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OUR HISTORY BLOG – We post a variety of unique stories here.

Kelley’s Island’s Greatest Industry – the Kelley’s Island Lime & Transport Co. LOOKING BACK – May 1925 – From the Erie Echo (a small newspaper that was published for all the schools in Erie Co.), the column was called Kelleys Island Ramblings.

THE MUSEUM’S CREEPY DOLL

KELLEYS ISLAND’S NEW HISTORY MUSEUM OFFICIALLY OPENS JUNE 26, 2010

DECORATION DAY (now MEMORIAL DAY) – 1870 & TODAY

JAMES ESTES & THE KELLEYS ISLAND SCHOOL

THE ISLAND’S OLDEST INHABITANT – JACOB HAYES DIES

OCTOBER 1867 – OPERATING A SALOON & SELLING INTOXICATING LIQUORS

​​THE FIRST BURIALS IN THE KELLEYS ISLAND CEMETERY

THE KELLEY’S ISLAND CEMETERY IS ESTABLISHED

LIFE IN THE WINTER ON KELLEYS ISLAND – PART 1, TRAVEL OVER THE ICE IN 1874

LIFE IN THE WINTER ON KELLEYS ISLAND – PART 2 – WINTER AMUSEMENTS

VALENTINE’S DAY ON KELLEYS ISLAND IN THE 1860s

SCHOOL YEARBOOKS – KELLEYS ISLAND STYLE

1952 THE COAST GUARD DELIVERS 254 BARRELS OF FUEL OIL TO THE ISLAND IN MERCY MISSION

A HISTORY OF THE KELLEY’S ISLAND LIME & TRANSPORT CO.

JANUARY 1951 TRUCK FALLS THROUGH ICE – 3 ESCAPE

JEAN ICSMAN MARRIES JOHN LANGE

CELEBRATING THE NEW YEAR-1861 & A WEDDING

THE OTHER INSCRIPTION ROCK ON KELLEYS ISLAND

A FIRST HAND ACCOUNT OF HALLOWEEN TRADITIONS – 1868 ON KELLEYS ISLAND

THIS ISLAND’S STONE FENCES

1875 – THE ISLAND’S TELEGRAPH CABLE (PART 1) HOW IT CAME ABOUT

THE ISLAND’S TELEGRAPH Cable (part 2)

KELLEYS ISLAND AND THE INFLUENZA EPIDEMIC OF 1920

THAT STATUE OF MARY ON TITUS ROAD

THE N. SIDE QUARRY CRUSHER BUILDING

A VIDEO TOUR OF THE KELLEYS ISLAND HISTORY MUSEUM

MEMORIAL DAY ON KELLEYS ISLAND IN 1898