THE TOLEDO CEDAR POINT. 



E. L. Fullmer. 



Several projections of land in Ohio are known locally as 

 Cedar Point. The one here briefly described is in Lucas 

 County on the south shore of Lake Erie and just east of the 

 entrance to Maumee Bay. It is some ten miles from Toledo. 

 Here a large tract of low and swampy land is known as Cedar 

 Point. From the accompanying map based on the United 

 States topographical map of the area an idea of the location 

 and character of this region may be obtained. 



It may be seen that there is a large tract of swampy land 

 extending back from Lake Erie as much as two miles in places. 

 A considerable part of this swamp lying to the south and east 

 of, C, has been reclaimed. Dikes were built across the swamp 

 and the excess water pumped out; large ditches or canals 

 being used to drain the water to the pumping plant. Good 

 crops of onions are now grown on this reclaimed land. 



Just inland from the swamp is a low lying tract, H, of very 

 level land; the surface of which lies but a few feet above the 

 water level in the lake. Ward Canal, W, is a drainage channel 

 cut through this region. When seen by the writer the surface 

 of the non-flowing water in this canal was not more than four 

 feet below the surface of the ground at a distance of three 

 miles from the lake. Of course this level varies somewhat 

 with changes in the lake level and no doubt the water in the 

 canal rises in times of rainfall as some of the higher land still 

 further inland is drained into it. 



Extending all along the swamp on both the bay and the 

 lake sides is a narrow low sandy beach. It is from fifty to two 

 hundred and fifty feet wide and the highest parts are but little 

 above the reach of waves of violent storms. This beach 

 extends in an unbroken line except for one channel, O, opening 

 into the swamp from the lake. This channel is a little over a 

 mile from the extreme end of the land, B, and is a deep water 

 course perhaps some three hundred feet wide where it enters 

 the swamp. It extends back a considerable distance into the 

 swamp and is no doubt kept open by the currents set up as the 

 water flows into and out of the swamp with each change in 

 the level of the lake. 



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