Radiators inside the museum burst in December 2022 and soaked numerous exhibits of northwest Ohio history. Historical society is asking for donations for repairs.
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1890 - A newly rebuilt Put-in-Bay House on South Bass Island reopens on the site of the previous hotel that was leveled by flames.
1902 - A mob of mourners converges on Forest Cemetery as six of seven of the young people who lost their lives in a boating tragedy on the Maumee River are laid to rest. The Toledo Bee reports as many as 2,000 morbid curiosity seekers packed the city graveyard and trampled the sacred ground, picked flowers and gathered other relics . The article stated they almost turned it into a circus atmosphere with laughing and disrespect. The Bee called the crowd disgusting .