Toledo, OH was our next area to explore. We stopped at the Libbey Glass Outlet and the Museum of Art Glass where we enjoyed the exhibit of ancient glass and sampes of art glass from other countries. After lunch we went to Maumee, OH where we toured the Wolcott House Museum. The house was built by James Wolcott, an early settler, landowner, merchant, steamboat owner and civic leader. His wife Mary was the granddaughter of Miami Chief Little Turtle and daughter of a frontier scout, William WElls who served under Gen. Antony Wayne. It was built in 1835 and features black walnut woodwork, antebellu furnishings and family heirlooms.
Also on the property are a log house (1850), a salt-box house built in 1841, the Box Schoolhouse built in 1850 in Lucas Co., the Clover Leaf Depor (1888) and the Monclova County Church in 1901.
On Friday we went to the National Museum of the Great Lakes in Toledo and were amazed at the amount of information that was available. We spent 3 hours in the museum and could have spent another 2-3 hours exloring an ore ship that was the biggest ship on the Great Lakes at the time it was built.
Since we were camping in Monroe, Michigan we spent Saturday exploring the Monroe area. One of the newest National Historic Battlefields is the Raisin River battlefield of 1812. It was the bloodiest battle in the War of 1812. There were over 900 American soldiers in the battle, and only 30 survived. At the time the town of Monroe was called Frenchtown.
After lunch we went to the Monroe museum where we learned that George and Libby Custer were from Monroe and when George wasn't on campaigns, he and Libby lived in Monroe. After his death she returned to Monroe. We also learned that Monroe is the Corporate home of LazyBoy furniture and that Monroe shocks were invented here.
Sunday it was on to Elkhart, Indiana.
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