call the first peoples. It talks about the Indigenous People who lived in michigan for thousands of years before the arrival of europeans. It is one we just recently renovated. The focal point of this exhibition first is this gigantic mural we have here that is painted. It shows the story of the anishinaabe people through four seasons. The big picture that we want to convey in this is what an advanced civilization the anishinaabe had before european arrival. They had very sophisticated social structures but it was just a little different than the western civilization. They chose to live off of the land and not try to control the land. They engaged spent a lot of their time really working in harmony wit
And 50 years ago, june 22, 1969, there was a fire on the Cuyahoga River at the end of navigation, a couple of miles south of here, end of navigation meeting boats meaning boats could not go farther upstream. This is where a couple of low Railroad Trestles blocked some debris that was coming downstream, which was not unusual, the piers from the bridge, they got soaked in oil, which was also not unusual, and then there was a spark perhaps from a passing train. We do not know exactly what set off the fire. The trestles burned for half a minute half an hour. They were doused by both a fire boat and from crews on the shore. Photographers did not get there in time to get a picture of the cuyahoga burning that time, but eventually news about the cuyahoga catching fire became international in scope. So this is what we are celebrating, the 50th anniversary of the cuyahoga no longer catching fire. Steve but there had been previous fires along the cuyahoga. This was not the first, correct . David
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