I attended an interesting program at Olander Park in Sylvania last Saturday on Toledo’s Roadways & Highways by a local historian Fred Folger. For those who find learning about why so many streets zigzag at Dorr Street ie Bryne, Reynolds, King and Crissey…Dorr was once the Ohio-Michigan line and neither state much cared for the other’s platting of streets; or what was the first road in the area….Detroit Ave. traveling the whole way to a more major city at the time and why the west side of Toledo now has a denser population than the east side; and how Toledo got its name…the developers of the competing originals towns of Port Lawrence and Vistua were influenced by the writer & Toledo landowner Irving Washington of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow fame whose stories were widely read.
Fred Folger will be presenting another talk on Toledo’s Maumee River Bridges on Saturday, February 21 at Olander Park in Sylvania and Out And About Around Toledo as part of the Wolcott House Guild Historical Lectures on Monday, February 23 at the Maumee Library. Check out the Olander Parks website at www.orlanderpk.com and the Toledo Public Library site at www.toledolibrary.org for more details.
