Waite High School - Warrior Yearbook (Toledo, OH)

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to General Harrison at Fort hfeigs E that Commodore Perry sent his world- ' 5' f famed dispatch when the British ','v lowered their colors at Put-in-Bay: C, We have met the enemy and they ,my -T T are oursll' All honor to old Fort Meigs! , h .- lf :dv . lg M- ' m f, A 1, 1d.Aftertthe. depgatrlatltion of peace, , ,l,5,1?fL!fff -I ,lvl so iers re Ll.I'11Htg f Heir gornes gavs fT,,,j,,f, -. gowing accoun s o e eauty an ' ll! ,fgwfl Ma. fertility of the hfaumee Valley, its CANNON FROM PERRY5 FLAGSH' P forests, and its game, so that immigra- tion to the region increased steadily. The history of transportation in the Valley centers about the development of trade on natural and artificial waterways. To make one's way through north- western Ohio in the early part of the nineteenth century was extremely hazardous. Besides the danger of encountering hostile Indians, swamps and almost un- broken forests obstructed travel. River and lake shipping was made easily possible by the abundance of timber both for building purposes and for fuel. It was only to be expected that the pioneers should take advantage of natural resources, to establish and maintain communication with the rest of the country. The first craft to ply the Maumee for commercial purposes was the schooner Black Snake, Jacob Wilkinson, master. She sailed up the river, landing a number of immigrant families at Fort lyfeigs. The first steamboat on the Great Lakes was built to run between Buffalo and the foot of the lhfaumee rapids. Launched in 1818, the W'alk-in-the-Wlater attempted to navigate the Maumee river, but was unable to get farther than the mouth of Swan Creek because of the shallowness of the water. This proved a great disappointment to ' her owners who had purchased a tract of land V , below Perrysburg, and had laid out a town which was to have become a great commercial 4 ' metropolis. V, X, The history of shipbuilding in the valley ' . begins when the sloop hfiami was launched at 'A , I, K Perrysburg. The town, for years afterward, g f ' A ' was important as a shipbuilding center. The X, launching of the hffiami was the beginning of a j ' Y ' great industry which reached its climax during if the World VVar, when the Toledo Shipbuilding Company took the lead in building Lake ,f Type vessels for the emergency fleet. The Nliami would appear like a toy beside one of the leviathans of our inland seas. f Until the completion of the hliami and , ,,n,-, l IWEQQ Erie Canal, Toledo was little more than a te .J ,Ji malaria-breeding impoverished town. The fi ,, - . 1 i AF - f , ff,,f,. V415 , , 7 . fl vp waterway rapidly developed into a great M -TJ- ' --,'-' - - W thoroughfare of travel, as many as 4,000 boats FORT M965 MONUMENT clearing Toledo in one year. hffillions of dol-

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