Water has shaped Perrysburg’s history since the city’s earliest days.
“Right below Fort Meigs, back from around 1814 until 1832, there was a little settlement there. … It was called Orleans of the North,” said Gary Franks, a local historian. “After the town got wiped out by the spring floods, they finally said ‘Gee, we ought to move to higher ground.’ That, of course, was to the east in Perrysburg, and the highest point in Perrysburg is probably right around Hood Park, there at Louisiana and Front streets.”…