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Vermilion museum spotlights Great Lakes shipping relics
Wakefield Museum of the Great Lakes Historical Society in Vermilion displays artifacts from the inland seas including a Niagara ship rib recovered after 140 years, a 1818 bill of lading, a brass signal gun, gyroscope compass, lantern from Paris 1895, and a log book from the brig Columbia. Clarence S. Metcalf, founder and curator, leads the exhibit and dreams a Vermilion room and an Inter-Lakes Yachting Association space while lamenting the lack of ship portraits from Vermilion's early fleet.
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Great Lakes
Vermilion
Wakefield Museum of the Great
Clarence S. Metcalf
Cleveland Public Library
Metcalf
N. Christie and Co
Isaac Teachnor Pheatt
Toledo
M. A. Hanna Co
Chicago
Paris
Lake Erie
Justus O. Wells
Columbia
Soo Locks
Inter-Lakes
Clarence Metcalf
Wakefield Museum of the Great Lakes Historical Society
Perry