Sylvania (Ohio)

Sylvania is a small city of 19,000 people (2020) in Ohio Erie shore west. Sylvania is a northwestern suburb of Toledo, on the Ohio side of the border with Michigan.

Understand
Named for the dense forests that once made up the region, part of the Great Black Swamp, the city is built on large shale deposits, which over hundreds of years have been mined in quarries to make concrete, cement and other stone products.

By car
US 23 and US 233 cuts through the east end of Sylvania running north to Michigan and south to Holland, Ohio.

See

 * A steel beam from the World Trade Center forms part of the 9/11 First Responders Last Call Memorial at the Toledo Memorial Park Cemetery.
 * A steel beam from the World Trade Center forms part of the 9/11 First Responders Last Call Memorial at the Toledo Memorial Park Cemetery.
 * A steel beam from the World Trade Center forms part of the 9/11 First Responders Last Call Memorial at the Toledo Memorial Park Cemetery.

Go next

 * Toledo