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pagetitle: "Welcome to our Wedding!"
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- Adam Carpenter
- Amy Squire
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# On August 9th, 2019,
## Amy and Adam are tying the knot! Celebrate with us at The Crew's Nest, Put-in-Bay, Ohio
Greetings from the bride- and groom-to-be! If you received something from us in
the mail then you are cordially invited to witness our union in marriage. Just
kidding; it's a casual occasion! We can't wait to see all of our friends and
family on the most special day of our lives. The wedding is taking place in a
very special place to us: it's a destination wedding to Put-in-Bay, an island
on Lake Erie.
### RSVP Here!
If you're technologically savvy (you made it here!) then you may RSVP through
the top of the page [or at this link](/rsvp).
### The Wedding Venue
The ceremony will take place *Friday, August 9th, 2019 at 4:00 PM* at the
historic *Doller Mansion* at *392 Bayview Avenue, Put-in Bay, OH*.
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The reception will follow at the *Crew's Nest Pavilion* at *460 Bayview Avenue,
Put-in Bay, OH*.
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### Dress
The ceremony will be outdoors in August so we want everyone to be comfortable.
Please wear resort casual attire. We recommend you avoid high heels. There will
be hats and parasols for our more sensitive guests.
### Morning-After Brunch
Don't skip town just yet! Dianne and Terry Squire invite you to a morning-after
brunch honoring the new Mr. and Mrs. Carpenter. It will take place on August
10^th^ 9:00-11:00AM at The Crew's Nest. If you are interested please call
Dianne at [330-697-9632](tel: 330-697-9632) before July 9^th^. [Click here for
the invitation](invite.pdf).
### Photo Gallery & Chat Room
You can reach the photo gallery through the top of the page. Here you and
everyone else in attendance may share photos in one big gallery for everyone to
see! Remember to snap lots of pictures! There's also a link to a private chat
room we've built. Feel free to ask us questions about the wedding or send us
well-wishes there!
### What on Earth is Put-in-Bay?
Located in the shallow western end of Lake Erie is a group of 20 or more
islands. One of these, Put-in-Bay or South Bass, served as a base of operations
for Oliver Hazard Perry. It was from the harbor called Put-in-Bay that Perry
sailed to defeat the British fleet under Robert H. Barclay during the war of
1812. The American victory in the battle of Lake Erie gave the country and the
United States Navy a memorable slogan of positive accomplishments, "We have met
the enemy and they are ours..." Today there stands at Put-in-Bay a beautiful
Greek Doric column, the Perry's Victory and International Peace Memorial. This
352-foot granite shaft commemorates not only a naval battle but a peace which
has lasted for more than 150 years. The 3,987-mile boundary between the United
States and Canada is the longest unguarded international frontier in the world.
The brigs, ships, and sloops with their long guns and cannonades are gone.
Their place has been taken by yachts and sailboats. Many captains of these
pleasure craft plot a course for Put-in-Bay seeking relaxation from the
tensions of the city. Others -- yacht-less landlubbers -- board the ferryboats
or airplanes for their trip to an island in Ohio's Lake Erie vacation-land.
Urban and rural tourists have been coming to Put-in-Bay for over 100 years.
From the top of the Perry Memorial, the visitor can observe the site of the
Battle of Lake Erie. He can also probe the depths of the caves, bicycle around
the island, or sip locally produced wine or grape juice.
The earliest visitors were the American Indians. Many Indian arrowheads, stone
axes, and other implements of blue and white flints were turned up during
construction. Indians visited Put-in-Bay when ice conditions allowed the
crossing to hunt raccoons and other animals.
The French explorer and fur trader Louis Jolliet was the first white man to
travel on the lake. An unidentified group of explorers sailed among the islands
in July of 1784. They made charts of the islands, naming one of them Pudding
Bay because the shape of the harbor (or Put-in-Bay) resembled a pudding bag.
Other log books referred to the harbor as Puden Bay. The Lake Erie Islands were
included in the tract of land claimed by Connecticut and which is known as the
Western Reserve. The earliest white inhabitants known to have occupied the
Islands were the French.
Seth Done brought a number of laborers who cleared over 100 acres of land and
planted wheat in the summer and fall of 1811. He also imported 400 sheep and
150 hogs to graze on the acorn and hickory nuts which were abundant on the
island. The first effort to settle on Put-in-Bay ended with the coming of the
war of 1812. The workers were busy threshing grain when British soldiers drove
them off in fall of 1812 and destroyed the remainder of the crop.
Western Lake Erie and the surrounding land areas on Ohio, Michigan and Canadian
Ontario were the scenes of skirmishes and battles during the War of 1812. The
American cause suffered a series of humiliating defeats at the outset of the
struggle. General William Hull's invasion of Canada failed, and Hull, in
disgrace, surrendered Detroit to the British in August 1812. The force under
General James Winchester was annihilated at the River Raisin (Monroe,
Michigan), in January 1813. British and Indian invasions of Ohio at Fort Meigs
(Perrysburg) and at Fort Stephenson (Fremont) were repulsed in May and August.
The turning point of the war in The Old Northwest came with Oliver Hazard
Perry's victory over the British fleet in the Battle of Lake Erie, 10 September
1813. The naval victory made it possible for General William Henry Harrison to
invade Canada and defeat the British and Indians at the River Thames in October
1813.
Put-in-Bay Harbor was used by Perry as a base of operations. From the Bass
Islands, he could quickly sail to Sandusky Bay for conferences with Harrison or
scout the British forces at Fort Malden (Amherstburg, Ontario), in the Detroit
River. When the men and ships were not so engaged, there were training duties
such as preparing the ships for actions and gunnery practice. The American
fleet had sailed from Erie, Pennsylvania, on 12 August 1813 and arrived off
Sandusky Bay on the sixteenth. Perry conferred with Generals Harrison and Lewis
Cass regarding the next step to take in prosecuting the campaign. The British
fleet under Captain Robert H. Barclay was sighted by a lookout in the masthead
of Perry's flagship, the brig Lawrence, at 5:00 a.m., Friday, 10 September
1813. The Battle of Lake Erie began at 11:45 a.m. and ended a few minutes after
3:00 p.m. British supremacy on the lake came to an end with the capture of the
entire enemy fleet of six vessels. The conflict began eight miles northwest of
Put-in-Bay and reached its climax at West Sister Island, fourteen miles away.
The triumphant American captain dashed off a short note on the back of an old
letter to William Henry Harrison:
> U.S. Brig Niagara, Off Western Sister Island head of Lake Erie, Sept. 10, 1813, 4 p.m. <br><br>
> Dear General --
> We have met the enemy and they are ours; two ships, two brigs, one schooner and one sloop. <br><br>
> Yours with great respect and esteem,<br><br>
> O.H. Perry
After the War of 1812, Aschell (Shell) Johnson lived on Put-in-Bay for three
years. The next settlers were Henry and Sally Hyde who came in 1818. The Hydes
brought 500 head of sheep to the island. A.P. Edwards then began to develop
Put-in-Bay, bringing in laborers to erect the necessary buildings. John
Pierpoint built a dock in the harbor and another one known as the West Dock.
The first permanent settler to come to Put-in-Bay was Philip Vroman in 1843. He
settled on the island and remained on the island until his death 68 years
later. In 1845 Gibraltar Island in the harbor was occupied by a group of
government surveyors and engineers who were engaged in making charts of the
lake. They found it necessary to cut a strip 45 feet wide running through the
woods of Put-in-Bay so they could site the instruments properly. The strip was
used as a road by the islanders called "Sight Road". Today it is referred to as
the airport road, officially it is Langram Road.
In 1854 a Spanish merchant name Joseph de Rivera bought South Bass, Middle
Bass, Sugar, Gibraltar, Ballast and Starve Island for a price of $44,000. He
began to develop to islands building a saw mill and a starve mill in the fall
of 1854. He had the county engineer survey the area in 10-acre lots. In the
first ten years, de Rivera sold 42 parcels of land in South and Middle Bass. He
sold a quarter acre of land to the South Bass Board of Education for a dollar.
The park downtown is named de Rivera Park in his honor, and a trust is
responsible for the park and other land still today. The grape-growing and
wine-making industry began in the Lake Erie Island in the 1850s, and
Put-in-Bay's attraction as a historical island resort was being developed.
Large celebrations were held in 1852, 1858, and 1859 honoring Oliver Hazard
Perry's victory over the British in 1813. Put-in-Bay was becoming known for its
delicious grapes and excellent wines and as a place where the vacationist, via
the steamboat, could "get away from it all" for a few hours. The population
grew as farmers came to the island to plant vineyards and as others became
involved in the resort business. About 500 persons were permanent residents of
Put-in-Bay by the early 1860s.
In 1866 a story in the Sandusky Daily Commercial Register told of the growth of
Put-in-Bay township. Islanders owned 103 horses, 165 cattle, 206 hogs and one
mule. The fields were planted in wheat, oats, buckwheat, rye, barley, potatoes,
sorghum, tobacco, hay and clover. The vineyards were a main source of income.
72 acres of vines had been planted in 1865 to bring the total to 422. Grape
production for 1865 totaled 1,117,801 pounds and 33,805 gallons of wine were
pressed. The future looked bright for island farmers.
Local island government was now desired and to this end, John Stone, Simon Fox
and others from the three Bass Islands petitioned the Ottawa County
commissioners for permission to organize Put-in-Bay township. On June 22, 1861,
the electors selected their town trustees. In May of 1876, 15 years later after
the three islands were organized as a township, a portion of South Bass was
incorporated as a village which we now refer to as downtown Put-in-Bay.
St. Paul's Episcopal Church was built in 1865 on land purchased by Jay Cooke
from Jose DeRivera for $10.00 (the land for the school was sold for $1.00). The
deed to the land stipulated it was for the construction of an Episcopal church.
Islanders raised the initial funds to build a church and were financially
assisted by Jay Cooke. Jay Cooke's heirs gave the land to the Episcopal church
in the early 1900s. Mother of Sorrows Roman Catholic Church was established in
1866. The Put-in-Bay Telegraph Company was incorporated in 1873, with a two and
seven-eighth mile cable between Catawba Point and South Bass Island. In the
1930s, dial phones replaced old hand-cranked wall instruments. In May 1906, the
street lighting system was converted to electricity.
In its heyday, around the 1850s to the 1900s, several steamships, some holding
up to 1,500 passengers, serviced the island on a regular basis. Tourists were
treated to a variety of hotels, including 300 x 600 foot Hotel Victory with 625
guest rooms, at that time the largest resort hotel in America featuring the
first coed swimming pool. Elaborate ceremonies were planned for the laying of
the cornerstone of The Victory. Seven steamboats brought 8,000 people to the
island. The Beebe house with a wide hall running 500 feet through the center
had a dining room that could seat nearly a thousand diners. The hotel could
house over 800 persons. Unfortunately, the Victory Hotel caught fire and burned
to the ground before it could be fully utilized.
Put-in-Bay has been a summer resort for more than 100 years. Today, Put-in-Bay
is a vibrant tourist resort complete with bars, hotels, boating, fishing, a
monument, golf cart rentals, caves and much more. For more information on the
history of Put-in-Bay, we suggest you read Isolated Splendor by Robert Dodge
where most of the information for this brief history page was obtained. Come
visit the South Bass Island, or Put-in-Bay as it is better known, and see for
yourself.
Check out more at the [Put-in-Bay](https://www.visitputinbay.com) website.
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