Links about history of the Great Lakes region

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Did you find any links to sites that have information on human history of the Great Lakes regions,including pre- and post-European settlement? If so, please scroll down and click on "Contribute an answer". Please follow the guidelines given in Assignment 2 when reporting on your link.

-- Sharon Gabel (gabel@oswego.edu), February 08, 2000

Answers

Name:Oswego History. URL: http://www.oswegony.org/History/History2.htm. By Unknown. Rating: ***

Review: I thought this site was good brief summary of the history of Oswego and it should be checked out for a quick overview.

-- Jessica Cowles (jcowles@oswego.edu), February 11, 2000.

Title: Great Lakes Historical Society URL: http://inlandseas.org/ glhsl@inlandseas.org. Rating **

Review: This site did not really have information about the Great Lakes, it was about a museum.

-- Emily Hine (hine@oswego.edu), February 13, 2000.

Title: Dave Swayze's Great Lakes Ship and History Page ULR: http://homepages.go.com/~dswayze1/index.html Author: Dave Swayze Rating:***

This site did not have a lot of information but it did have tons of links to sites from history to general info on the Great Lakes.

-- Mandi Walseman (mwalsema@oswego.edu), February 14, 2000.

Name: LUHNA CHAPTER 6: Historical Landcover changes in the Great Lakes Region URL: http://biology.usgs.gov/luhna/chap6.html By: Kenneth Cole, Forest Stearns, Karen Walker, Margaret B. Davis This site is very resorceful because it offers colorful graphs and diagrams. There is also many links for further information. Rating-***

-- Lauren M. Saur (saur@oswego.edu), February 15, 2000.

Great Lakes: Examining Future Challenges and Oppurtunities http://www.cciw.ca/glimr/intro-e.html Environment Canada Webmaster/Canadian Government This site was interesting. It looked at the future of the Great Lakes region and gave you an opportunity to voice your opinion, although overall not very useful at this point. *

-- Rebecca L. Walzer (walzer@oswego.edu), February 15, 2000.


The Great Lakes Historical Society - Inland seas Maritime Musuem www.inlandseas-org/ This site has the rich history of the great lakes with various pictures of musuems that are entirely devoted to the great lakes.

-- Carrie Engels (cengels@oswego.edu), February 16, 2000.

Web site: Great Lakes Lights URL: http://greatlakeslights.virtualave.net/ Author: Site owned by Brian Polley Group: Lighthouse Ring (doesn't say whst kind of group this is) Summary: Photos of lighthouses in the Great Lakes. Some are vry old and historic, unfortunately there are many pics but no info about the pics. Rating: **

-- Melissa Armstrong (marmstro@oswego.edu), February 16, 2000.

Great Lakes Diving at http://www.iwaynet.net/~uwconnection/travel/greatlakes/glakes.htm ** This site talks about shipwrecks in the Great Lakes, interesting.

-- Melissa Grow (mgrow@oswego.edu), February 16, 2000.

The Great Lakes Industrial History Center at the Cleveland State University Library. http://web.ulib.csuohio.edu/SpecColl/glihc/ Cleveland State University ***

This site holds a very nice overview of the history of the Great Lakes. It also contains a library of photographs from many years ago. Most of the information is relevant to Ohio but is still interesting. There is also many links on it that also pertain to what we are learning. I would recommend this site to be put somewhere in the notes.

-- Melissa Grow (mgrow@oswego.edu), February 16, 2000.


Great Lakes Brewing Co. URL: http://www.greatlakesbrewing.com/index2.asp.

I originally looked up Great Lakes History, and I found this site! I am sure this isn't what you were referring to for history, but I decided to take a look at the site anyways and see what I come up with. This site is cool, but I can't give it a 4 star rating because it didn't mention anything about the great lakes like I was hoping it would. It mentions things like the history of the brewery, and a tour of the place, but thats about it. So I give this site *, because its no help to our class, but if your ever in Cleveland check it out!!

-- Amy Bunn (blueyedBunny@hotmail.com), February 16, 2000.


The Great Lakes Historical Society Inland Seas Maritime Museum http://www.inlandseas.org/ glhs1@inlandseas.org private discusses the history of the great lakes including: fisherey and surrounding the lakes events **

-- Christine Short (short@oswego.edu), February 17, 2000.

The site I found is called the "Association for Great Lakes Maritime History." The URL is http://little.nhlink.net/wgm/glmh/glmh.html. The author is William G. Mather. All this site tells us is what this association is all about, what they are, what they do and what they plan to do.

-- Leeanne Root (lroot@oswego.edu), February 17, 2000.

The site I found is called the "Association for Great Lakes Maritime History." The URL is http://little.nhlink.net/wgm/glmh/glmh.html. The author is William G. Mather. All this site tells us is what this association is all about, what they are, what they do and what they plan to do. The site isn't very good, I give it a rating of *

-- Leeanne Root (lroot@oswego.edu), February 17, 2000.

ST.CLAIR FLATS HISTORICAL ENCAMPMENT http://customers.i-is.com/st.clairflats/ Rating:** Review: Althought there are some great pictures on this site, it is mostly about ENCAMPMENT in which people can go and see and take part of what great lakes life was like and Re-enactor Information.

redshirt@i-is.net

-- Kristin Kohl (kohl@oswego.edu), February 17, 2000.


Great Lakes Science Center-USGS. URL-http://www.glsc.usgs.gov/ By-Department of the Interior U.S. Geoplogical Survey

Review-This site is very informative about the history of the Great Lakes. There are many other links to use for further information reguarding the history, research, and montitoring of the Great Lakes Region. Rating-***

-- Jill Forster (forster@oswego.edu), February 17, 2000.



The site I found was "Great Lakes Lights." The URL is http://www.greatlakelights.virtualave.net There are seperate pages for eachlake and beautiful pictures. By Unknown. Rating*(useless for this course)

-- Edna White (ewhite1@oswego.edu), February 17, 2000.

The site I found is The Great Lakes Historical Society. The URL is http://www.inlandseas.org/ The main goal of this site is dedicated to preserving history. I dont feel that it had that much information. Although, the information that it did provide was quite useful. I give it a rating of *

-- Karissa Sharlow (Questalita@hotmail.com), February 17, 2000.

Name:Wreck Diving in the Great Lakes Region.URL:http://www.geocities.com/Pipeline/Dropzone/6731/WreckDive.h tm. LuisFrancisco. jpetz@shrike.depaul.edu.Rating**

Review:There's an abundance of sunken ships in the great lakes and this site describes the locations were they are. It describes the diving areas most unique to witness the sunken ships. One of the paticular diving areas (in the lakes)to explore is called the "Wings of the Wind," and is most difficult. You may add diving locations onto this site. Interesting links as well.

-- Elizabeth Beauregard (beaurega@oswego.edu), February 17, 2000.


Title: Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum URL: http://www.shipwreckmuseum.com/ Author: Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society Location: com (private company) Rating: **1/2

I didn't see a large assortment of the shipwreck history of the Great Lakes. The site was mainly about the museum and its surroundings, but there was a very interesting article about the Edmond Fitzgerald, a ship that went down in 1975 on Lake Michigan, if anyone is interested in it.

-- Erika Knight (eknight@oswego.edu), February 17, 2000.


Great Lakes Historical Society http://inlandseas.org/ glhsl@inlandseas.org. I didn't really enjoy this site too much, although, I found it difficult to get information about the history of the Great Lakes from anywhere else. This site provided very little information about the Great Lakes's history. Rating*

-- Anne Murphy (amurphy@oswego.edu), February 17, 2000.

http://history1700s.about.com/education/history1700s/library/mresource /metexts/cooper/blpath2.htm?rnk=r10&terms=great+lakes. The Pathfinder by J.F. Cooper--The 18th Century. Author:James Fenimore Cooper. I don't know what type of agency this is. This is a whole book about the history of the great lakes region. Not useful unless you want to read the whole book.**

-- Nicole Kemnitz (kemnitz@oswego.edu), February 17, 2000.

http://encarta.msn.com/find/Concise.asp?ti=05E29000

This site is called MSN Encarta-Great Lakes. It contains information on the problems and history of the Great Lakes as well as shipping and economic activities. It also has links to other Great Lakes websites on it.***

-- Renee Parmiter (parmiter@oswego.edu), February 17, 2000.


Name: The Great Lakes Information Network URL: http://www.great-lakes.net/ by Christine Manninen, manninen@glc.org

I thought that this was a very good site, it gave a lot of information and other links to find infromation on the Great lakes...It also offerd help to answer questions and an e-mail address to the author, i found this to be very helpful...***

-- Elizabeth Bauer (bauer@oswego.edu), February 17, 2000.


This is the site for the Marine historical society of Detroit-www.oakland.edu/~ncschul/mhsd. It had good info on lakes Superior and Michigan, but little else-***.

-- Jeff Barg (barg@Oswego.edu), February 17, 2000.

History of the Great Lakes-

http://web.ulib.csuohio.edu/SpecColl/glihc/collect.html

-part of a digital library on the Great lakes, history and people, links to other sites, informative reading with a past!

http://web.ulib.csuohio.edu/SpecColl/glihc/nj/ this a one of the links provided, great pictures to look at, from the 1900s

Rating:****

-- alyssa connelly (connelly@oswego.edu), February 17, 2000.


HISTORY- The Iron Ore trade along Great Lakes, mentions other types of trade that went along during the late 1800s and early 1900s and how it effected the ecomomy.

http://web.ulib.csuohio.edu/SpecColl/glihc/articles/carrhist.html Rating:***

-- alyssa connelly (connelly@oswego.edu), February 17, 2000.


History- http://gbms01.uwgb.edu/~dutchs/202ovhds/glacial.htm mostly man, and the differet time periods that also talked about evolution of the lakes, european contact, mound builders, copper cultures,boreal archaic, paleo indians, clovis,links to other interesting sites from this page, very informative! Rating:****

-- alyssa connelly (connelly@oswego.edu), February 18, 2000.

Great Lakes www.biology.usgs.gov/s%2Bt/swt/noframe/gl127.htm Author: Thomas A. Edsal Agency: gov This page had a very comprehensive history of the great lakes. Covered topics such as land formation to cultural history of the lakes ****

-- Touraj Rajabipour (rajabipo@oswego.edu), September 22, 2000.

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