• Plans are afoot for Perrysburg Township’s bicentennial in 2023. Pictured from left are: Jeff Justus, committee chairman; township trustees, Joe Schaller, Bob Mack, and Gary Britten. At center, Way Public Library local history librarian and committee co-chairman Richard Baranowski displays two township historical record books.
    Plans are afoot for Perrysburg Township’s bicentennial in 2023. Pictured from left are: Jeff Justus, committee chairman; township trustees, Joe Schaller, Bob Mack, and Gary Britten. At center, Way Public Library local history librarian and committee co-chairman Richard Baranowski displays two township historical record books.

    Perrysburg Township’s Bicentennial is approaching. Its birthday is May 8, 2023.

    On that day in 1823, the county commissioners met at Samuel Spafford’s cabin adjacent to his brother Aurora’s house (now the Perrysburg Area Historical Museum) to formalize this historic event.

    Before Perrysburg Township, it was Waynesfield Township, which encompassed Wood County and stretched across the Maumee River and…