175th Evansport Committee next meets on Apr. 1

The next meeting of the Evansport Terquasquicentennial Committee will be Thursday, April 1, at 7:00 p.m. at the Tiffin Township Fire Station.

Ever seen the original plat map of Evansport?

Want to see what the original plat map of Evansport looked like (well, really, it’s a copy)? The following graphic is from the Defiance County Engineer’s website, and it includes a lot of wonderful information. In case you can’t read the fine print (and the print is pretty tiny in this picture), there’s a translation (as best I can read it) below the map. Or click here to look at the map yourself.

“Map of Evansport

Evansport Town Plat
       Notes and references connected with the subjoined Plat. The lots are right rods long and four rods wide except the fractional lots which are as represented on the Plat. The streets are four rods wide except the street on the West side which is two rods wide. The alleys are eighty hundreths of a chain wide. A stone is planted on the North East corner of lot No. Twenty five from which to commerce future surveys.
Amos Evans (seal)
A. G. Evans (seal)
Jacob Coy (seal)

I do hereby certify this to be a correct Plat and Field Notes of a Town laid out on Section three Township five North of range four East Williams County Ohio surveyed for Albert G. Evans, Amos Evans and Jacob Coy (Proprietors) December 14th 1835
Miller Arrowsmith
Dept County Surveyor Wms Cty. Ohio

The State of Ohio
Williams County
Personally appeared before me Amos Evans Albert G. Evans and Jacob Coy who acknowledged the within(?) Map or Plat of said Town of Evansport to be a correct Plat according to the notes subjoined that is as far as the lots are numbered which are numbered up correctly to No 87 and acknowledged and admitted said plat to record accordingly this December 14 1835.
Foreman(?) Evans
Associate Judge (seal)

The above plat was received for record Dec 14 A.D. 1835 And recorded Dec 20 1835
John Evans Recorder
Transcribed June 24th  1848  S. S. Case Recorder of Defiance Co.
Transcribed May 13th 1897.”

New Evansport road signs remember community heritage

The Evansport Terquasquicentennial Committee, in cooperation with the Tiffin Township Trustees, have erected new Evansport town limits signs—one of many planned activities to commemorate the village’s 175th anniversary in 2010. Committee members (left to right) Kevin Maynard, Kit Salisbury, Casey Salisbury and John Schaufele are shown with one of the new signs, along with Jane Trocha (right) of Defiance, who suggested the sign’s tagline, “Celebrating Farms, Family and Friends Since 1835.” (Stryker Area Heritage Council photo).

Evansport 175th Event to include Arts & Crafts sellers

Arts and Crafts vendors are being invited to participate at the Evansport 175th event in June. Al Hootman is organizing that part of the celebration. The displays will be in the fire station through the day. For more information and to get your entry form, click here. You will need Adobe Reader to get the form.

New Evansport historic photos page added

There’s a new page full of historic photos of the Evansport area. Click here to view the photos and check them out.

Got an old photo of the Evansport area. Why not send us a copy at info@strykerahc.org??? Perhaps we can use it in the collection!

Evansport 175th Anniversary Theme “Ghost Town Alive at 175”

     Terquasquicentennial Committee members announced the selection of “Ghost Town Alive at 175”—submitted by Gaye Schaufele of Evansport—as the community’s 175th anniversary theme. Jane Trocha of Defiance submitted “Celebrating Family, Farms and Friends since 1835,” which the Committee chose as a tagline for new town limits signs they hope to install this year.
     Due to a conflict with the Northwest Ohio Volunteer Firemen’s Association annual convention, Evansport’s 175th anniversary parade, street fair and street dance was rescheduled to June 26, 2010. This change will allow area fire departments to join the Tiffin Township Fire Department in celebrating its 70th anniversary next year.
     The Committee continues planning for the June 26, 2010, event with food, refreshments and live entertainment arrangements in the works, displays of antique automobiles, farm equipment and specialty vehicles planned, as well as children’s activities.
     The Committee will submit an application for an Ohio Historical Marker honoring Evansport’s heritage. Established in 1957, the Ohio Historical Markers program commemorates significant people, places and events in Ohio history. More than 1,300 of these brown and gold cast aluminum markers have been placed across the state. If the Ohio Historical Society approves the marker request, the Committee plans a dedication ceremony on June 26, 2010.
     The Evansport Terquasquicentennial Committee’s next meeting will be held at 7:00 p.m. on December 3 at the Tiffin Township Fire Station. Anyone with an interest in the Evansport area and its heritage is welcome and encouraged to participate.
     Additional information is available by contacting Kevin Maynard at 419.373.0310 or via email at info@strykerahc.org, and also by checking the SAHC website, www.strykerahc.org.

Evansport 175th committee working hard on anniversary events

     Committee members include (front) Kit Salisbury; second row (l to r), Gaye Schaufele, John Schaufele, Rose Burkholder, Jamie Wonders and Casey Salisbury; third row, Don Rethmel, Tanya Brunner, Ben Buehrer, Terry Creighton, Sue Buehrer, Fred Schaufele, Merle Koeppe, Cecelia Brown and Kevin Maynard. (SAHC photo)

The Stryker Area Heritage Council has created a trifold brochure on Evansport’s history featuring information on the town’s creation and its mills, post office, school, churches, band, industries, utilities, fire department and floods. Copies are available at the Evansport Post Office and on the SAHC website, www.strykerhistory.org. Simply click on the photo of the Evansport Mill to get the brochure. You will need Adobe Reader for the brochure to come up.

Additional information is available by contacting Kevin Maynard at 419.373.0310 or via email at info@strykerahc.org, and also by checking the SAHC website, www.strykerhistory.org.

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