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equal size and capacity. M. Stalker, of the Amaranth is to take charge of the vessel when she goes out.103 Fries and Raynor went on to build the schooners Charles Foster (1877), Golden Age (1882), and propeller William Edwards (1879). But the prospect of steel-hulled ships and, again, rising costs of timber and labor, made it impractical to carry on the building wooden vessels. Today the site of the shipyard has reverted to farmland, with of only an occasional fisherman to interrupt the solitude. Sandusky104 Sandusky has one of the best-formed natural harbors on the south shore of Lake Erie. Marblehead Peninsula forms a natural barrier, leaving only a narrow entrance at the northeast corner of Sandusky Bay. The eastern end of the Bay is formed by Cedar Point. The earliest established shipyard at Sandusky was that of Augustus Jones who also operated one at Black River. His first steamer at Sandusky was the Ohio, launched on May 30, 1830: Her engine is of a new construction on these waters, having two vibrating cylinders, and their Pistons attached to the shaft at right angles; the whole engine enclosure of the Boilers occupies a space of only 6 feet square. Her cabins are on the main deck, above which a hurricane deck extends the whole length of the boat, and she stows about 600 barrels in her hold.105 In 1832 Jones built the schooner Marie Antoinette, probably named for one of his daughters. In 1834 he launched another small steamer, the Jack Downing. In 1835 he built the steamer Sandusky, and the next year, the Cincinnati. With the exception of the Sandusky the steamers thus far built at Sandusky were designed for service on the rivers and bays rather than for regular lake service. The Cincinnati ran from Perrysburgh to Cleveland, touching at all intermediate ports. Following the pattern of small steamers, he launched the Commerce in the spring of 1837. The last vessel built by Jones, under the supervision of his son, William A. Jones, was the steamer Saginaw in 1838. Following the opening of the Ohio Canal, it was obvious that Cleveland, rather than Sandusky, would become the landing place for goods moving west and south. As a result, Jones sold his yard to Daniel Dibble. Dibble was born in Connecticut in 1800. He arrived at Sandusky in 1833 and went to work for Augustus Jones. In 1838, he and Francis Pratt were appointed inspectors of hulls and machinery of steamboats for the 63