This sharp aerial view, looking north, shows the large peninsula that once extended east of the downtown from the end of Birchard Avenue in Fremont. It was known as the Hobo Jungle at the time of this ...

There are two types of "hobo gatherings." There's the organized type and there's the type that just happen. Both take place in what's called a hobo jungle. A hobo jungle is the place where hobos ...

The Hobo Jungle, about 1930. Before the construction of the floodwall in the early 1970s, the Sandusky River looped east to behind where the Kroger store stood on South Fifth Street. That loop, seen ...