Search:

Kitty,

First of all "Welcome to the group"! It is always great meeting another Girty's Island fan.

I would love to get in touch with you. You hold the answers to the period I am missing in...

This makes since. Simon. By history accounts, was the colorful one of the family. The one noted as a "traitor or white salvage:, so it makes since that history has been twisted (for a better lack...

Yes, it is fun! I have truly enjoyed studying the history all along the Maumee River. Last weekend some friends told me that the old time candy store in Grand Rapids use to sell different books the...

Well that is some great information. I thought the island was named after Simon. What do you know about the homestead that Simon built on the south side of the river, now the Gunn farm?
...

Hi Gust,


Welcome to the party! I started this posting back in Jan 2008 and I can't believe how much information I have received or how it has brought so many people together. You must be...

Actually your oral history may be more right then you think. I bet the disease you speak of is cholera and/or malaria. From the book "Shades of Providence", many, many workers lost their lives due...

Thank you again! I know exactly what small island you are talking about (Chicken Island). I was wondering about that small piece of land and if it was once a part of Girty's Island that water have...

Thank you very much for the additional information. My research has told me there was a bowling alley on the island and that has always puzzled me because I was thinking in today's terms. You have...

Thanks for the information, I will check it out. Maybe it will help me understand why the Native Americans where told where to live vs. everyone living together as neighbors. Those were tough times...

I am in agreement with "Oneguyinohio" that Simon Girty may have been the first activist noted in history, not a "Scoundrel". The way I see it, the Native Americans would have used a few more Simon...

Good Lord, if you could get me a copy of the map showing the lay out of the park words could not describe how thankful I would be.

I contacted a very nice gentlemen from the Henry County...

I agree with you! Here is his story GREATLY summarized: When Simon was a young boy living in Pennsylvania, the French and Indian War happened. He and his family sought safety with the Delaware...

That is wonderful information! If your grandfather was born on the island, then a home once stood on the island also. Would you know the general location of the home? How did they get to and from...

Yes, I am VERY familiar with the river bottom and I am still laughing! That was good! :)

This is just a personal quest. When I first started boating, friends who grown up on the river took me...

I am familiar with the Gunn family name. The land they live on is still called Girty's Point. Simon Girty had a log cabin on that land that still stood when the Gunn family took over the land many,...

Thank you very much for your information. So far I have found a particle bottle (the very top and the opening). My friend who was with me is a chemist and told me to keep it for two reasons. The...

This is great news! That means that the facts I found this past weekend is true! Who doesn't drop some change at an amusement part. Wouldn't it be great to find an old dime or quarter from the...

Again, I want to thank you for your info. I now have Professor Buchman's e-mail (it only took an hour of searching. Found him at Defiance College) and I plan on e-mailing him next.

The island is...

No I haven't, but I will now. Thank you so much! My search started three years ago with a ghost story of Simon Girty of Girty's Island from a friend who grew up on the river. I had no idea how...

Happy New Year Everyone!

I am currently researching Girty's Island in the Maumee River, near Florida Ohio. Looking for artifacts from a time long ago.

So far I know that Simon Girty hid...