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Erie, [a] officially the City of Erie, is a city on the south shore of Lake Erie and the county seat of Erie County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is the fifth-most populous city in Pennsylvania and the most populous in Northwestern Pennsylvania with a population of 94,831 at the 2020 census .
Erie County World War II Memorial, State Street and Glenwood Parkway, Erie: Roadside Military, Military Post-Civil War Col. Strong Vincent: May 1, 1994: Northeast corner of High Street and 1st Street, Waterford: Roadside Civil War, Military Colt's Station
A memorial to Anthony Wayne, American Revolutionary War hero, consisting of a pair of cannon facing opposite directions mounted on a stone, was erected by the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) in 1902. A base without a statue is etched with the words: Presented to the City of Erie by Geo. D. Selden on 30 May 1893.
Situated adjacent to the University of Pittsburgh campus and its Cathedral of Learning, the building is set back from Fifth Avenue. It features expansive, well-kept lawns with large cannons and other war implements. The side streets flanking the building are Bigelow Boulevard and University Place, with O'Hara Street directly behind the memorial.
The Erie War was a 19th-century conflict between American financiers for control of the Erie Railway Company, which owned and operated the Erie Railroad. [1] Built with public funds raised by taxation and on land donated by public officials and private developers, by the middle of the 1850s the railroad was mismanaged and heavily in debt. [2]
The Erie Triangle is a roughly 300-square-mile (780-square-kilometre) tract of land that was the subject of several competing colonial-era claims. It was eventually acquired by the U.S. federal government and sold to Pennsylvania so that the state would have access to a freshwater port on Lake Erie .
"The Frontier Forts of Western Pennsylvania," Albert, George Dallas, C. M. Busch, state printer, Harrisburg, PA, 1896. Tracing of plan of Erie, on pg. 536b, shows the "old French fort" between Front Street and Second Street, on the northeast side of Parade Street. Google Earth indicates this position is 42.137085 -80.079374; France portal
Miles Nason, another Erie Prohibitionist, headed the Dry Block in the Pennsylvania State Senate. [8] But Erie was primarily a "wet" city. Being a border town, Erie was an important transportation hub in the rum-running of illicit liquor across the lake from Canada during Prohibition in the United States. John G. Carney, in his "Highlights of ...