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To River Rat from Earlye -- Check Oct 1, 2008 -- KittyKat -- Some info there about G/I in the 1970s.

To King Riffle from Early -- Buck Waisner had brothers, one of whom was "Penny" Waisner whose son was a playmate of mine in the 1930s.

From EARLY -- Downstream from Napoleon - perhaps just downstream from the present hospital - is or was an island known in the 1910 to 1915 era, as Peach Island because of the peach trees on it. My...

To oneguyinohio from EARLY -- Don't know the names except for Dirr - a hardware store in Napoleon? Some retail establishment, as I recall it.

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To oneguyinohio from EARLY -- My mother's family names are Lewis (mother) and Yorges (father); one of my mother's sisters married a Shultz and her father's sister a Scofield and another one a Peters....

To RiverRat1 --from EARLY It just occurred to me that you may be interested in a bit of information, not related to Girty's Island but to the Maumee river. I've told you about my...

To GUST from EARLY -- 5:30 pm and no e-mail. Let's work through RR! Since I haven't been able to right click a name either.

To GUST -- from Early -- I've never done it but here is a message from RR1 "----- by right clicking your mouse under the person's name. From there you choose 'send a private message' ". EARLY

My picture was sent to RiverRat1's E-mail address. I don't have yours so can't send it to you - I would if I could. EARLY

To RiverRat1 -- I have sent a picture to your E-mail address - wonder if it got through. /s/ Early

I have sent a picture of Girty's Island to your E-mail address - wonder if it got through. /s/ Early

From EARLY -- I forgot to answer - no I am not in the Henry / Defiance county area - about 75 miles from it. The family farm was sold in the 1980s and my last relative died in 1998 so I have little...

From EARLY -- My family, as I wrote several messages ago, had an association with Girty's Island in the 1930s when my aunt and uncle rented the big house on the island. They lived there for a few...

To RiverRat1 -- What sight? I found no WEB address for a map in your letter. I have GlobeXplorer Image Atlas and National Geographic Map Machine now. Both are good. EARLY

To RIVERRAT1 -- from EARLY -- I referred to Butterfield's history of the Girtys in one of my blurbs -- At our library today, I checked Butterfield for Grand Glaize and found it to be, according to...

From EARLY --- One more item - try "GlobalExplorer ImageAtlas" for an aerial photo - topographical map - & several other views of the Island. A good look at the location of the Gunn cemetery on the...

From EARLY -- The Gunn farm is on the north side of the river east of the island, still, I believe, occupied by descendants of the Gunns. (Eberlys.) (Rte. 424 is on the north side.) And the Gunn...

RIVERRAT -- In reading History of Western Ohio and Auglaize County recently, I read a section about James Girty. (It was taken from Butterfield's History of the Girtys, page 318.) In summary,...

TO RIVERRAT1 --
1. My aunt and uncle only rented the big house on Girty's Island for a few years. As I noted before, they later built a small house on the towpath.
2. In 1936, the house, dance...

T o RiverRat1 from EARLY -- a few more memories of Henry County. At Independence Dam at Independence, Ohio, (Defiance County but on the Miami-Erie Canal) there was, during the 1930s, a time of ...

Just one more -- checking the satellite picture, I see Chicken Island at the northeast section of Girty's and it is smaller than the 50 acres I said it might be. Looks more like one or two but it...

One more - this one a suggestion --- try:

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/map-machine#theme=Street&c=0|0&sf=187648892.534865

By working your"clicks" properly, you can get a satellite picture...

From EARLY -- Just thought of something else. Seems to me that I remember that Girty's Island is really two islands - one a small one, maybe 50 acres, at the downstream end. The small one was known...

Sorry that I can't provide answers, but after 72 years or so -----?? I don't recall the construction of the bowling alley - I believe that the wall separating it from the dance floor was a low one. ...

GIRTY’S ISLAND -- by EARLY --- May, 2008

In the Maumee river, about five miles upstream from Napoleon, Ohio, there is Girty’s Island, At the turn of the 19th/20th century, there was a...