Historic Sites in Great Lakes Region 4
Battlefields, historic houses, forts, mining towns, railroad landmarks and lighthouses.
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Drake Well Museum and Park
The spot where Edwin Drake struck oil in 1859 and launched the modern petroleum industry, with a replica engine house and derrick, an oil-history museum and trails along Oil Creek.
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Presque Isle Light
A square brick tower of 1873 rising from its keeper's house beside a Lake Erie beach, on the open-lake side of the Presque Isle peninsula.
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Pithole City
Mown paths on a quiet hillside trace the streets of an 1865 oil boomtown that swelled to thousands of people and emptied within a few years.
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Erie Land Lighthouse
Standing on a bluff above the lake, a sandstone tower of 1867 marks the site of one of the first lighthouses on the Great Lakes, with a small park around it.
