In 1905 Indiana machinist Emsley O. Grose brought his roofing-nail machine to Fostoria, where a 1908 history credits him with organizing Seneca Wire. His Independent Tack Co. later opened a Fostoria plant in 1915. Here is what the record shows, and what is still unknown.
In 1915 the Fostoria YMCA staged the city’s first municipal Halloween celebration, with a King Corn costume review, membership prizes and confetti handed out in place of cabbages. The Exchange Club took it over in 1922.
Fostoria police and BCI agents arrested Bradly Ray, 50, of Fostoria, on a Seneca County murder indictment Thursday in the 2006 killing of Jeffrey Risner, a 20-year-old cold case, police said.
In 1915 four Fostoria businessmen launched the Fostoria Light Car, a $675 touring car billed as “The Surprise Car of 1916.” Bad engines sank it within about a year, but the company came back as the Seneca Motor Car Co. and shipped cars around the world until 1924.
Seneca County’s park district runs more than a dozen preserves, from a 292-acre farm-turned-nature-preserve to an inclusive playground, and Fostoria has eight city parks. Here is a guide to what each one offers.
From 7.4 miles of trail at Garlo Heritage to Steyer’s ravine bridges and Oak Openings’ 70-plus miles, here are trails within reach of Fostoria, with lengths, addresses and seasonal closures to know before you go.
The Allen brothers ran Fostoria’s biggest buggy maker, the Peabody Buggy Co., then switched to automobiles in 1913. For six years Allen cars were built in four plants and tested on Wood Street. Here is the story, and what stands on those sites today.
Robins, cardinals, blue jays and mourning doves top the list. Here are the birds most often reported around Fostoria and Seneca County, based on a decade of public bird records, plus which ones come only in winter.
Log schoolhouses in Rome and Risdon, a four-room brick school after the 1854 merger, the 18-room Central School on High Street and the new junior-senior high that opened in 2020: here is how Fostoria’s schools grew.
From a log Methodist church on Portage Creek in 1833 to St. Wendelin’s first Mass in a log cabin and the fountains and Doughboy of Fountain Cemetery, here is how Fostoria’s oldest congregations and burial grounds took shape.
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