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Put-in-Bay High School
Put-In-Bay High School is a public high school on South Bass Island in Put-In-Bay, Ohio. It is the only high school in the Put-In-Bay Schools district. There are around thirty students enrolled at any given time, and they make up the pride of the Put-in-Bay Panthers. With only two Seniors in the Class of 2022, it is one of the smallest public high schools in Ohio. The school fields a co-ed basketball team every year that plays a mostly-junior varsity schedule against a variety of schools in Northwest Ohio. Besides basketball, the school offers other seasonal sports such as volleyball, cross-country, archery, and sailing. All sports are offered to children in grades 7–12. Though the number of students is small, there is no shortage of extracurriculars offered. The school hosts an Environmental Club, a Computer Club, and a Robotics team, as well as a Student Council. Aside from South Bass Island, Put-In-Bay Local School District also covers the Lake Erie Islands of Buckeye Isla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Public School (government Funded)
State schools (in England, Wales, Australia and New Zealand) or public schools (Scottish English and North American English) are generally primary or secondary schools that educate all students without charge. They are funded in whole or in part by taxation. State funded schools exist in virtually every country of the world, though there are significant variations in their structure and educational programmes. State education generally encompasses primary and secondary education (4 years old to 18 years old). By country Africa South Africa In South Africa, a state school or government school refers to a school that is state-controlled. These are officially called public schools according to the South African Schools Act of 1996, but it is a term that is not used colloquially. The Act recognised two categories of schools: public and independent. Independent schools include all private schools and schools that are privately governed. Independent schools with low tui ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buckeye Island
Buckeye Island is a small island of the U.S. state of Ohio, in Lake Erie. It is located just off shore of the northeast tip of South Bass Island, in Put-in-Bay Township, Ottawa County. It was seasonally populated early in the 20th century. The island was noted for the Willow Willows, also called sallows and osiers, from the genus ''Salix'', comprise around 400 speciesMabberley, D.J. 1997. The Plant Book, Cambridge University Press #2: Cambridge. of typically deciduous trees and shrubs, found primarily on moist s ... trees found there. It is privately owned, and has been by the same family since 1916. It is sometimes labeled as "Buckeye Point". Retrieved March 13, 2014. References [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Ladd (American Football)
James W. Ladd (July 29, 1932 – November 13, 1996) was an American football end who played for the Chicago Cardinals (now known as the Arizona Cardinals). He had multiple stints with the team but only played in 1954. He went to college at Bowling Green. He was drafted in the 20th round (234th overall) by the Chicago Bears in 1954. In his NFL career, he played in 11 games, and had 22 catches for 254 yards. References External linksJim Ladd College Basketball Stats– via Sports Reference Sports Reference, LLC, is an American company which operates several sports-related websites, including Sports-Reference.com, Baseball-Reference.com for baseball, Basketball-Reference.com for basketball, Hockey-Reference.com for ice hockey, Pro- ...Jim Ladd Career Stats NFL.com * Further reading * 1932 births 1996 deaths American football ends Chicago Cardinals players Bowling Green Falcons football players Bowling Green Falcons men's basketball players People from Ottawa Coun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Starve Island
Starve Island is an island of the U.S. state of Ohio located in Lake Erie. The island is about a mile (1.6 km) south of South Bass Island. In normal weather conditions it is visible for only a mile or two, as some rocks and a few shrubs poking up from the lake, and is the second smallest of the Lake Erie Islands (the smallest is Turtle Island). The island can be seen from the top of Perry's Victory and International Peace Memorial in Put-in-Bay. It is said that the island gets its name from a sailor's fate upon the island following a shipwreck. Variant names for the island include Dinner Island and Glacial Island. The Starve Island Reef is located approximately one mile further south of Starve Island at . Island and reef are both located in Put-in-Bay Township, Ottawa County, Ohio Put-in-Bay Township is one of the twelve townships of Ottawa County, Ohio, United States. The 2000 census found 763 people in the township, 635 of whom lived in the unincorporated portions of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rattlesnake Island (Lake Erie)
Rattlesnake Island is an island located on Lake Erie near Put-In-Bay, northeast of Port Clinton, Ohio. It is part of Put-in-Bay Township, in Ottawa County. It is one of several islands known as the Lake Erie Islands. The name Rattlesnake comes from the actual rattlesnakes that formerly inhabited the island, ( and supposedly also from the overall shape of the island — two small islets near the northern tip were said to resemble a rattlesnake's rattle). History During the later-1700s, the Lake Erie Islands were still part of the Canadian territory (having been claimed for Great Britain, by the Governor of Canada, and who also named St. George’s Island, when he visited these islands circa-1797). However, the Connecticut Land Company later (circa-1806) surveyed them as being part of the Connecticut Western Reserve (but, none of these Lake Erie islands were ever a part of the Firelands Grant). Put-in-Bay was a strategic location during the War of 1812, when Oliver Hazard Per ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mouse Island, Ohio
Mouse Island is a private island located in Lake Erie off the northern tip of Catawba Point in Ottawa County, Ohio, United States, near the city of Sandusky (). It was formerly named "Ship Island", as denoted on early-19th-Century maps (and in some late-18th-Century documents).A short topographical description of His Majesty's province of Upper Canada in North America to which is annexed a provincial gazetteer, by Sir David Wm. Smyth, publ 1799 It was later named Mouse Island for its small size. It is part of Catawba Island Township. The island was once owned by the American president Rutherford B. Hayes Rutherford Birchard Hayes (; October 4, 1822 – January 17, 1893) was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 19th president of the United States from 1877 to 1881, after serving in the U.S. House of Representatives and as governor .... The Hayes family built two small cabins, a hand ferry to the shore, a tennis court and supplied the island with running water ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Green Island (Ohio)
Green Island is a small 17-acre (0.07 km²) , p. 42. Retrieved March 7, 2014 island of the U.S. state of Ohio, in Lake Erie. It is located approximately three miles southwest of Put-in-Bay. It is part of [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gibraltar Island
Gibraltar Island (or the "Gem of Lake Erie") is an island in Ohio, located within Lake Erie. This small 6.55-acre (0.026 km²) island is just offshore of South Bass Island. It is part of Put-in-Bay Township, Ottawa County, Ohio. The rocky island is named for its resemblance to the Rock of Gibraltar. History Gibraltar Island became a lookout point for Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry in the fight against the British during the War of 1812. Perry and his men defeated a fleet of British sailing vessels during the famous Battle of Lake Erie on September 10, 1813. As a result, the lookout point on Gibraltar Island became known as Perry's Lookout. Ownership of the island remained with Connecticut until Pierpont Edwards, a New York City banker purchased the deed in 1807. Sandusky, Ohio, native Jay Cooke bought the island from Edwards in 1864 and immediately began construction of a 15-room Victorian-Gothic mansion (now known as Cooke Castle). The Cooke family entertained a variety ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lake Erie Islands
The Lake Erie Islands are a chain of archipelagic islands in Lake Erie. They include Kelleys Island, Erie Island, Pelee Island, the Bass Islands, and several others. The majority of these islands are under the sovereignty of the State of Ohio in the United States. Pelee Island is the only major inhabited island within the province of Ontario, while the smaller Middle Island is the southmost point of land in Canada. Most of the larger islands are popular tourist attractions, served by car ferries running from the mainland and between some islands. Some small airports and numerous private marinas offer other ways for visitors to reach the islands. Combined with nearby Sandusky and Port Clinton, Ohio, the islands are part of the collective area known regionally as " Vacationland". Geology The Lake Erie Islands are geologically part of the Silurian Columbus Limestone. When the Pleistocene ice sheets carved out the basin of modern-day Lake Erie, these hard rocks proved more resis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Put-in-Bay, Ohio
Put-in-Bay is a village located on South Bass Island in Put-in-Bay Township, Ottawa County, Ohio, United States, east of Toledo. The population was 154 at the 2020 census. The village is a popular summer resort and recreational destination. Ferry and airline services connect the community with Catawba Island, Kelleys Island, Port Clinton, and Sandusky, Ohio. The bay played a significant role in the War of 1812 as the location of the squadron of U.S. naval commander Oliver Hazard Perry, who sailed from the port on September 10, 1813, to engage a British squadron just north of the island in the Battle of Lake Erie. Location and area Put-in-Bay is located northwest of Sandusky, at (41.653006, -82.817620). According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of , of which is land and is water. History The first known people to use the island were various groups of Native American tribes, including the Ottawas, Miamis, Shawnee, Senecas, Iroquoi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toledo Blade
''The Blade'', also known as the ''Toledo Blade'', is a newspaper in Toledo, Ohio published daily online and printed Thursday and Sunday by Block Communications. The newspaper was first published on December 19, 1835. Overview The first issue of what was then the ''Toledo Blade'' was printed on December 19, 1835. It has been published daily since 1848 and is the oldest continuously run business in Toledo. David Ross Locke gained national fame for the paper during the Civil War era by writing under the pen name Petroleum V. Nasby. Under this name, he wrote satires ranging on topics from slavery, to the Civil War, to temperance. President Abraham Lincoln was fond of the Nasby satires and sometimes quoted them. In 1867 Locke bought the ''Toledo Blade''. The paper dropped "Toledo" from its masthead in 1960. In 2004 ''The Blade'' won the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting with a series of stories entitled "Buried Secrets, Brutal Truths". The story brought to light the stor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Northwest Ohio
Northwest Ohio, or Northwestern Ohio, consists of multiple counties in the northwestern corner of the US state of Ohio. This area borders Lake Erie, Southeast Michigan, and northeastern Indiana. Some areas are also considered the Black Swamp area. The Toledo metropolitan area is part of the region. Northwest Ohio's population in 2000 was 1,639,144 and is declining, specifically in the northern regions (counties shaded in the darker blue and Allen County). However, southern areas, such as Marion and Morrow Counties, and the City of Findlay are growing. Largest municipalities Toledo is the principal city of Northwest Ohio. Most of the region's television channels and radio stations are licensed in Toledo, Perrysburg or nearby Bowling Green. Though Toledo is an industrial city, Northwest Ohio is primarily agricultural with small centers of commerce distributed across region. Since the 1970s, the population of Lucas County and the Toledo metropolitan area has declined, though Wood ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
