Serene one moment and destructive the next, Lake Erie\'s moods mirror its tumultuous role in history.
Author Jennifer Boresz Engelking reveals entertaining, heartbreaking, and nostalgic stories of the Lost sites, businesses and industries of Lake Erie..
And rum runners turned the Lake into a watery highway for illegal booze during Prohibition.
The Erie is one of thousands of ships that lie in a solemn graveyard below the surface.
Canal Street, at the Buffalo Wharf, was once called the Wickedest Street in America.
Daring postal workers dangerously crossed the ice-covered surface on hybrid boats and by foot.
As the site of Cleveland\'s Great Lakes Exposition, the Lake offered visitors a respite from the Great Depression, and Hotel Victory, once considered the world\'s largest summer resort, drew thousands to Put-In-Bay.
Serene one moment and destructive the next, Lake Erie\'s moods mirror its tumultuous role in history