The Erie Land Light, also known as the Old Presque Isle Light, is a lighthouse on the shore of Lake Erie in Erie, Pennsylvania. It is one of the three...
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Pennsylvania. It is one of three lighthouses in Erie, along with the Erie Land Light and the North Pier Light. The lighthouse is situated on the northern...
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Erie (/ˈɪəri/; EER-ee) 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...
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The Erie Canal is a historic canal in upstate New York that runs east–west between the Hudson River and Lake Erie. Completed in 1825, the canal was the...
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Lake Erie (/ˈɪəri/ EER-ee; French: Lac Érié) is the fourth-largest lake by surface area of the five Great Lakes in North America and the eleventh-largest...
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Homeland Security, and Erie native Tom Ridge. In 1924, Roger Griswold purchased 22.12 acres (9.0 ha) of land 6 miles (10 km) west of Erie at the intersection...
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Park is a park along the shoreline of Lake Erie just east of Presque Isle peninsula. The Erie Land Light, Lake Front Drive Park, and McCarty Playground...
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Township and the village of Crystal Beach with Fort Erie. Crystal Beach Park occupied waterfront land at Crystal Beach, Ontario, from 1888 until the park's...
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Millcreek Township is a township in Erie County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 54,070 at the 2020 census, making it the 14th-largest...
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occupied the lands now known as Erie. For a history of the Native Americans who occupied this land before Europeans, see Erie Indians. The French built Fort...
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Turtle Island is a 1.5-acre (0.61 ha) island in the western portion of Lake Erie in the United States. The island is divided between the U.S. states of Michigan...
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There are several lighthouses in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. "Historic Light Station Information and Photography: Pennsylvania". United States Coast...
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The Battle of Lake Erie, also known as the Battle of Put-in-Bay, was fought on 10 September 1813, on Lake Erie off the shore of Ohio during the War of...
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Erie Township is a civil township of Monroe County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 4,299 at the 2020 census. Sharing a southern border...
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Presque Isle State Park (redirect from Pennsylvania State Park at Erie)
arching, sandy peninsula jutting into Lake Erie, 4 miles (6 km) west of the city of Erie, in Millcreek Township, Erie County, Pennsylvania, in the United States...
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Northern Branch (redirect from Erie Railroad Northern Branch)
Jersey to connect the New York and Erie Railroad's Piermont Branch terminus in Piermont, New York, directly to Erie's primary terminal in Jersey City, initially...
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The Wabash and Erie Canal was a shipping canal that linked the Great Lakes to the Ohio River via an artificial waterway. The canal provided traders with...
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State cessions (redirect from Western land claims)
American sovereignty over the land between the Appalachians and the Mississippi; the jobs of determining how that land should be governed, and how the...
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began in 1859 by a subsidiary of the Erie Railroad. while the area was still called the English Neighborhood. The Erie Railroad Ridgefield Freight Station...
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Station Square (redirect from Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad Complex)
the buildings and land formerly occupied by the historic Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad Complex, including the Pittsburgh & Lake Erie Railroad Station...
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Tonawanda, New York (redirect from Tonawanda (city), Erie County, New York)
Erie County, New York, United States. The population was 15,129 at the 2020 census. It is at the northern edge of Erie County, south across the Erie Canal...
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merging. › The Erie County Fair is a fair held in Hamburg in Erie County, New York, every August. Based on 2018 attendance statistics, The Erie County Fair...
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On August 27, 1967, eighteen skydivers mistakenly parachuted into Lake Erie, four or five nautical miles (7.5–9.3 km) from Huron, Ohio, United States,...
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James L. Kraft (category People from Fort Erie, Ontario)
at 3347 Bowen Road in Fort Erie. Known as the Kraft House, it was built on land farmed by Francis Kraft, who sold the land to Kraft's father, George Krafft...
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Buffalo is the county seat of Erie County, and the second most populous city in the U.S. state of New York, after New York City. Originating around 1789...
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Huron, Ohio (category Cities in Erie County, Ohio)
Huron is a city in Erie County, Ohio, United States, located at the mouth of the Huron River on Lake Erie. The population was 6,922 at the 2020 census...
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over during winter. Once frozen, lake-effect snow over land to the east and south of Lake Erie is temporarily alleviated. This does not end the possibility...
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The siege of Fort Erie, also known as the Battle of Erie, from 4 August to 21 September 1814, was one of the last engagements of the War of 1812, between...
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The Hudson–Bergen Light Rail (HBLR) is a light rail system in Hudson County, New Jersey, United States. Owned by New Jersey Transit (NJT) and operated...
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built in 1885. It sits in Lake Erie, south of the mouth of the Detroit River, 1.75 nautical miles (3.24 km; 2.01 mi) from land and about 20 nautical miles...
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