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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDVJ_african-american-sailors-in-the-battle-of-lake-erie_Erie-PA.html
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.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDVI_flagship-niagara_Erie-PA.html
Restored flagship of Capt. Oliver Hazard Perry in the Battle of Lake Erie, Sept. 10, 1813.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMDVB_captain-daniel-dobbins_Erie-PA.html
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 retur…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM7T1_lafayette-visit_Erie-PA.html
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 Juda…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5OD_alexis-de-tocqueville_Erie-PA.html
The 25 year-old French aristocrat and author of Democracy in Americavisited this area during his 1831-1832 tour of America
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Placed by C-SPAN and the Cable Television Industrywhile retracing the tour in 1997-1998