- Allen
- Auglaize
- Crawford
- Darke
- Defiance
- Erie
- Fulton
- Hancock
- Hardin
- Henry
- Huron
- Logan
- Lorain
- Lucas
- Mercer
- Morrow
- Ottawa
- Paulding
- Putnam
- Richland
- Sandusky
- Seneca
- Shelby
- Van Wert
- Williams
- Wood
- Wyandot
The small community on the Sandusky Turnpike as it was called back in the 1820s when Silas and Oliver Chatfield arrived here. The Chatfield brothers only lived here for a few years before selling their farm and moving into western Ohio, they did stay long enough to give the little community their name.
It must have startled some of the early settlers to the area to wake up and suddenly see wigwams had sprung up near the cranberry bog. Every year almost like clockwork, a number of Wyandot Indians would arrive every fall along the edge of the great cranberry marsh located just east of the town to collect as many cranberries as possible before moving on in the spring. Whenever they collected enough that two ponies could carry, a small group of them would take the harvest over to Sandusky where they could sell their harvest for cloth and other supplies that would help make their lives easier.
©
Ohio City Productions, Inc.
All Rights Reserved.