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September 10 1813 - Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry defeats the British in the Battle of Lake Erie, fought near Put-in-Bay at South Bass Island.

May 7 1813 - The first siege of Ft. Meigs concludes as American troops turn back the British troops and Indian warriors.

May 8-14 May 8 1843 - The Wabash and Erie Canal Opens between Toledo and Fort Wayne Indiana. The first canal boat arrives in Toledo.

1885 - Soldiers monument unveiled in Fremont at Fort Stephenson Park. 1908 - The new Secor Hotel in downtown Toledo opens for its first guests. The new hotel has 304 rooms, many with private bathrooms. It features a spacious new lobby with green and gold decor, a European dining room finished in Louis XIV style and large pillars in the dining area wrapped in grapevines laden with ripe white and black grapes. 1915 - Ohio Oil Company is formed to produce petroleum products from the oil being recovered in Northwest Ohio. 1916 - A sick camel given to the city of Toledo Zoo by Barnum and Bailey Ci...

May 10 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 "d...