The Great Storm of 1913

The Great Storm of 1913 is a Michigan historical marker in Port Sanilac, Sanilac County, dedicated 1957.

M-25 Horatio S. Earle Roadside Park, Port Sanilac

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Sudden tragedy struck the Great Lakes on November 9, 1913, when a storm, whose equal veteran sailors could not recall, left in its wake death and destruction. The grim toll was 235 seamen drowned, ten ships sunk, and more than twenty others driven ashore. Here on Lake Huron all 178 crewmen on the eight ships claimed by its waters were lost. For sixteen terrible hours gales of cyclonic fury made man and his machines helpless.

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Historical maps covering this location

1853 · Map of the surveyed part of Michigan (Digital Commonwealth, Boston Public Library)
1874 · Colton's Michigan (1874) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1889 · Ontario No. 1. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1897 · Southern Michigan. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1914 · [Maps to accompany the report of the Public Roads and Highways Commission Province of… (Historical map archives, georeferenced via Allmaps)

Ontario No. 1, 1889, covering the location of The Great Storm of 1913, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — Ontario No. 1, 1889, covering this location. David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.

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The Great Storm of 1913

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