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1200-1600
Native Americans carved human and animal
figures on a large rock. The site in Erie County is now known as Inscription Rock.
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1786
Congress set aside this portion of the Connecticut
Western Reserve for citizens from Connecticut whose
homes the British burned during the American Revolution.
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1805
First pioneer settlers arrived, settling along
the lake in what would become Erie County.
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1839
The three mile long Milan Canal completed.
Milan became a major port on Lake Erie with twenty schooners
a day leaving bearing farm products. The railroad and a disastrous
flood ended the city's port days in 1868.
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1847
Inventor Thomas A. Edison born in Milan, Erie
County.
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1861-1865
Johnson's Island in Sandusky Bay
was the site of a prisoner of war camp for Confederate soldiers
during the Civil War.
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