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Stone Laboratory is named for Franz Theodore Stone, the father of the donor of Gibraltar Island, Julius Stone. F.T. Stone Laboratory is the nation’s oldest fresh water biological field station.
The field station began in 1895 in Sandusky, Ohio, and moved several times before 1925. Julius Stone, who was a member of the Board of Trustees, purchased Gibraltar Island in 1925 and donated it to the Ohio State University for the biological station.
The university built several buildings on the Island and also inherited Cooke Castle. The castle was the former home of Jay Cooke, a Civil War financier.
Gibraltar Island; Stone Lab from across the bay, 1927
Stone Lab, Gibraltar Island, 1958
Cooke Castle, 2001
For more information about the history of the Laboratory and Island, see: https://senr.osu.edu/news/stone-labs-100-year-history
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