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The marker reads:
Front Text : "Ottawa County Courthouse"
As the county seat, Port Clinton is home to the present Ottawa County Courthouse, completed on May 20, 1901 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. Constructed in the Richardson Romanesque style, the exterior of the courthouse was built using sandstone quarried at Amherst, Ohio. Pink marble wainscoting, an ornate staircase, and stenciling enhance the interior. A copy of William Powell's mural, "Perry's Victory on Lake Erie," is featured along with smaller murals depicting early county industries - farming, fishing, fruit growing, and quarrying. Memorial tablets honor veterans from the Spanish-American War and Civil War.
Back Text : "Ottawa County Courthouse"
As the county seat, Port Clinton is home to the present Ottawa County Courthouse, completed on May 20, 1901 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. Constructed in the Richardson Romanesque style, the exterior of the courthouse was built using sandstone quarried at Amherst, Ohio. Pink marble wainscoting, an ornate staircase, and stenciling enhance the interior. A copy of William Powell's mural, "Perry's Victory on Lake Erie," is featured along with smaller murals depicting early county industries - farming, fishing, fruit growing, and quarrying. Memorial tablets honor veterans from the Spanish-American War and Civil War.
Written Dec 27, 2010
Address: 315 Madison Street, Port Clinton, OH 43452
Website: http://www.remarkableohio.org/HistoricalMarker.aspx?historicalMarkerId=602
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The Ottawa County Courthouse was designed by architectural firm Wing and Mahurin and built in 1901 for $65,000. In the county seat of Port Clinton, the building is still in use and today houses the Ottawa County Court of Common Pleas and its probate and juvenile divisions.
The courthouse features Richardsonian Romanesque style architecture and is built of North Amherst Sandstone and pink Tennessee Marble. The building features a square clock tower in the center of the building which rises 132 feet. The top of the tower contains a belfry for the clock chimes. Inside, a wall outside the main courtroom features four painted scenes depicting quarrying, farming, fishing and fruit growing, which reflect the industries and the immigrants of Ottawa County in the early 1900s. Slavic immigrants worked the quarries, Danish immigrants were farmers, French immigrants were fishermen, and German immigrants were fruit growers.
Ottawa County is named after the Ottawa Indian Tribe.https://www.supremecourt.ohio.gov/Courthouses/ottawa.asp
Updated Dec 27, 2010
Address: 315 Madison St. Port Clinton, Oh
Phone: 614.387.9000
Website: http://www.supremecourt.ohio.gov/default.asp
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This beautiful mural depicts the historic downtown Port Clinton of life along the Portage River through its history. It actually talks with a recorded story that walks visitors through many of the features in the mural (sound system unavailable during the winter).
Port Clinton Chamber of Commerce
110 Madison St.
Port Clinton, OH. 43452
(419) 734-5503
Updated Dec 27, 2010
Website: hhttp://www.nightscribe.com/Cultural/stensen_mural.htm
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This lovely little park is located off Main Street. Just a simple little park, but one dedicate to the inventor of the Erie Dearie, "The Lure that made Lake Erie the Walleye Capital of the World," charter boat captain, Dan Galbincea. Read the web site to learn more.
Port Clinton Chamber of Commerce
110 Madison St.
Port Clinton, OH. 43452
Updated Dec 27, 2010
Address: Main Street, Port Clinton, Oh
Phone: (419) 734-5503
Website: http://www.eriedearie.com/history.html
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Port Clinton has a beautiful historic downtown area that has some really neat stores, pubs, and restaurants. It is a very popular place during summer and winter. A great way to spend a day.
GALLERY ON THE LAKE
DOWNTOWN PORT CLINTON
PORT CLINTON, OHIO 43452
419-734-3318
GREAT LAKES POPCORN CO.
115 MADISON ST.
PORT CLINTON, OH 43452
419-732-3080
GREEN'S PHARMACY
DOWNTOWN PORT CLINTON
PORT CLINTON, OH 43452
GREEN'S PHARMACY
MARY'S BLOSSOM SHOPPE
125 MADISON ST.
PORT CLINTON, OH 43452
419-734-4442
OTTO AND URBAN GREENHOUSE AND FLOWER SHOP
118 W 6TH STREET
PORT CLINTON, OHIO 43452
419-734-4456
J.R.'S HALLMARK
1624 E. PERRY ST.
PORT CLINTON, OHIO 43452
419-732-3361
KLINGBIEL FLOWERS
113 W 6TH STREET
PORT CLINTON, OHIO 43452
419-734-3168
WIDE WORLD SHOP
104 W. PERRY ST.
PORT CLINTON, OHIO 43452
419-732-2360
NORTH COAST KITES & TOYS
123 MADISON ST.
PORT CLINTON, OHIO 43452
419-732-3107
CRUISIN TUNES
131 MADISON ST.
PORT CLINTON, OHIO 43452
614-582-7820
Updated Dec 27, 2010
Address: Main Street, Port Clinton, Ohio 43452
Phone: (419) 734-5503
Website: http://www.portclintonchamber.com/index.htm
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Port Clinton has some of the nicest marina's. It was so wonderful to be able to just stroll along them and take in all the lovely sights. Many of them have parks, benches, and restaurants. They have many different type amenities, so enjoy a stroll.
Updated Dec 27, 2010
Address: 537 W. Lakeshore Drive, Port Clinton, Oh
Phone: 419-734-5503
Website: http://www.portclintonchamber.com/pubboatacc.htm
To be honest there really isn't much in Port Clinton except the ferry launch and some dining. But we found that a short drive up lake shore dr. gives you a pleathera of things. The draw back... everything is closed Mon. and Tues. , bummer. Still the sights are enough to over come this and Sandusky is only 8 mi. away. There's the obvious (Cedar Point) and just outside on Ohio route 6 is Toft's Ice cream factory. It looked like it was open for tours and the parlor was deffinately open, we had some of their ice cream at Cedar Point but I'm sure it was cheaper there and just as good. In Marblehead the light house was open for tours, and at only $2 a head it was a deal, but be warned, if your afraid of heights don't go up, just admire it from the ground, it was still as beautiful of a view. At the Catawba pennensula there is the Mon Ami wienery( don't know how that was but I thought I should mention it). Also at the same intersection is the CHEESE HAVEN! Yes a store dedicated to the lovers of cheese. What bliss, but bliss denied because it was on of those closed Mon and Tues day places along with Train-o-rama. Despite that, the Port Clinton area is a Joy and a repeat visit weather your doing the family thing as we will the next time or the couple getting reunited thing, as we did this time.
P.S. If you can over look the thermal nuclear power plant in the distance, the sunset is VERY Romantic.
Updated Jul 16, 2009
Address: Port Clinton / Put-in-Bay area
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