Blood & Biohazard Cleanup Near Island View Marblehead, OH

Marblehead is a village in Ottawa County, Ohio, sitting at the tip of the Marblehead Peninsula, which divides Lake Erie proper from Sandusky Bay.

The village takes its name from its shoreline stone, which early settlers mistook for marble but is actually limestone.

Marblehead was officially incorporated in 1891, after an 1880s railroad around the peninsula boosted its limestone quarries and workforce.

The Marblehead Lighthouse, built of native limestone in 1821 and first lit in 1822, is the oldest continuously operating lighthouse on the American side of the Great Lakes and is now the centerpiece of Marblehead Lighthouse State Park.

Marblehead Lighthouse was the first lighthouse on the Great Lakes to have a female lighthouse keeper.

Blocks of Marblehead stone cut between 1877 and 1881 were hauled across the lakes to build the Stannard Rock Light on Lake Superior.

Marblehead remains commercially important as a major limestone producer, with quarry stone moved by conveyor belt to a loading dock for lake freighters, and it hosts a U.S. Coast Guard station.

The village is home to the Lakeside Daisy State Nature Preserve, which protects the only natural U.S. population of the endangered Lakeside Daisy.

Marblehead had a population of just 865 at the 2020 census, and the 2010 census counted 417 households — a small year-round community that swells with tourists each summer.

Marblehead is part of Ohio's 'Vacationland' region, offering ferry service to the Lake Erie Islands and sitting across Sandusky Bay from Cedar Point and near the Lakeside Chautauqua community.