We are staying here in Archbold primarily to kill time until we can get into our site in Canton. The parks in the Canton area are full on the weekends and we could only find one nice park that had a site available for the full 4 weeks we will be in Canton, but it was not available until the 15thof September. Staying here in Archbold breaks the drive up and helps us kill time. We used the time to catch up with house chores, David’s work, and getting packages sent off (sorry Lauren and Cynthia that your birthday gifts are so late!). As we came back in to the park on Thursday, there was a small pop up farmers market where we stopped and picked up some locally grown vegetables, raw honey, and Ohio Maple Syrup. Mmmm Good!
The Sauder Heritage RV park is next to a historical recreated village of the area in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s. Many of the structures date back to the late 1800’s and were moved to this recreated village from surrounding communities. There is also an adjacent hotel. This area of Ohio was called the Black Swamp since it was a 100 mile by 40 mile swamp extending from Lake Huron until European Settlers to the area in the early 1800s drained the swamp and turned it into farms. We toured the Heritage Village on Friday (Normally a $17 per person entrance fee but we got there late and only had to pay $7 per person). The Sauder family heritage is based on wood working of all kinds. So the village featured a couple of old wood working shops with hand held and human powered wood working tools. In addition there was a Copperage (wood barrels and buckets), glass forming/blowing, local museum, quilting, and they were opening a 1920s section of the park this weekend.
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