History of the Mohican Sailing Club
John Charles, born 1799 to Irish Immigrants, bought 89 acres in Richland County, where he eventually bought a mill. In 1854 the present mill was built by Daniel Coffman. Contained two run of stone, and rings about two thousand bushels of wheat in a year. The first mill was a…Read More
In 1935-1936 Charles Mill Lake was created by the Army Corps of Engineers for flood control purposes by the building of the dam. The dam, completed in August of 1935, is 48 feet high, 1,390 feet long and 20 feet wide, and includes two dikes and one levee. The final…Read More
(Photo from Mansfield News Journal, Feb. 14 1944. Burning of Quality Furniture Co.) On February 13, 1944 a fire destroyed the Quality Furniture store in Mansfield. Mohican Sailing Club members helped dismantle the destroyed site and saved the salvaged wood until it could be used to build the new clubhouse.…Read More
On Memorial Day weekend, the Mohican Sailing Club held an open house to celebrate the completion of the clubhouse. Several hundred were in attendance (Mansfield News-Journal, May 31, 1946).
1946 marked the first year of a local set of exchange races between the Mohican Sailing Club, Chippewa, and later Mansfield Sailing club. Though nearly every year the race, now called the “Brown Jug,” is very close, Mohican Sailing Club has prevailed 21 times, with 7 contests going to the…Read More
Over the years, the club has been host to several national one-design regattas. One of the first of these was the International Youngquist trophy for the Y-Flyer class. Scuttlebutt 1952 Sept 10