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is a city in Wood County, Ohio, United States, along the Maumee River. The population was 17,042 according to the 2007 census. If combined with the adjacent Perrysburg Township, it would have a total population of 30,747 making it the most populous city in Wood County. It is a suburb of Toledo.
The history of Perrysburg begins with the construction of Fort Meigs. When the war clouds of 1812 began to creep upon Northwest Ohio, fort construction began in February 1813 by soldiers under General William Henry Harrison. Harrison was General Anthony Wayne's former aide-de-camp and would later be elected as the country's ninth president. The construct was named Fort Meigs in honor of Ohio's fourth governor, Return Jonathan Meigs. Fort Meigs was constructed on a bluff above the Maumee River, and created from a design by army engineer Captain Eleazer D. Wood, for whom the county would be named. Two critical battles with the British would be fought at the fort during the War of 1812.
Early settlers in the area fled to Huron during the War of 1812 and returned settling in the floodplain below Fort Meigs. Perrysburg was surveyed and platted on April 26, 1816 and soon became a center for shipbuilding and commerce.
A cholera epidemic of 1854 decimated the population and the town literally closed down for two months in that summer. More than 100 people perished.
Perrysburg is the only city in the United States, besides Washington D.C., that was originally planned by the Federal Government.