Historical Photos

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Train On Sandusky Bay Railroad Bridge

Trains going across Sandusky Bay carried mail for the United States Post Office. These photographs of “fast mail” trains, from the early twentieth century, show the trains traveling on the railroad bridge across Sandusky Bay.

Year Taken: 1929

Mail Train

In the 1850s, Sardis Birchard, uncle of Rutherford B. Hayes, tried to stop the development of a railroad bridge across Sandusky Bay, because he feared the bridge would interfere with ship traffic. Ultimately, it was impossible to stop development of the railroad bridge across the bay.

Year Taken: 1929

Log Cabin Inn

Alberta “Bertie” Orshoski was the only daughter of Steve and Emma (Yeager) Orshoski. The first of the five Orshoski children, For twenty four years, Bertie and her husband John Maschari owned and operated the Log Cabin Inn, a restaurant in Bay View.

Source: Graveyard Rabbit of Sandusky

Sandusky Bay Bridge

On Feb. 2, 1929, the Sandusky Bay Bridge was dedicated, providing a direct route for automobiles across the bay between Erie and Ottawa counties. This marked the first time automobile traffic could cross Sandusky Bay.Upon being constructed, the Sandusky Bay Bridge, in Bay View, was the longest bridge and causeway in Ohio.

311 Ogontz Trail

One of the early summer cabins. Dated 1930.

Medusa Cement Factory

From 1892 until 1960, the Medusa Portland Cement Co. employed many area residents. The company, originally named the Sandusky Portland Cement Co., was founded by three brothers in 1892: Spencer, Arthur and William Newberry. The men were all sons of well-known geologist John Strong Newberry. Marl and clay, key components in the manufacturing in portland cement at that time, were widely available in the marshy land surrounding Bay Bridge.

Highway Patrol - Bay View, OH

The Ohio Highway Patrol had a post near the old Sandusky Bay Bridge. The building is now the Village Hall.

Year: 1950’s

Sandusky Bay Railroad Bridge - Today

The old causeway for a demolished highway bridge, now used as a fishing pier, are the easiest way for land lovers to view the bridge. The bridge appears to be a traditionally composed plate girder Scherzer type rolling lift bascule bridge. The bridge is on a long causeway. The causeway itself contains four separate “bridges.”