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Lake Erie State Park is a 355-acre (1.44 km 2) state park [2] located in the Town of Portland in Chautauqua County, New York, United States, northeast of the village of Brocton. Its major attraction is its Lake Erie beach, in addition to its campsites and other recreational facilities.
Boeckling made plans to build a massive hotel on the resort's beach. Keeping with Boeckling's vision of Cedar Point as the "Queen of American Watering Places", he set out to build the resort's grandest hotel. The Hotel Breakers opened on June 12, 1905, featuring 600 rooms, most with a view of Lake Erie. Each room included running water and one ...
Maumee Bay State Park is a 1,336-acre (541 ha) public recreation area located on the shores of Lake Erie, five miles east of Toledo, in Jerusalem Township, Lucas County, Ohio, United States. Major features of the state park include a lodge and conference center, cottages, camping facilities, golf course, nature center, and two-mile-long ...
East Harbor State Park is a public recreation area located eight miles (13 km) northwest of Sandusky, Ohio on the shores of Lake Erie. The state park includes beach, campground, marina, and wetland wildlife preserve areas. The park offers swimming, boating and fishing, ten miles (16 km) of multi-use trails, picnicking, hunting, and disc golf. [2]
Catawba Island State Park is a ten-acre (4.0 ha) public recreation area located on Lake Erie, six miles northeast of Port Clinton, Ohio. Boating, fishing and picnicking are the major activities of the park. The state park, along with the other units in Ohio's Lake Erie state parks group, was established in the early 1950s. [2]
Erie Mining Company 4211 preserved at the Lake Superior Railroad Museum in 2014. The Cliffs Erie Railroad (reporting mark LTVX) was a railroad that operated from Hoyt Lakes to Taconite Harbor, Minnesota. The railroad opened in 1956 by Erie Mining Company to transport taconite from Hoyt Lakes to Taconite Harbor. In 1989, LTV Steel purchased Erie ...
"15 Skydivers Feared Dead after Landing in Lake Erie". The Hanford Sentinel. Hanford, Calif. United Press International. August 28, 1967a. p. 2 – via Newspapers.com. "2 Dead, 14 Missing As 18 Sky Divers Fall Into Lake Erie: Wind Blows Sky Divers Off Course". The New York Times. Associated Press. August 28, 1967a. pp. 1, 42.
Lake Erie has a lake retention time of 2.6 years, [24] the shortest of all the Great Lakes. [25] The lake's surface area is 9,910 square miles (25,667 km 2). [7] [26] Lake Erie's water level fluctuates with the seasons as in the other Great Lakes. Generally, the lowest levels are in January and February and the highest in June or July, although ...