Today, the City of Tiffin dedicated Clouse-Kirian Leadership Park in conjunction with the unveiling of a State historical marker for the founding of Tiffin. Leadership Park began as the community project of the 2014 Leadership Seneca County class. As part of the nine month course in leadership and civic participation, the class raised $25,000 to create a community park in downtown Tiffin. The city matched $20,000, creating a fund of $55,000 for the park. The park was designed but put on hold due to potential development on the chosen site. In late 2015, the project was revived when Lenny Clouse purchased the building at 22 S. Washington St., demolished it, and sold the land to the city at cost. From there, two more grants were secured from the National Machinery and Meschech Frost Charitable Trust to cover the funding gap created by the change in location, and the construction of Clouse-Kirian Leadership Park began. Also dedicated at the Leadership Park site was Seneca County's twelfth historical marker. The Seneca County Historical Society worked with the Ohio History Connection to place an Ohio Historical Marker denoting 1822 as the founding year of the town. The text of the marker reads: "In 1822 Josiah Hedges purchased the land that would become Tiffin from the Delaware Land Office. By March, this land, situated across the Sandusky River from old Fort Ball (War of 1812) was surveyed and platted by General James Hedges, the brother of Josiah. These events marked the founding year for the city of Tiffin, which was named after Edward Tiffin, Ohio's first governor and a friend of Josiah Hedges. The legislature commissioned Thomas Henford, Isaac Minor and Cyrus Spink to establish Tiffin as the permanent seat of justice for Seneca County on March 25, 1822." You can find a complete list of Ohio Historical Markers at Remarkable Ohio. [gallery ids="https://tiffinseneca.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/leadership-park.jpg|,https://tiffinseneca.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/img_20180626_112013.jpg|Maker:L,Date:2017-8-22,Ver:5,Lens:Kan03,Act:Kan02,E-Y,https://tiffinseneca.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/img_20180626_111128.jpg|Maker:L,Date:2017-8-22,Ver:5,Lens:Kan03,Act:Kan02,E-Y,https://tiffinseneca.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/img_20180626_111157.jpg|Maker:L,Date:2017-8-22,Ver:5,Lens:Kan03,Act:Kan02,E-Y,https://tiffinseneca.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/img_20180626_111830.jpg|Maker:L,Date:2017-8-22,Ver:5,Lens:Kan03,Act:Kan02,E-Y,https://tiffinseneca.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/img_20180626_111835.jpg|Maker:L,Date:2017-8-22,Ver:5,Lens:Kan03,Act:Kan02,E-Y" type="slideshow"]