Lake Erie Frozen For First Time In 14 Years: 3 Rescued From Lake

Lake Erie is frozen over for the first time in 14 years. The lake's frozen surface is several inches thick off the southern shore, but only paper thin in other places. Lake Erie's frozen conditions have already lead...

Rescue under way for scores stuck on ice floe

This is developing.I will update."The ice floe, 8 miles long, was created when a large piece of ice broke off from land near Locust Point, Ohio, east of Toledo, said U.S. Coast Guard spokesman Robert Lanier. At...

White Hurricane of 1913 was Worst Great Lakes Disaster

The story of the worst storm in Great Lakes history and two ore boats that battled it:"31 cargo ships and barges stranded, twelve ships sunk with crew, 253 sailors drowned—that was the the toll of the most...

The Great Black Swamp

The Great Black Swamp in Ohio was as large as the Everglades, but covered with broad leaf trees:"“Water! Water! Water!” wrote an early surveyor of northwestern Ohio, “tall timber! deep water! Not a blade of...