lake erie

     

The new $92 million Rock and Roll Hall of Fame stands on the shores of this lake

Trivia about lake erie

  • After Perry met the enemy in the September 1813 battle of this great lake, they were ours
  • Ohio's North Bass, Middle Bass & South Bass Islands lie in this most southern Great Lake
  • The shallowest of the Great Lakes, it was the site of a U.S. naval victory in 1813
  • Alphabetically, it's the first of the five Great Lakes
  • Cleveland, Ohio
  • The 880-ton Hulett ore unloaders were built for ports like Cleveland & Ashtabula along this lake
  • Point Pelee, the southernmost point in Canada, is a peninsula in Ontario that juts into this Great Lake
  • The Detroit, Huron & Sandusky Rivers are among those that flow into this great lake
  • Canada's southernmost point is Middle Island in this Great Lake
  • At 21 George had a mission in what was then the Far West, in Pennsylvania, near this Great Lake
  • Some of America's finest glacial carvings can be found in Ohio's Kelley's Island State Park in this Great Lake
  • An over 300-foot Doric column on this Great Lake is both a peace memorial & a Perry's victory memorial
  • In 1985 tornadoes centered on this Great Lake struck Ontario, Ohio, New York & Pennsylvania
  • Middle Island, Canada's southernmost point, is found in this eastern Great Lake
  • The first major flight over water was by Glenn Curtiss, who flew over this lake from Cleveland to Sandusky in 1910
  • (Kelly of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) Of the five Great Lakes, Superior is the farthest north; this one is the farthest south
  • It's the fourth-largest of the Great Lakes & the one reaching farthest south