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Samuel Drew, a Revolutionary soldier, came to Margaretta about 1820, and resided here several years. He was a pensioner and died some years since. Cap- tain Andrus Parker was in the army at the taking of Burgoyne.
Thomas Caswell served in the war of 1812, on the frontier, in the State of New York, and died here in 1853.
Henry Jones served one campaign in the State of New York, and died here a few years ago.
John L. Wilner, who was an early resident here, was in the army at Fort Meigs in the war of 1812.
Elihu Parker served eighteen months at the close of the war of 1812. He still resides here.
FIRST EVENTS.
Robert Snow, son of D. P. Snow, was doubtless the first white child born in Margaretta. He was born in 1811. Charles Butler was born the same year, but whether here or in Canada we cannot say.
The first marriage in the township was that of Charles Butler and Clarissa, daughter of Capt. An- drus Parker. The ceremony was performed by Wil- liam Richey, Esq., of Groton township, in the spring of 1816. The second marriage was that of Dan Put- nam and Louisa Ensign, of Groton, at which cere- mony the same justice officiated.
The first deaths were those murdered by the Indi- ans, June 2, 1813, a particular account of which has
been given. The second death was that of Mrs. Butler who never recovered from the effects of her captivity by the Indiaus. We do not know whether or not there were any religious services at these burials.
The first house was built of logs at the head of Cold creek, section three, by D. P. Snow, in 1810.
The first stone building was built by Thomas S. Thomas, near the head of Cold creek, about 1822, and is now, 1879, occupied by V. Palmer. It was a small dwelling house.
A weekly mail route, from Sandusky City to Lower Sandusky, was established in 1825. The mail was carried on horse back, by Cyrus W. Marsh, and Sam B. Carpenter was the first postmaster in Margaretta. Carpenter was succeeded by Elisha A. Hubbard (now of Newport Center, Johnson county, Iowa, ) in 1827. He held the office until 1842, and was followed by Daniel P. Russel. The name of the first post office established was Margaretta, and was changed to Cas- talia, in 1842. In 1810, Cleveland was the nearest post office. In 1811, one was established at Blooming- ville, Oxford township, which was the nearest one until 1825. T. C. Adams is the present incumbent, May, 1879.
In 1811, Maj. Fred. Falley, (who had been trading for five years at different points on the Reserve), got his effects together at Cold creek, and started the first store in Margaretta, trading principally with the Indians. He soon after went into the service of the government as a contractor to furnish supplies for the army. In 1816 and 1817 the village of Venice was built on the Bay shore, at the mouth of Cold creek, and several stores were established. About 1824, Chapmau & Amsden, of Bellevue, opened a small store at Cold creek, and operated for a year or two. In 1834, Burr Higgins commenced trading here, and continued until 1855, when he sold out to Samuel Ainslie, who brought in a good stock and did a re- spectable business.
In 1839, Davidson, Hadley & Company opened a small store at Cold Creek, and did business about a year. Russell & Burton, H. and F. Vandercook, Cleveland & Rice, Robert Whitney, Harley Long, J. W. Barnum, William Bardshar, W. C. Baker, William Grove, and others, too uumerous to mention, have done business at Cold Creek.
Numerous drinking saloons have been doing a thriving business from an early day, of which our graveyard has made a record.
Very little money was in circulation in the early settlement of the country. Skins and furs were the principal articles of exchange. The community here, as well as elsewhere, suffered by the worthless banks chartered by the State after the war, and the. large amount of shinplasters (shilling bills) issued by irre- sponsible parties. Change was made by cutting a dollar into ten shilling pieces, to some extent. From 1812 to '15, the people in this section of the country had no saw or grist mill, and the meal had to be made
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by pounding the corn in mortars, or grating it. They had a hand shell mill at Cold Creek, which was used in General Wayne's army for grinding corn. From 1821 to '26, the inhabitants suffered for want of a market for their produce. Grain would not buy goods at any price, so that it was with the greatest difficulty that the settlers could clothe their families. Deer skins were used for men and boys, and he that had a whole suit of cloth was far in advance of the times. Ladies then thought it no disgrace to spin wool and flax, and home-made goods were the order of the day. In 1821, Captain Andrus Parker put up twenty bar- rels of pork and shipped it to Montreal, for which he never received one dime. Moses Kimball, Esq., who resided in Venice, in 1818, and was afterward, for several years, auditor of Huron county, in 1821 invested one thousand dollars in pork and took it to Montreal, and in five years afterward recovered one hundred and thirty dollars, after paying an attorney sixty of it for collection.
The emigration which commenced in 1825, and the sale of the government lands to the southwest of us, brought some money into the country, and made a limited demand for the surplus produce, but until the opening of the Erie canal, there was no regular cash market. Goods were enormously high : coffee, forty cents per pound ; a common wooden pail, one dollar and a half, and shirting, fifty cents per yard.
ORGANIZATION.
Margaretta was organized with Danbury (north of the bay), December, 1815, by Nathan Cummings, Frederick Falley and Bildad Adams, commissioners of Huron county. Danbury had a separate organization two years after. The first election for township offi- cers was held in December, 1815, at a house occupied by a man named Hughes, and situated one-half mile above Venice on the north side of the race, but we have no record of the officers elected then. The elec- tion for justice of the peace was contested, set aside, and none was elected and qualified until 181%, when J. Hughes was. We do not know the number of votes cast at the election, nor any of the official acts of the first magistrate. The following are some of the early magistrates and the dates of their commis- sions: M. Whitman, June 24, 1819; Alex. M. Porter, July 27, 1822; A. B. Youngs, August, 1822; Charles Lindsley, May, 1823; Harvey Fowler, April, 1824; Pitts Brown, May, 1825; Harvey Fowler, April, 1822; Henry Cole, May, 1828; Joseph Wilson, February ?, 1830; Charles Lindsley, March, 1830; Wm. McCart- ney, February, 1833; Harley Long, January, 1833. Present officers, 1879: Daniel Loverin and William Jones, justices of the peace; L. Billings, W. H. Neill and Charles Heimlich, trustees; L. M. Coughenour, clerk: Henry Moore, treasurer; W. H. H. Shurran, assessor.
CHURCHES.
We are unable to say when or where the first reli- gions meeting was held, or who preached the first
sermon. The first religious organization was a Meth- odist.class, on Muscash, in the northwest corner of the township. In January, 1819, a Presbyterian church was organized in Margaretta and Groton by Rev. John Seward, who had no stated ministry. Its principal members soon removed from this vicinity, and in a few years it became extinct. A small Bap- tist society was organized in or about the year 1823. Its members resided in Margaretta, Groton and Oxford. This was the only church. which sustained regular Sabbath worship in the township for several years. It had preaching only a part of the time. Deacon Richard Falley was the most prominent mem- ber, and it was mainly through his persevering efforts. that the church was sustained through years of dark- ness, shedding its moral influence upon all around. After a few years its members became scattered, Dea- con Falley's health failed, and after his decease most of the remaining members united with the Congrega- tional Church, which was organized about the year 1835, by Rev. Hiram Smith, from Westfield, Massa- chusetts. The first members were Mr. and Mrs. J. Fowler, Mr. and Mrs. Plinny Brown, Mrs. Amanda Hubbard, Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Fowler. Revs. Brown, Keep, Miller, senior and junior, were among those who first preached to this society, but the Rev. Hiram Smith was with them a good portion of the time up to 1865, and his influence was widely felt, for he had the respect and love of all, without regard to sect or class. He was ever ready to share their joys and sor- rows, and by his self-sacrificing spirit endeared him- self to every one. A pure and conscientious chris- tian, his everyday life consistent with his calling, he will never be forgotten by any who knew him. He has retired from the ministry, and now resides in Hillsdale, Michigan. This society occupied the stone chapel for quite a time and afterwards their present church, both of them located in Castalia.
Rev. W. S. Sprague is the present pastor. About 1850, two years after the building of the present Con- gregational church, the Methodists built a frame church at Castalia, which flourished for a short time, but run down gradually and no regular services were hield after 1860. Recently it has been sold and converted to other uses.
CASTALIA UNIVERSALIST CHURCH.
This society was organized by the Rev. George R. Brown, October 12, 1862, with the following mem- bers: Mrs. Thomas Caswell, Mrs. B. H. Rogers, Mrs. J. D. McKim, Mrs. E. D. Graves, Mrs. George White, Mrs. Elizabeth White, Mrs. Ann Graves, Mrs. Stephen Rogers, Daniel Rice, Leonard Drake, Stephen Rogers, R. H. Rogers, Mrs. Daniel Rice, Mr. and Mrs. Daniel MeDougal. The following officers were chosen: D. MeDougal, S. Rogers and D. Rice, trus- tees; Mrs. George White, treasurer; R. H. Rogers, clerk: In 1867, the society erected a neat and com- modious church building, on land donated by Wil- Graves, on lot thirty-one, section one, at a cost of
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four thousand two hundred dollars, and was ded- icated February 2, 1868, at which time sufficient funds were raised to clear the church of debt. Mr. Brown was pastor at this time and for several years afterward, and was their. pastor at the time of his death, some years since. B. F. Eaton was the pastor in 1878.
CHURCH OF OUR REDEEMER, AT VENICE.
The first permanent organization of a parish, was an election. of wardens and vestrymen in June, 1866. At a meeting of the vestry, July 5, 1866, the Rev. Charles Ogden was invited and accepted a call to take charge of the parish. On the 17th day of July, 1866, ground was broken for the present stone edifice, and the corner stone laid by the Rev. Dr. Bronson, assisted by the Rev. Charles Ogden, on the 21st day of August, 1866. The parish duly organized was incorporated under the State laws, on the 13th day of October, 1866, and admitted in nnion with the diocese of Ohio.
The Church of Our Redeemer was consecrated, by the Right Rev. Bishop McIlvaine, June 3, 1867. The church was erected by Russell H. Heywood, as a memorial to the departed of his family, at a cost, in- cluding the iron fence, of twelve thousand dollars, which, with a glebe of fifteen acres, was deeded to the wardens and vestry on the day of the consecration. On the 8th day of July, 1867, the Rev. Charles Ogden resigned his position as rector, and is now in the diocese of Vermont. The Rev. George S. Chase accepted a call to the rectorship of the parish Septem- ber 22, 1867, and resigned, on account of his health, November 15, 1868, and is now Warden of the theo- ligical seminary at Fairabault, Minnesota. On the 5th day of October. 1874, the Rev. George Bosley accepted a call as rector, and on the 29th day of July, 1876, resigned. He now has charge of a parish at Bellefontaine, Ohio, The church has been open for services on all Sundays since its erection, either by clergymen or lay readers, until July, 1878. There have been one hundred and sixty-four baptisms since the organization of the church, and fifty-six confirmed, several of whom have gone to their final account, and many removed to other parishes.
SCHOOLS.
The first school house was built of logs. on lot twenty, second section, at the junction of the Venice and Cold creek roads, in the fall of 1818, by Captain Andrus Parker and some of his neighbors. The first school was taught by Thomas Mccullough, at fifteen dollars per month, in the winter of 1818-19, and he was paid by those who patronized the school. There were twenty-five scholars that winter. Schools were continued here only about two years. In the fall of 1821, Rev. Alvin Coe, who had previously collected a number of Indian children at Greenfield and given them instruction in the English language, moved his
school to Venice, because he could get a more suita -. ble building there, and he continued the school about six months, teaching all the children in the vicinity that came to him for instruction.
In 1826, a log school house was built one hundred rods south of the present school house in sub-district number two, and a school was taught in it. generally two terms in a year, until one was built on the present site in 1835.
Some of the best district schools that have ever been taught in the township were taught in those days. The following are a few of the first teachers: A. W. O. Brion, of Maine; Jonathan Fuller, James F. Wilson, and John W. Falley, the two latter since quite successful physicians.
In districting the township under the first school law, the first and second sections were made the first district; the third and fourth the second; Venice the third, and Muscash (the northwest corner of the township), the fourth. There are now eleven sub- districts and four fractional, in ten of which good, substantial, commodious, and comfortable school buildings have been built. In one fractional district the house is in Groton. Good schools are now taught nine months in the year. The enumeration in the township in 1878 was eight hundred and seventeen; the attendance five hundred and four. Attendance at the high school, forty-eight. In May, 1812, the voters of the township decided by ballot to establish a central high school, and use the second story of the school building in sub-district number eight (Cas- talia) for that purpose. The board of education had built this large school building the year before, which is a credit to the township, and is universally ap- proved of now, though it met with some opposition at the time. Four-month sessions are held every winter, which have proved of great benefit to the young men and ladies of this place.
SOCIETIES.
About the year 1832, a temperance society was or- ganized. The meeting was addressed by Revs. E. Conger and L. B. Gurley, after which abont fifteen signed the pledge, and organized the first temperance society in Margaretta. Since then, several other temperance organizations have been effected: one in 1859, and two others since.
Much good has been done by the societies, for they began with fifteen members, and now the majority of the people in the township are friends of temperance.
Margaretta Grange No. 488, P. of H , was organized January 30, 1823, with twenty-seven charter members. The following were the first officers: W. W. Miller, W. M .; E. D. Graves, O .: N. E. Prentice, L .; M. F. Brown, S .; John White, A. S .; J. B. Witter, C .; E. D. White, treasurer; R. F. Fowler, secretary; S. H. Rogers, G. K .; Mrs. E. D. Graves, Ceres; Ellen White, Pomona; Mrs. W. W. Miller, Flora; Mrs. L. S. Graves, L. A. S. The Grange is still flourishing with the following members as officers: J. B. Wit-
* Communicated by R. H. Heywood.
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ter, M .; G. Ray. O .; F. Nelson Prentice, L .; J. C. Rogers, S .; W. H. Neill, A. S. : Mrs. H. Weyraugh, C .: O. Ransom, treasurer; J. Atwater. secretary: D. Witter, G. K.
PHYSICIANS.
Dr. Hartshorn settled in Margaretta, at Venice, in the year 1817, and died in Sandusky county some years since. Dr. Samuel Carpenter settled in Castalia in 1824, and was the second physician in Margaretta. He left the place, and died a few years ago, and his body was brought here for interment. M. J. Mors- man located at Castalia in 1836, and is now a resident of Iowa City, Iowa. James F. Wilson was a very popular and successful physician here for many years. Dr. R. C. Luce has been here a long time. and has had a large practice, and is still here. J. D. McKim was very successful and popular: he died here. W. F. Story occupies his old place, and is considered a very skillful practitioner, and though reticent, is highly esteemed as a citizen.
VILLAGES.
The village of Venice is situated on the south shore of Sandusky Bay, one mile west of the east line of Margaretta. It was laid out by Major Fred. Falley, and some of its lots sold at a high price in the winter of 1816 and '17. Improvements were immediately commenced and pushed forward vigorously. Two large warehouses, two commodious public houses, stores, shops and dwellings were erected, and, in a few months, several hundred inhabitants had col- lected from the east and south to participate in the building of the village. The most prominent early settlers of Venice were Major Oliver Barrett, from New York: Anthony Banning, from Mt. Vernon, Ohio; Charles Lindsley, and a man by the name of Smith, were engaged in mercantile business; another merchant, by the name of Reed: three brothers Went- worth, two Ackins, and many others,-mechanics, transient persons and settlers whose names are for- gotten.
During the summer of 1812, the place was built and the mill race commenced, to bring Cold creek to the present site of Venice mills. The summer of 1818 was quite sickly, and the people, being unac- climated, it proved disastrous to the further progress of the village. Major Barrett, Dr. Wentworth and others died, many left the place as best they could, and it became almost a deserted town, and did not revive until the building of the mill in 1824. It is now widely known from the flouring-mills located there.
In 1836, the village of Castalia, at the head of Cold creek, was laid out by Davidson, Hadley & Co., and had a gradual growth for about twenty years, after which time it retrograded to some extent, and now there is but one store there but that does a large busi- ness. T. C. Adams & Bro. is the firm. In its palmiest days, there were four stores, two groceries,
one drug shop, two churches and a daily mail-now there are two mails per day.
INDUSTRIAL PURSUITS.
Cold creek affords, in some respects, superior water power. It is not much affected by floods and drouths, being fed by subterraneous fountains. There is a fall of fifty-seven feet from its head to the bay, forty- nine feet being used by the three mills which it it propels. In November, 1810, D. P. Snow put a corn grist mill in operation near the head of Cold Creek, a few rods above where the present upper dam is. It ground corn until August, 1812, when the settlers were driven away by Hull's surrender, and it was not used afterward. This, though a grist mill, which secured him his land, by contract with the proprietor of the township, would now be called a frail structure. It was built of logs, and the burrs were made from rocks found near by, by Linus Ensign, a citizen of Groton. Mr. Daniel Putnam says it would grind from ten to fifteen bushels in twenty-four hours. We suppose this to have been the first grist mill on the Fire-lands.
In 1811, Major Frederick Fally raised the frame of a saw mill. Its site is now the pond at the head of the Venice mill-race. He was prevented from com- pleting it by the war.
In 1815, this mill site was purchased by Eli Hunt, who put a saw mill in operation, with a run of stone in one corner, with an apparatus for bolting. We believe this to have been the first saw mill in the western part of the Fire-lands, and furnished the first lumber for this region.
In the early part of 1819, Joshua Pettingill put in operation a grist mill on Cold creek three-quarters of a mile below its head. This mill was quite an advance upon any that had been started before it, and in very dry seasons it did most of the grinding that was done on the Fire-lands. The power was a screw wheel, and it had a head of only three feet. It was in ope- ration about ten years.
In the fall of 1822, Daniel Mack erected a saw mill a few rods below where Snow's mill had been, with one run of stone in the corner for grinding. About 1824, he built a substantial grist mill, with two run of stone. Some time after his death, February 12, 1826, the mill passed into the hands of a German by the name of Weber, in or about the year 1827. After Mr. Mack built his mill, years of litigation followed, - between him, and others, and Mr. Pettingill, for the latter's damaging them by flowing the back water upon them, which was terminated in 1832 by the whole mill interest, and five hundred and ten acres of land, passing into the hands of Burr Higgins. Mr. Higgins, having the entire control of the water power, improved his mill, which did the work of a good cus- tom mill until about 1848. In 1835, Higgins sold his entire interest to Davidson, Hadley & Company, who held it until 1838, when the whole property passed into the hands of Burr Higgins and Marshall
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Burton, who built a stone mill below the lower spring. and condueted this water to it. The stone mill was built in 1839, and had four run of stone. It did a good business up to the time Mr. Hoyt honght it, in 1864, and changed hands several times. Before the railroad was built, the flour from this mill was boated down the mill-race to the bay.
In 1848 and '49, a cotton factory was built at Castalia, and put in operation for two or three years,
In May or June, 1864, John Hoyt bought the mill property at Castalia, and organized a stock company for the manufacture of paper. Castalia Paper Com- pany was the name of the company, and Mr. Hoyt himself was the chief stoekholder and the manager of the concern, He moved the old cotton factory down to the stone flouring mill, and built some additions to them, and in about a year had in operation a first class mill for the manufacture printing of paper. It had a capacity of about a ton per day, and run continu- ously, day and night, until July, 1874, when it burned, and was not rebuilt.
In the spring of 1875, the water power was pur- chased for eight thousand dollars, by some of the lead- ing and most enterprising citizens of Margaretta, namely: C. Caswell, J. B. Witter, J. G. Snowden, E. D. White, S. H. Rogers, Philip Erbe, T. C. Adams, and J. D. Chamberlin (the latter formerly operated the old flouring mill), and they incorporated the Cas- talia Milling Company, and proceeded immediately to build a first elass flouring mill, on the most modern approved plan. The building is a substantial frame, built on the foundation of the old stone mill, three full stories, besides basement and attie. The capacity of the mill is one hundred and twenty-five barrels per day. They keep it running night and day, and are usually behind in their orders. Since the mill was built the company have put up an elevator, with a ca- pacity for storing twenty thousand bushels of wheat, and fitted up with all the modern appliances for con- venienee in handling grain.
In February, 1818, Eli Hunt sold his interest in the mill west of Venice, to Samuel H. Smith, of Knox county, Ohio, and in 1821, Smith purchased the mill seat at Venice, with its improvements, and built a grist mill there with two run of stone. In 1822 and 1823, and 1828 and 1829, his whole interest was transferred to E. Jesup, who occupied it until 1831. In the same year H. Fowler built a saw mill on Pike creek, which was in operation up to about 1866, when it was abandoned and the dam torn down.
The old mill at Venice, with Cold creek from the bay to Pettingill's mill, with five hundred acres of land, was purchased on June 14, 1831, by Russell H. Heywood, of Buffalo, New York, The winter of 1831-2 was the coldest known in Northern Ohio, and all the mill streams, except Cold creek. were frozen up. Southern Michigan as well as Northern Ohio were dependent on mill on the this stream for their grinding. In January, 1832, the Venice flouring
mill was begun, and completed June 1, 1833, with three run of French burrs for merchants' and three for custom work. The completion of the mill es- tablished the first permanent eash market for wheat on the Fire-lands. With much labor from January to June, enough wheat was got together from Huron, Richland. Wayne, Holmes. Knox, Seneca and other counties, to make one thousand barrels of flour before harvest. Tell a farmer in those days that seventy-five eents cash per bushel would be paid for wheat at Venice, and he would reply with a look of incredulity, "You don't catch me there; if four loads of wheat are carried there, the price will be put down to three shillings, payable in goods at whatever price the seller chooses to put on them." The first one hundred barrels of flour in the merchant work was put into extra new barrels painted with China Ver- million, taken on a new scow to a new vessel, shipped to Buffalo, and put on a new canal boat, and was all the freight the vessel and canal boat had (at that time nearly all the freighting was merchandise and emi- grants to the West). It went to New York as clean as when it left the mill. On its arrival in New York, hundreds of people went to see it, the first shipment of extra flour from Ohio, and some predicted that, in time, Ohio might furnish them with several thon- sand barrels of flour a year. The one hundred bar- rels were distributed to as many different persons, at one dollar per barrel above the best Genesee flour made at Rochester. The harvest was unusually early, and the season very dry that year, and the mill was put to its ntmost capacity for home consumption until after the fall rains, many bringing their grists one hundred miles. In one instance, two men left Han- eoek county on Monday morning, and brought up at Venice the next Sunday, in search of a mill that had water to grind. On that day Mr. Heywood had as- sembled all his men in the mill to have religious ser- vice eondueted by a minister from Norwalk, and noticed two men come in with whips in their hands. travel worn and dusty in appearance, who took part in the services, After the conclusion of the service, they inquired for the proprietor, who was pointed out to them, and they told this story: "We left home last Monday morning, leaving all behind us sick and ut- terly destitute of flour, and traveled ever since to find a mill that had sufficient water to grind our wheat, We have fifteen bushels apiece. How soon can you grind it forus?" Turning to the clergyman, Mr. Her- wood said: "What shall I do?" he replied: "Grind it for them as soon as possible," which he did, and they were soon on their way home rejoicing. For three weeks, so great was the demand upon him that he could not shut down his mills Sundays, which is and always has been his enstom.
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