Lake Erie: A Pictorial History

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A detailed and richly illustrated history.

To create this unprecedented number of photographs and essays, the authors spent years visiting museums and archives, and interviewed Lake Erie experts, from professional historians to longtime residents. The result’s Lake Erie a remarkable portrait of day-to-day life, industry and commerce in this dynamic Great Lake.

The outlet of the Erie Canal in 1825 connected the Hudson River to the Great Lakes and unleashed the financial potential of the American interior. The industrialists who situated factories with in a position get right of entry to to raw materials soon turned into legends: Rockefeller, Henry Wells and William Fargo, Sherwin and Williams, Charles Brush and Thomas Edison, Harvey Firestone, B.F. Goodrich, Carnegie, Frick, Westinghouse and Mellon.

The book is divided into chapters covering:

  • The lake’s prehistory
  • Early settlement
  • Role within the American Revolution
  • Economic boom from 1815 to 1880
  • High Industrial period from 1880 to 1945
  • History of dramatic storms, shipwrecks
  • Role within the Underground Railroad and Prohibition
  • Wealth of flora and fauna
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