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Erie County’s Mound Builders: Myth and Fact

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History and Memorabilia Erie Pennsylvania. The History of the City and County of Erie, Pennsylvania. Erie County’s Mound Builders: Myth and Fact. According to local supposition: antedating Erie County’s native Indians, the Eries. By several hundred years, was another race. Of men that inhabited the county, of whom no history is extant. This race, for want of a better name, is known as the Mound Builders. The goal of the mound explorations was to settle the question of who were the Mound Builders. Wer...

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Prohibition: Erie’s Rebellion

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History and Memorabilia Erie Pennsylvania. The History of the City and County of Erie, Pennsylvania. Prohibition: Erie’s Rebellion. Erie was primarily a wet. And demanded Erie's numerous vices. On West Sixth Street, and the owners of the 100 or so speakeasies that operated clandestinely throughout the Erie region. Their business became so very profitable that the Magaddino crime family, out of Buffalo, New York, started to take notice. In July of 1931, Eddie The Kid. Jimmy Salamone, an Erie-area gangster...

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US Brig Niagara

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History and Memorabilia Erie Pennsylvania. The History of the City and County of Erie, Pennsylvania. The US Brig Niagara. 8212; the Navy's first iron-hulled warship. Returning to Erie on September 21, and cribbed up just out of the water, ownership of the Niagara was transferred to the City of Erie in 1917, where it remained docked, deteriorating. The City of Erie transferred ownership of the Niagara to the newly formed USS Niagara Foundation. According to Chapelle, very little of the original Niagara re...

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USS Michigan - USS Wolverine

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History and Memorabilia Erie Pennsylvania. The History of the City and County of Erie, Pennsylvania. USS Michigan - USS Wolverine. The ship was retrieved and final construction began on the steamer. The USS Michigan. Was commissioned on 29 September 1844 and was almost 164 feet long, 27 feet wide, and had a crew of 88 officers and men. In 1853 the USS Michigan. And The Chicago Democratic Press. Openly advocated armed resistance against the agents. One article in the Chicago Tribune. And at the time she w...

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The Charles M. Reed House

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History and Memorabilia Erie Pennsylvania. The History of the City and County of Erie, Pennsylvania. The Charles M. Reed House. The Charles M. Reed House was located on the north side of West 6th Street, between Walnut and Chestnut streets. The house was demolished in 1970 to build what was then the Erie County Motor Club. Some of the original interior paneling and molding were incorporated into the dining and bar area of the ski lodge at Peek 'n Peak, Chautauqua County, New York.

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History and Memorabilia Erie Pennsylvania. The History of the City and County of Erie, Pennsylvania. Electricity Triumphs Over Steam. A Short History of Erie's Economic Decline. Rails Removed Causes Accident. The Train Wreck of October 1920. Clark's College: Erie Business Center. Erie’s Mafia Myth. African Americans in the Battle of Lake. Erie's Rush to Oil. Prohibition: Erie’s Rebellion. The Lost Graveyards of Erie. Erie County’s Civil War History. Erie County’s Mound Builders: Myth and Fact.

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The Lost Graveyards of Erie

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History and Memorabilia Erie Pennsylvania. The History of the City and County of Erie, Pennsylvania. The Lost Graveyards of Erie. Many of Erie’s residential and commercial buildings have been built on old abandoned graveyards. Some forgotten, others purposely desecrated. The land that composes the City of Erie has been a human habitat for thousands of years. The mound builders,. The remains from this massive burial were irreverently thrown into a ravine further down the road. Another similar sight on...

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Erie's Rush to Oil

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History and Memorabilia Erie Pennsylvania. The History of the City and County of Erie, Pennsylvania. Erie's Rush to Oil. The Pennsylvania oil rush was a boom in petroleum production, which occurred in northwestern Pennsylvania from 1859 to the early 1870s. It was the first oil boom in the United States. The discovery soon fueled refineries that were producing a new and highly coveted consumer product: kerosene. By the mid-1870s, the oil industry was well established, and the rush. Erie City Iron Works, w...

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Civil Unrest Destroys Rag Processing Plant

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History and Memorabilia Erie Pennsylvania. The History of the City and County of Erie, Pennsylvania. Civil Unrest Destroys Rag Processing Plant. Erie's Rag Processing Plant, M.P. Radov Corporation, located at 1925 Holland Street, was gutted by arson on July 18, 1967. Six African-American men were arrested on suspicion of arson and inciting a riot. A Warren County, Pennsylvania Newspaper the Warren Times Mirror and Observer. Reported the unrest in their newspaper on July 20, 1967, which read:.