Manhattan Marsh Nature Preserve, The Buckeye Basin (Toledo, Ohio)

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The Manhattan Marsh wetlands area is one of the last remaining areas of estuarine marsh land in the City of Toledo. This complex consists of several areas of wetlands, interconnected by Detwiler Creek, also known as "Detwiler Dredged Ditch, Marsh Drainage District No. 44". This marsh was once the estuary of Swan Creek, which wound through present-day Downtown Toledo and then towns of Port Lawrence, Vistula, and Manhattan. The first two small towns later merged to become the City of Toledo. It's smaller neighbor, the village of Manhattan, could not expand, as it was hemmed in by the Maumee River on one side, and what is labeled as "Lagune" on the oldest maps of the area. The largest remaining portion of that lagoon is named for its former neighbor, Manhattan.