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Light Up Huron Charity Event Set Admirals Pointe and The Huron Hometown News ask for your help to Light up Huron. In cooperation with the Lighthouse Assembly of God Church we announce a charity silent auction to assist in helping the needy of our community. Lighthouse Church is celebrating 15 years as the Salvation Army’s service unit for Huron. They currently assist 135 families with food, clothing, baby needs, and many other items. Utilizing 6 rooms in the church to store donated food and supplies, everything is distributed in the Huron community alone. The Light up Huron silent auction takes place on Sunday, December 12th with a wine and
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Senior Night Huron celebrated Senior Night this past weekend. Here are some of the highlights captured on camera. For more photos, go to www.huronhometownnews.com.
The City of Huron has been notified by Norfolk & Southern that the railroad tracks on Main Street/Ohio 13 will be closed for repairs from Nov. 11-19. Detour signs will direct drivers to alternate routes: • Traffic heading south on Main Street should turn right on Ohio 6 heading west to Center Street. Turn left on Center Street and head south to Bogart Road. At Bogart Road turn left and head east to Main Street; turn right and head south on Main Street (Ohio 13). • Traffic heading north on Main Street (Ohio 13) should turn left onto Bogart Road and head west toward Center Street; turn right and head north toward Ohio 6. At Ohio 6, turn right and head east back to Main Street. • Traffic heading east on Ohio 6 should continue on Ohio 6 heading west to Center Street. At Center Street turn left and head south toward Bogart Road; turn left and head east toward Main Street. At Main Street turn right and head south. • Traffic heading west on Ohio 6 should turn right on Center Street to Bogart Road; turn left and head east to Main Street; turn right and head south.
Right: Senior Cassidy Innes dances in her final home game at halftime.
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cheese party. Donations for auction should include decorated Christmas trees and/or wreathes. This will be a fun event with a competition and awards for best theme tree and best overall tree. We encourage companies, groups, and individuals to get involved. Trees can be donated and set up between November 15th and November 21st. Viewing begins November 22nd to auction time. Call Connie at Huron Hometown News, 419433-1401, or Lisa at Admirals Pointe 419-4334990, to arrange for space. Let’s help Lighthouse Church make this a very special Christmas in our community.
Below: Senior marching band members strut their stuff at the end of the final home halftime performances of their careers.
Tree Planting Represents Senior Class Senior Rory Kaip plants a tree recently at a Huron event. Each senior helps to “plant” the tree representing their year by pouring a little water on it, with the help of a coach. The seniors also presented a check to the Michael Danilo family that evening. For their Senior Legacy they raised funds for the family because Danilo is suffering from Lou Gehrig’s Disease and Danilo’s son, Sam, is on the football team.
Portraits of Huron’s Past: Tower Jackson BY LISA YAKO OF HISTORICAL RESEARCH PARTNERS I first encountered 19th Century Huron resident, Tower Jackson, several years ago and was so intrigued by his name that I wanted to know something about him. Yet, what is in a name? According to dictionary.com, the word tower can mean: “one that conspicuously embodies strength, firmness, or another virtue.” After researching the many facets of his life, I can truly say that Tower Jackson lived up to his name. Tower Jackson was born in Woodstock, Vt., on Nov. 23, 1798 to Morris I. Jackson and Lucinda Sheldon. In 1804, the Jackson family moved to Hudson, New York, and then settled in Cleveland in 1817. In 1819, Tower Jackson moved to Norwalk and gained employment as a clerk in the store of George and Ralph Lockwood in Norwalk. The Lockwood brothers relocated their store to Milan, and Tower moved also. Around 1820, Tower settled in Huron. He invested in various businesses in Huron, his first being a dry goods and grocery store. For this venture, he partnered with Henry W. Jenkins. This partnership continued for a few years. About 1830, Tower built the Huron House hotel on the northwest corner of Main and Wall streets. Around this same time, Tower entered into a partnership with Richard E. Colt. These two entrepreneurs invested considerable money in a variety of businesses, most notably in the building of ships. In 1833, they financed the building of the 170-ton steamer Delaware. She was ready in 1834 and sold to a company in Detroit. From around 1834 through 1841, Tower served as the postmaster in Huron. He
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was required to make a weekly trip to Cleveland to get the mail. For his efforts, Tower was paid $175 per year. In 1840, he built another hotel, the American House. Tower remained in Huron until 1846 when he moved to Racine, Wisc. Prior to leaving Ohio, Tower became associated with John James Speed and Ezra Cornell, who were instrumental in the creation of the telegraph. Tower, along with Speed, Cornell and others, erected and successfully operated more than 5,000 miles of telegraph line in New York, Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Wisconsin and Illinois. Tower also laid 100 miles of telegraph line from Cleveland to Newcastle, Pa., and was paid $20 per mile. In 1848, he moved to Brooklyn, Ohio, just outside of Cleveland, where he lived with his brother, Morris, and some extended family. Tower was listed as one of eight directors of the Erie and Michigan Telegraph Company in 1849. In the 1850 census, Tower listed his occupation as telegraph agent. By 1852, Tower again changed careers. He was named the first mining agent of the Cleveland Iron Company. Tower was sent to Marquette, Mich., to determine how to extract iron ore from a newly-discovered source and then bring it to the lakeshore for shipping. This was a daunting task, which Tower solved by erecting a plank road from the top of the mountain where the iron was located to the lakeshore. Though Tower was replaced as mining agent in June of 1853, 1,449 tons of iron ore was shipped to Cleveland for processing in 1855 because of Tower’s efforts in building the plank road. The first load that was shipped was 120
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tons and was carried by the two-masted brig, Columbia. The Columbia was the first vessel to pass through the Sault Canal between Lake Superior and Lake Huron. She reached her destination of Cleveland on June 18, 1855. Tower returned to Ohio and again changed careers. From 1860-1870, he was living in Huron and listed his occupation as farmer on the United States census. At the time of the 1880 census when he was 81 years old, Tower listed his occupation as capitalist. Tower’s personal life was just as interesting as his professional life. In 1822, he married Sarah Clock of Monroeville. She bore him several children, but only one, Sarah Elizabeth (Griffith), lived to adulthood. Sarah Clock Jackson died in 1854, while living in Cleveland. In 1856, Tower married Lucy M. Button and then returned to Huron. Tower was named one of the first vestrymen of Christ Episcopal Church after the church was officially organized in 1839. While living in Cleveland, Tower joined forces with other abolitionists to help runaway slaves find freedom, an effort he often supported with his own money. After returning to Huron, he was named a lay delegate for Christ Church in 1862, and again named to the vestry in 1865. Tower died in Huron in 1891 in his 93rd year. He was buried in the Erie Street Cemetery in Cleveland. According to Tower’s obituary, he was “a man of wonderful vigor, both mentally and physically.” Further, “He was prompt in all business enterprises, and contributed more largely to the early prosperity of Huron than any other resident.”
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