Sources
Where every answer comes from
Each question links its source under the answer. These are all of them, by deck. Links open the publisher’s own page.
Lake by the numbers
The Cleveland shore
- Encyclopedia of Cleveland History: Cuyahoga River
- Encyclopedia of Cleveland History: Burke Lakefront Airport
- Encyclopedia of Cleveland History: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum
- Encyclopedia of Cleveland History: Edgewater Park
- Encyclopedia of Cleveland History: Euclid Beach Park
- Ideastream: State hands lakefront parks over to Metroparks (2013)
Ships, lights and water
- Cleveland Water: History of the Baldwin Water Treatment Plant
- Wikipedia: USS Cod
- Encyclopedia of Cleveland History: Steamship William G. Mather Museum
- Wikipedia: Marblehead Light (Ohio)
- The Clio: Cleveland Harbor West Pierhead Lighthouse
- Wikipedia: SS G. P. Griffith
- Encyclopedia of Cleveland History: Cuyahoga River
Lake life
- USGS: Distribution and dispersal of the zebra mussel in the Great Lakes region
- USGS: What are zebra mussels and why should we care about them?
- U.S. Department of the Interior: Recovery of the Lake Erie Watersnake (2011)
- NPR: Toledo keeps water ban (August 4, 2014)
- New York Sea Grant: Lake Erie fact sheet
- Wikipedia: Lake Erie
- Port of Cleveland: Cleveland Lakefront Nature Preserve
Then and now
- Encyclopedia of Cleveland History: Moses Cleaveland
- National Park Service: Perry's Victory and International Peace Memorial, History
- National Park Service: Perry's Victory and International Peace Memorial (Founders and Frontiersmen)
- American Battlefield Trust: Standing Tall on Lake Erie
- Encyclopedia of Cleveland History: Cuyahoga River Fire
- Encyclopedia of Cleveland History: Great Lakes Exposition
- Encyclopedia of Cleveland History: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum
Islands, coast and weather
- Wikipedia: Lake Erie
- Wikipedia: Pelee Island
- Cleveland 19: Kelleys Island glacial grooves (2018)
- Wikipedia: Point Pelee National Park
- Ohio EMA: State hazard mitigation plan, coastal erosion (2019)
- NOAA: What is a seiche?
- National Park Service: Perry's Victory and International Peace Memorial
- Wikipedia: Cedar Point
- Wikipedia: Presque Isle State Park
Tiebreakers
- National Park Service: Perry's Victory and International Peace Memorial, History
- Encyclopedia of Cleveland History: Moses Cleaveland
- EPA: Physical Features of the Great Lakes
- Encyclopedia of Cleveland History: Burke Lakefront Airport
- Port of Cleveland: Cleveland Lakefront Nature Preserve
- Cleveland Water: History of the Baldwin Water Treatment Plant
- Encyclopedia of Cleveland History: Great Lakes Exposition