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Split Rock Lighthouse will host its annual event on Nov. 10, a half-century after the big freighter sank in a violent storm.

A 150-mile route along Lake Superior in northern Minnesota is among the most scenic drives in the Great Lakes region, ...

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The Cleveland Harbor West Pierhead Lighthouse has been sold at auction, and the new owners are two Clevelanders who intend to preserve the historic part of Cleveland’s skyline. The lighthouse fetched ...

Fifty years ago on Nov. 10, 1975, the 729-foot lake freighter SS Edmund Fitzgerald sank during a severe gale in Lake Superior. All 29 crewmembers were lost. It was the largest ship ever to sink in the ...

A historic lighthouse on Lake Erie that sold at auction will be preserved. That's the promise made by the local magnates in Ohio who bought it. The Cleveland Harbor West Pierhead Lighthouse has been ...