bananajoe

there are alot of ornate old victorian/turn of the century homes in tiffin. if you take a drive in the areas that surround the downtown area of tiffin and by tiffin university you will notice a large variety of old oppulant houses that have been well maintained for the most part. I read somewhere maybe xpedia.com that tiffin had alot of wealth at one point in its history. Im sure this was because of the industrial era at the turn of the century and the railroad before that. There is a museum in tiffin near frost pkwy close to the historic Fort Ball area of town and you can learn alot about the history of the area there.

I remember going there as a little kid, being from nortwest ohio we normally took our day trips to the port clinton/sandusky areas but once in a while my dad would take us up to "geneva on the lake" not be mistaken with "geneva" which is a city in ottawa county in north west ohio...i remember getting into the water and it was all stone and the water got real deep real fast...i was used to being able to walk a good 50 feet before the water even got above my knees...today i dont think id ever swim in the lake. totally get grossed out. fish and filth and gross..give me a cement pond any day! we had fun but if i had a choose i think port clinton and sandusky has more stuff to do aside from cedar point.

Well what I have heard from my family in Tiffin about the courthouse is that the governor has interviened on the issue because there was a very hot debate and the Toledo Blade picked up alot of the news coverage. The governor had said he would find a way to free up somme state funds to help rebuild the courthouse to its prior glory however that was some time ago and i havent heard an update on the crisis since then. But the community wants to keep the building but they dont want to pay for it...go figure

I just miss Tiffin, as far as small towns go i dont think you could have a better one...of course im partial to the area.

Well as a northern ohioan i hear southern accents from anyone south of columbus. It is very distinct especially in the south east part of the state where west virginia has a large influence. However I am from Northwest ohio and i believe i have more of a chicago/canadian dialect. ohio is very divided in that sense

looks like a bribe to the county governments to me.

Those states can have casino gambling! The only thing its going to benifit is the casino owners.. have you seen the development around the casinos in detroit? oh wait their isnt any..Peopl who go to casinos dont venture into the areas surrounding it...they go straight tot he casino and waste their money when they could be investing it into their future like paying their mortgage payments, or buying health insurance, or providing or their families, we dont need the "evils" of gambling to help our state grow. And we already had a referendum on casino gambling and it failed. we need to move and develop our states natural wonders rather then depend on stupid people throwing money away to big corperations.

I am kind of upset that i haven't seen Tiffin mentioned as much as it should be. Tiffin is 100% Ohio..Its in North West part of the state in Seneca County right on the Sandusky River. Its a quaint town of about 17,000 people, its out of the way its practically perfect to live and work and raise a family. I don't know about vacation spot but if you want to meet some down home people that aren't aggravated, frustrated, frazzled or even impolite then Tiffin is the place for you. There is always a debate in Tiffin about its potential to become more then a sleepy college town off the beaten path. I see now that I'm a resident of the Cleveland metropolitan area that Tiffin doesn't need to grow, its isolation is bliss. Leave your doors unlocked at night. Walk through the worst part of town at 3am and feel 100% safe. Let your kids roam and discover the streets and neighborhoods as I did and as every generation has done before me. It truly feel that Tiffin is a great town to live. However Tiffin is not a place to be if you want to live in anonymity. The community is very active and you know your neighbor and their family and their extended family and their friends of their extended family. It truly is a great place to live. Tiffin is just not some Podunk small town either. There is plenty of culture in the area. With Heidelberg College and Tiffin University providing an educated work force to the area along with the Ritz Theatre acting as a venue for some of the best traveling shows and celebrities a small town could possibly get. Tiffin is also smacked dab in the middle of an area that is hotly contested in general elections. The Toledo television market had more money spent on campaign ads in the 2004 general election then any other television market in the country with a focus on the small rural towns in north west Ohio and of those swing towns being Tiffin having a Democratic Mayor at the time but voting for bush in 2000. Tiffin has proven itself as its own community without being dependant on big roads, tourism, shopping, big Industry, or even Agriculture. It has a healthy mix in a central location with small town values that truly is the epitome of what it means to be an Ohioan by my definition.