| Pennsylvania (Erie County), Erie — African American Sailors in the Battle of Lake Erie |
| | These skilled seamen were among those who enabled Oliver Hazard Perry to defeat & capture a British Squadron, Sept. 10, 1813. Their participation - critical to victory - secured a place for African Americans in the region's history. — Map (db m21048) |
| Pennsylvania (Erie County), Erie — Alexis de Tocqueville |
| | The 25 year-old French aristocrat and author of Democracy in America visited this area during his 1831-1832 tour of America Tocqueville C-SPAN Placed by C-SPAN and the Cable Television Industry while retracing the tour in 1997-1998 — Map (db m8951) |
| Pennsylvania (Erie County), Erie — American Fort — (Wayne Blockhouse) |
| | The American Fort was built a few blocks east of the French and British forts on a bluff behind the current Soldiers and Sailors Home. It was erected in July 1795 by a detail of General Anthony Wayne's soldiers commanded by Captain Bissel. The fort was a large stockade with at least three blockhouses. Although never attacked the Fort was crucial to the safety of the first Erie settlers. It was the final resting place of General Wayne who died and was buried there in 1796. A replica of the . . . — Map (db m23881) |
| Pennsylvania (Erie County), Erie — Anthony Wayne |
| | On the Soldiers and Sailors Home grounds near the foot of this street is a restored blockhouse on the site of American Fort Presque Isle. It is the original burial place of General Wayne, who died there on December 15, 1796. — Map (db m21417) |
| Pennsylvania (Erie County), Erie — Captain C. V. Gridley |
| | Grave of Captain Gridley, commander of Dewey's flagship Olympia in the Battle of Manila Bay, 1898, is located in this cemetery. Dewey's order, "You may fire when you are ready, Gridley," opened the battle. — Map (db m21049) |
| Pennsylvania (Erie County), Erie — Captain Daniel Dobbins — (1776 - 1856) |
| | Erie merchant mariner, naval officer, born in Mifflin County. Captured by the British during the War of 1812, Dobbins escaped, went to Washington to report the fall of Forts Mackinac and Detroit. Appointed a sailing master in the US Navy, he returned to Erie to supervise the construction of a squadron of warships later commanded by O.H. Perry in the Battle of Lake Erie. Dobbins served in the US Navy and Revenue Cutter Service for thirty years. — Map (db m21040) |
| Pennsylvania (Erie County), Erie — Cascade Creek |
| | Cascade Creek is the last of Erie's three original creeks. Its western location saved it from being completely compromised by urbanization. Cascade Creek flows along the bayfront parkway and into a delta behind the western dock. In 1813, Daniel Dobbins established a shipyard at the mouth of the creek where the flagships Lawrence and Niagara were built. The military shipyard later became a commercial boat building center. The western dock, where U.S. Navy "Yard Ferry Class" ships were built . . . — Map (db m21425) |
| Pennsylvania (Erie County), Erie — Erie Area Native Americans |
| | Native American influence on this area of northwestern Pennsylvania pre-date the 1492 encounter by at least 13,500 years.
Erie County is named after its first known inhabitants, the Erie Nation.
The Erie Nation, also known as the Cat Nation, bordered other aboriginal territory in New York and Ohio. Most notable were the Seneca Nation, "Keepers of the Western Door" of the Five Nation Iroquois Confederacy, based in New York.
Disputes between the Iroquois and Erie resulted in . . . — Map (db m25977) |
| Pennsylvania (Erie County), Erie — Erie Heritage — Parade Street Memorial |
| | Erie Heritage
Parade Street Memorial
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This site created
To honor
Erie’s birthplace
By the
Greater Erie
Bicentennial Commission — Map (db m23932) |
| Pennsylvania (Erie County), Erie — Flagship Niagara |
| | Restored flagship of Capt. Oliver Hazard Perry in the Battle of Lake Erie, Sept. 10, 1813. — Map (db m21047) |
| Pennsylvania (Erie County), Erie — General Anthony Wayne Blockhouse |
| | In Memory of
General Anthony Wayne
Who Died Here Dec. 15th, 1796 — Map (db m21420) |
| Pennsylvania (Erie County), Erie — Lafayette Visit |
| | On this site June 3, 1825, the great French & American patriot, Marquis de La Fayette (1757-1834), a Major General and aide to General George Washington during the American Revolution, was entertained in the French Street home of Erie Pioneer Judah Colt, land agent for Pennsylvania Population Co., during Lafayette’s triumphal return visit to U.S. — Map (db m12093) |
| Pennsylvania (Erie County), Erie — Presque Isle Forts |
| | Site of
French Fort de la Presqu'Isle - 1753
British Fort Presque Isle - 1760 — Map (db m21423) |
| Pennsylvania (Erie County), Erie — The Ariel, Porcupine, Scorpion and Tigress — Gunboats of Commodore Perry |
| | The Ariel, Porcupine,
Scorpion and Tigress,
gunboats of
Commodore Perry,
in the Battle of Lake Erie, Sep. 10, 1813,
were built on the bay front, 100 yards north
of this spot, early in the same year. — Map (db m21426) |
| Pennsylvania (Erie County), Erie — The Lawrence and Niagara — Flagships of Commodore Perry |
| | The Lawrence and Niagara, Flagships of
Commodore Perry,
in the Battle of Lake Erie, Sep. 10, 1813, were built on the bay front, 100 yards north of this spot, early in the same year. — Map (db m21424) |
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