What is the history of Sandusky, Ohio?
Fort Sandusky was a British trading and military outpost established around 1794. The Native Americans that inhabited the immediate surrounding area were the Seneca, displaced at the outset of the American Revolution. The generally accepted theory is that the name “Sandusky” is an anglicization of the phrase “San Too Chee,” meaning “cold water. A less accepted theory is that the that the city was named after a Polish fur trader by the name of Antoni Sadowski or Jacob Sodowsky http://www.sandusky.lib.oh.us/public/local_history_faq.asp. The Greater Sandusky area was a safe haven and a new start for refugees of the Firelands refugees of the Revolutionary War in Connecticut. Norwalk, the Huron County seat (just south of Erie County) is named for Norwalk, CT, as is New London, a small town south of Norwalk. Established as Portland in 1816, the name was changed two years later to Sandusky
