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Cairo and Gomer, Ohio |
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 Cairo
(pop: 500) and Gomer (pop: 350). The Gomer area is famous for its Welsh settlers and also had one of the first "mall" concepts back in the Lincoln Highway days, with a post office, hardware, grocery store and filling station under one roof. You can still spot this building. In 1937, Ripley's Believe It or Not also listed Gomer as the only US town with all white houses on its main street! Wow!
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A historical marker memorializing the Welsh settlements of Gomer, Ohio. |
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November 1, 1939, the Snow Cruiser built for
Admiral Byrd's Antarctic explorations entering Upper Sandusky.
Earlier, it had run off the road east of Gomer
and crashed into a small ditch. The event brought in the national media attention and an
estimated 125,000 spectators.
It finally made it to port, was shipped
to Antarctica, where the monster truck broke through the ice and sunk
to the bottom of the sea. Who'd have seen that one coming? |
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In Cairo is the "Lincoln Log Cabin." The original part of this cabin
was built in 1848.
It was built to cruise Antarctica, it got stuck in a ditch.
