The Blade
Inscription
The Toledo Blade is the city’s oldest continuing business. The newspaper was first published on December 19, 1835, during the Ohio-Michigan boundary dispute known as the “Toledo War.” The name is derived from that conflict and the famous swords of Toledo, Spain. A copy of the first edition and two gift swords from that Spanish city are displayed inside the Blade Building.
[Side B]: David Ross Locke, editor (1865-1888), made The Blade nationally known. Using the pseudonym, Petroleum V. Nasby, Locke gained fame for his satirical Nasby Letters and advocacy of social reforms.On May 1, 1927, President Coolidge assisted Paul Block, Blade publisher (1926-1941), by touching a gold key at the White House to officially start the presses at this location.
Location
Sources
More markers in Lucas
Sisters of St. Francis of Sylvania, Ohio
Sylvania, OH
In 1916, Bishop of Toledo Joseph Schrembs requested that the Sisters of Saint Francis, Rochester, Minnesota, send nuns to work with...
The Sight Center of Northwest Ohio
Toledo, OH
Joseph F. Clunk, a blind Ohioan and an advocate for workforce development, inspired Toledo leaders in 1923 to serve their blind community.
Ella P. Stewart (1893-1987) / Stewart’s Pharmacy (1922-1945)
Toledo, OH
Ella Nora Phillips Myers Stewart was one of the first practicing Black women pharmacists in the United States.
Ward’s Canal
To utilize the area’s rich timber stands, Detroit industrialist Eber Brock Ward (1811-1875) built a canal around 1870 in what was then...
Willys-Overland Finishing Plant
Toledo, OH
Willys-Overland Finishing Plant.