Editing Clyde, Ohio (section)

==History==
In the 1700s, the area of Ohio, including present-day Clyde, was inhabited by the [[Wyandot people|Wyandot]] tribe.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Buser|first1=C.A.|title=Wyandots in Ohio|url=http://www.wyandotte-nation.org/culture/history/general-history/wyandots-in-ohio/|website=Wyandotte Nation|access-date=28 June 2016}}</ref> The distinction of first settler of Clyde goes to Jesse Benton. Claims that the first settler was Samuel Pogue are not entirely wrong as sometime during the war of 1812, Pogue drove a stake near the spring in the west part of Clyde with the intention of settling there after the war concluded. When Pogue returned in 1820 to take formal possession of the land, he found Jesse Benton had already built a cabin on the land. Shortly after Pogues arrival, Benton ceded his claim of the land to Pogue for a barrel of whiskey. Pogue lived in the Benton cabin until his death in 1828.<ref>[https://archive.org/details/HistoryOfSanduskyCountyOhioWithIllustrations1882/page/n620 "History of Sandusky County Ohio with Illustrations 1882"], ''Originally Published by H.Z. Williams and Bro., Cleveland, Ohio 1882''</ref><ref>[http://www.ohiomemory.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15005coll19/id/449 "Early History of Clyde"], ''The Early History of Clyde by W.W. Kastrup, Editor of the Clyde Enterprise''</ref>

Clyde was named after [[Clyde, New York]].<ref>{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_rtkyAQAAMAAJ | title=Twentieth Century History of Sandusky County, Ohio and Representative Citizens | publisher=Whipporwill Publications | author=Meek, Basil | year=1909 | pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_rtkyAQAAMAAJ/page/n296 311]}}</ref>

Early in the 20th century, Clyde joined the [[automobile]] revolution, hosting the pioneering [[brass era]] company, [[Elmore Manufacturing Company]]. Elmore was taken over by [[General Motors]] in 1909 and operations were moved to Detroit in 1919. However, Louis Krebs resigned from Elmore when General Motors took over and formed his own company which later became the [[Clydesdale Motor Truck Company]]. After General Motors moved out, Krebs acquired their site in Clyde for his own operations.<ref>Tiffany Willey Middleton, James M. Semon, ''The Clydesdale Motor Truck Company: An Illustrated History, 1917-1939'', pp. 18-21, McFarland, 2013 {{ISBN|0786475870}}.</ref> The buildings, by this time owned by Clyde Porcelain Steel, burned down on November 11, 1945.

The [[Whirlpool Corporation]] purchased the Clyde Porcelain Steel Co. in 1952. It began producing washing machines there and then purchased the adjacent property of the [[Bendix Corporation]] in 1954, which produced belt-driven washing machines, making it the sole producer of washing machines in the area for the next six decades.

President Donald Trump visited Whirlpool Corporation in Clyde on August 6, 2020, as part of the 2020 United States presidential election campaign.<ref name=wtol2020/> Trump was the first president to visit Sandusky County in over 100 years.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-08-05 |title=Trump to be 1st president to visit Sandusky County in over 100 years |url=https://www.wtol.com/article/news/local/trump-visits-clyde-ohio-thursday/512-59922dc1-b34e-4316-9d17-79dfbe366d4f |access-date=2024-02-06 |website=wtol.com |language=en-US}}</ref>

===Cancer cluster===
{{main|Clyde cancer cluster}}
In 2006, the [[Ohio Department of Health]] recognized that the incidence of child cancer cases in the Clyde area was abnormally high, and in 2007, the [[Ohio Environmental Protection Agency]] started investigating possible causes.<ref>{{cite web | title = News 11 Special Report: Cancer Cluster | publisher = [[WTOL]] | last = Walsh | first = Jonathan | date = 6 November 2008 | url = http://www.fox19.com/story/9306054/news-11-special-report-cancer-cluster | access-date = 2015-12-30 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20151227014407/http://www.fox19.com/story/9306054/news-11-special-report-cancer-cluster | archive-date = 27 December 2015 | url-status = dead }}</ref> After the [[Ohio Environmental Protection Agency]] carried out soil tests in the [[Whirlpool Corporation]]'s former corporate park, Whirlpool Park, in Green Springs, Ohio, it was apparent that soil on the property contained [[polychlorinated biphenyl]]s. Whirlpool Corporation faced two lawsuits as the park is perhaps the most well known suspected{{by whom|date=December 2017}} cause of the cluster. This lawsuit was dismissed in 2014, and the other, ''Sandusky County v. Whirlpool Corporation'', was withdrawn in 2015. In January 2016, the EPA reported that Whirlpool Park had been cleared of PCB contamination.<ref name="USEPA">{{cite web|title=Eastern Sandusky County Assessment Project|url=https://www3.epa.gov/region5/cleanup/easternsandusky/|website=www3.epa.gov/region5/cleanup/easternsandusky/|publisher=EPA|access-date=22 March 2016}}</ref>