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