When Jennifer Boresz Engelking was in seventh grade she found herself fascinated by local historical lore about a shipwreck. “I found a paper I wrote from seventh grade and it actually said in it, ...

A photo of the Mohawk Island lighthouse on Lake Erie shows the isolation that the lighthouse keeper experienced during his time at the lighthouse during the talk Erie Lights & Lighthouse Lore on ...

The Great Lakes Seaway Trail is an incredible community asset along Lake Erie in Hamburg. The center features information on ...

Though the movement began at the turn of the century, it flourished in the hinterlands along the Erie Canal, which became ...

Initially, the canal was just 4 feet deep and 40 feet wide, but it cut through fields and forests, cliffs and swamps, and ...

Over nine hundred official company photographs documenting the history of the railroad. Subjects include trains, locomotives and cars; employees and employee gatherings and events; structures such as ...

Tsunami waves sent people looking for higher ground in Hawaii on July 29. Waves also reached the West Coast of the United States after one of the strongest earthquakes in recorded history struck off ...

PUT-IN-BAY, Ohio — On Thursday, a Lake Erie cruise ship - known as Goodtime I - became grounded on a reef in western Lake Erie near South Bass Island. Several WTOL 11 viewers asked if it's true that ...

Her interest in environmental history grew out of her Ph.D. in the history of science ... The state’s canal system connects five watersheds and several large bodies of water including Lake Erie and ...

More than any other historical event, the opening of the Erie Canal, on Oct. 26, 1825, set Chicago on the path to becoming the city it is today.

Williamson’s walleye was weighed for the Walleye Slam at Erie Outfitters in Sheffield Lake, where owner Craig Lewis noted ...