Sandusky

Sandusky, a city and port of Ohio, and capital of Erie county, on the south shore of Sandusky Bay, an arm of Lake Erie, 56 miles by water (by rail 65) W. of Cleveland. The bay, 15 miles long and 5 wide, forms an excellent harbour. The city is built upon a bed of limestone, on a site rising gradually from the shore. It has several machine-shops, railway-car factories, manufactories of cutlery and edge-tools, wheels, and especially of carved and turned woodwork. From its busy wharves are shipped large quantities of fish, lime, limestone, lumber, salt, coal, ice, wool, wheat, flour, and native wine. Pop. (1880) 15,838; (1890) 18,471.