by Mary Wakefield Buxton –
URBANNA —
My hometown, Vermilion, Ohio, took down Grandfather’s home this month. Built in 1906 in the heart of town, it overlooked Lake Erie and the harbor of the Vermilion River. It was home to my grandparents and their nine children, one of whom was my father. After my grandparents’ deaths, it served for many decades as a Great Lakes museum to which relatives added a two-story annex to the original home and built an exact replica of the 19th century lighthouse on the property that had once stood at the end of the western pier on the Vermilion River.
