Fun Facts About Rossford

The Sam Frautschi and Sons Dry Goods, Notions, and Hardware Store (built in 1910), later Frautschi Brothers Hardware, was a longstanding favorite of residents. In the early days, residents, many of them immigrants who only spoke Slovak, German, Hungarian, Polish, and Ukrainian would try to communicate what they needed by using their hands. Sam’s young son, Arnold, who would later own the store with his brother, Russ, would ask his father to interpret their requests in English.