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Junundat, also called Junandot, Ayonontout, or Etionnontout, was a Wyandot village located south of Sandusky Bay, near modern-day Castalia, Ohio.Junundat was founded c. 1740 by Wyandots moving south from the vicinity of Fort Pontchartrain du Détroit in order to escape harassment by the Odawa (Ottawa).
Due to growing disputes with the French and closer trade relations with Pennsylvania-based merchants, the Wyandot burned their village and relocated to the mouth of the Cuyahoga River in what is today Cleveland in 1748. [5] Castalia was laid out in 1836. [6] The village was named after Castalia, a figure in Greek mythology. [7]
The last known original Wyandot of Ohio was Margaret Grey Eyes Solomon, known as "Mother Solomon". The daughter of Chief John Grey Eyes, she was born in 1816 and left Ohio in 1843. By 1889 she had returned to Ohio, when she was recorded as a spectator to the restoration of the Wyandot Mission Church in Upper Sandusky.
A pay-what-you-can restaurant inside a Toledo, Ohio, library aims to combat hunger by offering meals in exchange for volunteer work, donations or fresh produce. Ohio library helps fight food ...
Township offices in Castalia. The township is governed by a three-member board of trustees, who are elected in November of odd-numbered years to a four-year term beginning on the following January 1. Two are elected in the year after the presidential election and one is elected in the year before it.
The Upper Sandusky Reservation was home to many of the Wyandot from 1818–1842. It was the last Native American reservation in Ohio when it was dissolved, and was also the largest Native American reservation in Ohio, although up until 1817 most of Northwest Ohio had not been ceded to the United States government. [1]
Entrance to Blue Hole. The Blue Hole is a fresh water pond and cenote located in Castalia, Erie County, Ohio, in the United States.From the 1920s to 1990 the Blue Hole was a tourist site, attracting 165,000 visitors annually at the height of its popularity, partly because of its location on State Route 269, about 7 miles (11 km) southwest of the Cedar Point amusement park in Sandusky, Ohio.
A schoolhouse was in operation at Wyandot by 1828. [2] A post office called Wyandot opened in 1837, and was discontinued in 1905. [3] Dr. Charles E. Sawyer, the personal physician of Warren G. Harding, was born in Wyandot in 1860. [4]