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Ohio played a key role in the War of 1812, as it was on the front line in the Western theater and the scene of several notable battles both on land and in Lake Erie. On September 10, 1813, the Battle of Lake Erie, one of the major battles, took place in Lake Erie near Put-in-Bay, Ohio. The American victory in the battle led to the U.S. gaining ...
The Erie people were Indigenous people historically living on the south shore of Lake Erie. An Iroquoian group, they lived in what is now western New York, northwestern Pennsylvania, and northern Ohio before 1658. [ 2] Their nation was almost exterminated in the mid- 17th century by five years of prolonged warfare with the powerful neighboring ...
Lake Erie (42.2° N, 81.2W) has a mean elevation of 571 feet (174 m) [ 8] above sea level. It has a surface area of 9,990 square miles (25,874 km 2) [ 7] with a length of 241 statute miles (388 km; 209 nmi) [ 7] and breadth of 57 statute miles (92 km; 50 nmi) [ 7] at its widest points. It is the shallowest of the Great Lakes with an average ...
The Miami and Erie Canal was a 274-mile (441 km) canal that ran from Cincinnati to Toledo, Ohio, creating a water route between the Ohio River and Lake Erie. [1] Construction on the canal began in 1825 and was completed in 1845 at a cost to the state government of $8 million ($262 million in 2023). At its peak, it included 19 aqueducts, three ...
Lake Erie Islands. The Lake Erie Islands are a chain of archipelagic islands in Lake Erie. They include Kelleys Island, Erie Island, [ 1] Pelee Island, the Bass Islands, and several others. The majority of these islands are under the sovereignty of the State of Ohio in the United States. Pelee Island is the only major inhabited island within ...
The Ohio and Erie Canal was a canal constructed during the 1820s and early 1830s in Ohio. It connected Akron with the Cuyahoga River near its outlet on Lake Erie in Cleveland, and a few years later, with the Ohio River near Portsmouth. It also had connections to other canal systems in Pennsylvania . The canal carried freight traffic from 1827 ...
Decoupage or découpage ( / ˌdeɪkuːˈpɑːʒ /; [ 1] French: [dekupaʒ]) is the art of decorating an object by gluing colored paper cutouts onto it in combination with special paint effects, gold leaf, and other decorative elements. Commonly, an object like a small box or an item of furniture is covered by cutouts from magazines or from ...
Area. • Total. 3 ha (7 acres) Mouse Island is a seven acre [1] private island located in Lake Erie off the northern tip of Catawba Point in Ottawa County, Ohio, United States, near the city of Sandusky ( 41°35′28″N 82°49′59″W ). It was formerly named "Ship Island", as denoted on early-19th-Century maps [2] (and in some late-18th ...