
Photo: Lourdes University, Public domain via Wikimedia Commons
A private Franciscan university. Hosts the Appold Planetarium.
Lourdes University was a private Franciscan university in Sylvania, Ohio. Established in 1958, the university was sponsored by the Sisters of St. Francis of Sylvania. The university closed at the end of the 2025–2026 academic year, with university officials citing declining enrollment and rising costs as the reason.
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Includes a preserved 1858 railway depot, a replica one room schoolhouse made of stone, a replica barn, a log cabin, and a garden commemorating the sister city of Woodstock in Ontario.
Dana Open
Annual golf tournament.
Athletics complex.
This public park lets visitors collect and take home fossils out of a former quarry.