11-10-1975

318willrun said

When we went out on Lake Superior, they said there were over 6000 known ship wrecks in the Great Lakes. Lake Superior has almost half of them.

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One, the Island Queen, was sunk in Lake Erie in 1864 by my cousin, a Confederate Naval Officer. They were on a mission to liberate a prisoner of war camp on Johnson's Island. He was captured, tried, and executed few months later.