Lake Five archive · No. 15
Five questions about Lake Erie and Cleveland’s waterfront. Tap an answer; the explanation and source open underneath.
Answer: Cleveland's incorporation as a city
It celebrated 100 years since Cleveland was incorporated, and was meant to lift the city out of the Depression.
Source: Encyclopedia of Cleveland History: Great Lakes Exposition
Answer: September 10, 1813
At dawn on September 10, 1813, a U.S. Navy lookout spotted six British vessels near Put-in-Bay.
Source: National Park Service: Perry's Victory and International Peace Memorial, History
Answer: About 7 million
About 7 million people visited its 135 lakefront acres in 1936 and 1937.
Source: Encyclopedia of Cleveland History: Great Lakes Exposition
Answer: Quagga mussel
Quagga mussels, like zebra mussels, gobies and grass carp, arrived from elsewhere. The other three are native.
Source: Wikipedia: Lake Erie
Answer: "... ours."
Perry wrote to General Harrison: "We have met the enemy and they are ours: Two Ships, two Brigs one Schooner & one Sloop."
Source: National Park Service: Perry's Victory and International Peace Memorial (Founders and Frontiersmen)
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