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  2. SS Valley Camp - Wikipedia

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    As a museum ship, Valley Camp is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Visitors are able to explore the ship as well as view exhibits in the cargo hold, which houses hundreds of artifacts, paintings, shipwreck items, models, two lifeboats from the wreck of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald, and exhibits of objects related to maritime history.

  3. List of Great Lakes museum and historic ships - Wikipedia

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    Valley Camp was a typical oreboat, who served the National Steel Corporation, Republic Steel Corporation and Wilson Transit Co. during her 1917–1966 working life. In 1968, she became a museum ship on the waterfront of Sault Ste. Marie, downstream of the Soo Locks.

  4. National Register of Historic Places listings in Chippewa ...

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    The SS Valley Camp is a freighter boat that was launched in Lorain, Ohio, in 1917. The Valley Camp stretches 550 feet (170 m) overall with a 525-foot (160 m) keel. It served on the Great Lakes for almost 50 years, and in 1968 was turned into a museum ship. 25

  5. Great Lakes history up close: Inside the Museum Ship Valley Camp

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    The Museum Ship Valley Camp is over 100 years old, and has a long history both as a shipping freighter and as a museum in the city. Great Lakes history up close: Inside the Museum Ship Valley Camp ...

  6. American Ship Building Company - Wikipedia

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    SS Valley Camp, originally built in 1917 as Louis W. Hill in Lorain; USS Sable (IX-81), originally built in 1924 as the Greater Buffalo in Lorain; SS Robert Hobson, launched in 1927 in Lorain, later Outarde, broken up at Port Colborne 1985; USS Annapolis (PF-15), launched in 1943 in Lorain

  7. List of museum ships in North America - Wikipedia

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    SS Valley Camp [120] 1917. United States Bulk freighter: Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan Wilhelm Baum: 1923. United States ... Museum of Missouri River History, Nebraska

  8. Whitefish Point Light - Wikipedia

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    The area is infamously known as the "Graveyard of the Great Lakes" due to the high number of shipwrecks in the area, most famously the SS Edmund Fitzgerald. [ 13 ] The lighthouse is part of the Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum complex, which contains numerous relics from shipwrecks of the Whitefish Point Underwater Preserve , including the bell of ...

  9. Sault Ste. Marie Historic Commercial District - Wikipedia

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    Sault Ste. Marie was first settled by European immigrants in 1668. It was controlled by Britain or France until after the War of 1812, when the border between Canada and the United States was fixed at the St. Marys River.