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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM19Z4_helen-steiner-rice_Lorain-OH.html
Helen Steiner Rice was born on May 19, 1900, in Lorain, the daughter of Anna and John Steiner. Demonstrating an early propensity for writing, Helen planned for college, but her father's death during the 1918 Spanish Influenza epidemic kept her wor…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM19Z3_the-lorain-tornado-1924_Lorain-OH.html
Just after 5:00 P.M on June 28, 1924, a tornado swept off Lake Erie directly into downtown Lorain. Within five minutes, seventy-eight people lost their lives. Fifteen died in the old State Theatre that stood upon this site, as an audience of two h…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM19Z2_the-california-emigrant-trail-interpretive-center_Lorain-NV.html
You are at the entrance to The National California Emigrant Trail Interpretive Center. The purpose of the center is to gather and display historical knowledge about the emigrants who made the trek to California in the 1840s, 1850s, and 1860s. Inte…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM19Z1_the-humboldt-river-highway_Lorain-NV.html
The California Emigrant Trail extended approximately 2,000 miles from the Missouri River to California. Today you are standing on a segment of the trail that followed the Humboldt River for about 280 miles across northern Nevada. It was the only w…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM19Z0_about-your-journey_Lorain-NV.html
Whichever direction your travels take you, you're going to have a similar experience to what the California-bound emigrants had. You're going to see the same country, except for the towns and the ranch meadows. The big difference, though, is that …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM19YZ_the-end-of-the-hastings-cutoff_Lorain-NV.html
Across the valley you can see the canyon of the South Fork River, a major tributary to the Humboldt River. This portal is also the western end of the infamous Hastings Cutoff, which rejoined the main California Trail not far from the California Tr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM19YY_marking-time_Lorain-NV.html
California Trail ruts and swales wind across Northern Nevada some touched only by the forces of nature since they were made by emigrant wagon trains on their way west in the mid 1800s.
Many of these irreplaceable historic trail segments lie on …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM19YX_shipbuilding_Lorain-OH.html
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Lorain's shipbuilding industry began when Augustus Jones and William Murdock began constructing wooden sailing vessels on the west side near the mouth of the Black River. The sloop General Huntington was the first boat launched from Lo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM36A_trading-post_Lorain-OH.html
In 1807 a Trading Post with the Indians was established near this site by Nathan Pery, Jr. that resulted in the settlement of Lorain which in pioneer days was known as the Mouth of the Black River.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM369_founding-of-lorain-ohio_Lorain-OH.html
At the mouth of the Black River in April, 1787, Moravian missionary David Zeisberger attempted a settlement of Indians but was ordered further west by unfriendly Delaware Indians. On July 16, 1834, a plat of this site was filed by Conrad Reid, Dan…