The president of the Buffalo and Erie County Military and Naval Park said red tape is to blame for keeping two historic Naval ...

The Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission violated federal maritime code, which says 75% of a Coast Guard ship's crew ...

A dozen or more times, I’ve driven by and ignored the entrance to the Tom Ridge Environmental Center on the threshold of Presque Isle in Erie. I recently visited Erie for the annual conference of the ...

He noted there are more than 2,000 historical shipwrecks on Lake Erie alone. "We could look every year for 100 years and not find all of the shipwrecks on the Great Lakes," he said. Kowalczk ...

The WHEELING & LAKE ERIE RAILROAD, planned to run from the Ohio River through the coal fields of southeastern Ohio to ports on Lake Erie, was founded in 1871. By 1877 only 13.5 mi. of track had been ...

Erie Civil Defense officials planned the nation's first mass evacuation drill in 1954. It was the Cold War, and the idea was, if the Soviets launched a nuclear attack, Erie residents would calmly ...

A fisherman discovered the abandoned J.C. Ames tugboat, which submerged in Lake Michigan in 1923. Wisconsin Shipwrecks courtesy of the C. Patrick Labadie Collection Within the fog, a fisherman ...

whose step-grandmother earned distinction by once finding three shipwrecks in as many days. The Wisconsin Historical Society said in a May 16 news release that Thuss was recently fishing on Lake ...