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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 142 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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city, See also:port of entry, and the See also:county-seat of See also:Erie county, See also:Ohio, U.S.A., on Sandusky See also:Bay, an See also:arm of See also:Lake Erie, about 56 m. W. by S. of See also:Cleveland. Pop. (18go), 18,471; (190o), 19,664, of whom 4002 were See also:foreign-See also:born and 295 were negroes; (1910 U.S. See also:census) 19,989. Sandusky is served by the Lake See also:Shore & See also:Michigan See also:Southern, the Cleveland, See also:Cincinnati, See also:Chicago & See also:Saint See also:Louis, the See also:Pennsylvania, the See also:Baltimore & Ohio, and the Lake Erie & Western See also:railways, by several interurban electric lines, and by steamboats to the See also:principal ports on the See also:Great Lakes. Among the public buildings are the See also:United States See also:Government See also:Building and the See also:Court See also:House. The city has a See also:Carnegie library (1897), and is the seat of the Lake Laboratory (biological) of the Ohio See also:State University, and of the Ohio Soldiers' and Sailors' See also:Home (26 buildings). At the entrance to Sandusky Bay is See also:Cedar Point, with a See also:beach for bathing. At the mouth of the See also:harbour is See also:Johnson's See also:Island, where many Confederate prisoners were confined during the See also:Civil See also:War. A few See also:miles farther N. are several fishing resorts, among them Lakeside and Put-in-Bay; at the latter the United States government maintains a See also:fish hatchery, and out of the bay See also:Oliver See also:Hazard See also:Perry and his See also:fleet sailed on the See also:morning of the Loth of See also:September 1813 for the See also:Battle of Lake Erie. Sandusky has a See also:good harbour, which has been greatly improved by the United States government;and its See also:trade in See also:coal, See also:lumber, See also:stone, See also:cement, fish, See also:fruit, See also:ice, See also:wine and See also:beer is extensive; in 1908 the value of its exports, chiefly to See also:Canada, was $580,191 and the value of its imports $57,762. The value of its factory products increased from $2,833,506 in 1900 to $4,878,563 in 1905, or 72.2 %.

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English traders were at Sandusky as See also:early as 1749, and by 1763 a fort had been erected; but on the 16th of May of that See also:year, during the See also:Pontiac rising, the See also:Wyandot See also:Indians burned the fort. The first permanent See also:settlement was made in 1817, and in 1845 Sandusky was chartered as a city.

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