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A FORGOTTEN PORT and Log Towing Revenue Cutters Submitted by: CAPT. FRANK E. HAMILTON About thirteen miles from Toledo at the eastern end of the Jerusalem Road (which must have been an Indian trail) and where present-day Route 2 makes a sharp turn to the south, stands the town of Bono. In the early 1860's the Detroit capitalist, Eber Brock Ward, acquir- ed 8.177 acres of timber land on what was known as the Howard Farms. This desolate tract of land, ed from all communications, Ward of Jerusalem, New Jerusalem. A two-and-a-half mile canal, 60 to 150 feet wide, with a depth of about 15 feet was dug to connect Paw Paw, or Cedar Creek with Lake Erie. Piers were built 250 feet out into the lake to protect the isolat- reminded and he named it mouth of the canal. The canal became known as Ward's Canal and the set- tlement, New Jerusalem, was on its north bank. In 1879 a shipyard and sawmill was built on the north bank, about half way to the lake and a plank road was built to the shipyard. At this time a cut-off canal was dug north of the town which put the settlement on the south side of the canal. A large home, a boarding house, stables, and a race track were built. In 1872-76, Ward employed as many as a hundred men, and Daniel Shepard was the man- ager of the shipyard. Homes were built for the men and the place got to be known as Shepardsville, but on applying for a Post Office it was discovered that Ohio already had a Post Office by that name. The name then selected was Bono in honor of an Indian who had been a commercial fisherman on Kelleys Island for a while. The Bono Post Office was op- ened on December 17, 1898. It is worthy of note that on both 1860 and 1870 maps of Lucas County, Howards Farms and the surrounding territory were in a Michigan survey. Ward's mill shipped a lot of 248 feet by 24 inch square timber to the Soo, was shipped to Ward's Wyandotte rol- and much other timber and wood ling mill, which had a charcoal iron furnace. In 1871 the schooner-barge MERCURY of 232 tons was built for Nat Engle- man, of Milwaukee, at a cost of $6,500, at the New Jerusalem ship- yard. In 1872 the schooner-barge MARS of 234 tons was built for the Sam Ward Estate, cost of $7,000. of Conneaut, at a