Eight Miles Apart: How Toledo and Perrysburg Traded Places

In 1840, Toledo and Perrysburg were almost the same size: two small towns eight miles apart on the Maumee River. By 1970, one was fifty times bigger than the other. Then the race turned around. The written version, with sources: https://crackedbuckeye.com/deep-dives... From the glacial lake and the Great Black Swamp, Fallen Timbers and Fort Meigs, the town Congress ordered laid out in 1816 and the Toledo War, to cholera, the county-seat fight, glass, the jeep, the 1970 peak and the 2014 water crisis. Every fact was checked against its source. Narration: AI voice. Chapters: 0:00 Opening 1:00 1. The rapids 2:53 2. A town ordered by Congress 4:55 3. A war over a swamp 6:37 4. Toledo pulls away 8:10 5. Glass City 9:49 6. The peak, and what it hid 10:59 7. The river turns 12:35 Epilogue Sources (selected): H. S. Knapp, History of the Maumee Valley (1872); Clark Waggoner, History of the City of Toledo and Lucas County (1888); Commemorative Historical and Biographical Record of Wood County (1897) Niles' Weekly Register (1813); Benson Lossing, Pictorial Field-Book of the War of 1812 (1868) Treaty of Greenville (1795) and later treaties (Kappler); Acts of April 27, 1816 (3 Stat. 308 and 319) W. V. Way, The Toledo War of 1835 (1869); Jenkins, Ohio Gazetteer (1841) ODNR Ohio Coastal Atlas; USGS; NPS Fallen Timbers General Management Plan (2006) ASME landmark brochure, Owens AR Bottle Machine (1983); Killits, Toledo and Lucas County (1923) T. Messer-Kruse, Banksters, Bosses, and Smart Money (2004) U.S. Census Bureau decennial census volumes, 1840-2020 University of Toledo Canaday Center; City of Toledo; Ohio Turnpike Commission; Metroparks Toledo; ODOT CDC MMWR 65(35) (2016); Drewes Farms v. City of Toledo (N.D. Ohio, 2020) Pictures: Library of Congress: maps (incl. the 1876 bird's-eye view of Toledo, the Mitchell map of 1755, 1835 boundary maps), Sanborn fire insurance maps, Detroit Publishing Co. photographs, Lewis Hine / National Child Labor Committee photographs (West Virginia, Indiana and New Jersey glass works, 1908-09), wartime jeep production photographs (Willys-Overland, Toledo, 1941) Toledo Lucas County Public Library, via Ohio Memory U.S. Geological Survey: The National Map, topographic maps, aerial photographs; NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory David Rumsey Map Collection, David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford Libraries (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0) Wikimedia Commons (public domain, CC0, CC BY, CC BY-SA): Mbrickn (Fort Meigs, CC BY-SA 4.0); Dustin M. Ramsey (Maumee River at Grand Rapids, CC BY); Sergaderg (Veterans' Glass City Skyway, CC BY 4.0); Cmedinger (Skyway, CC BY-SA 3.0); Wpktsfs (Skyway, CC BY-SA 3.0); Kevin Marsh (Skyway aerial, 2008, CC BY 2.0); Limpfster94 (Anthony Wayne Bridge, CC BY-SA 4.0); Angela Nycz (Summertime in Toledo, CC BY-SA 4.0); Cutlass (Perrysburg, CC0); Commons contributors (One SeaGate, CC BY-SA 2.0; Owens-Illinois building in Perrysburg, CC BY 4.0; Tower on the Maumee, CC BY-SA 3.0) Maps with lines: USGS base maps; lines and labels by Cracked Buckeye Music: original, synthesized for Cracked Buckeye. Cracked Buckeye is a free, non-commercial knowledge base about Ohio: crackedbuckeye.com