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Johnson's Island is a 300-acre (120 ha) island in Sandusky Bay, located on the coast of Lake Erie, 3 miles (4.8 km) from the city of Sandusky, Ohio. It was the site of a prisoner-of-war camp for Confederate officers captured during the American Civil War .
John Orne Johnson Frost (January 2, 1852 – November 3, 1928), who signed his work as J. O. J. Frost, was an early 20th-century American folk artist.He began painting at the age of 70, without receiving any formal training.
Pollard operated the Island House until August, 1869, when "Cat Island, recently called Lowell Island and sometimes called Pollard's Island, with all boats, their tackle and furniture, all fishing lines and materials, bathing suits and other articles of personal property including a piano", [6] were sold to Andrew L. Johnson for $10,000. [5]
The island has had numerous names including Catta, Cotta, Catt, Cat, Lowell, Pollard, and Children's; for most of history it was Cat Island. The origin of its name is that in the 18th century Catta was a corruption of Cotta and referred to an early Marblehead native named Robert Cotta, who used the land between 1635 and 1655 for the grazing of his sheep.
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Marblehead is a village in Ottawa County, Ohio, United States. The population was 865 at the 2020 census. ... Nearby, in Sandusky Bay, is Johnson's Island, ...
Glover's Marblehead regiment in the war of the revolution by Gardner, Frank Augustine; Fogle, Lauren (2008). Colonial Marblehead: From Rogues to Revolutionaries. Charleston, SC: History Press. ISBN 978-1-59629-411-0. Sanborn, Natan P. (1903). Gen. John Glover and his Marblehead Regiment. Marblehead, MA: Marblehead Historical Society.
The firm began quarry operations on Kelleys Island in 1886 and was dissolved in the early 1960s. Company operations were located in Ohio, New York, and West Virginia. Main sites were Kelleys Island (1886-1940) and nearby Marblehead, Ohio (1890s-1955).