Welcome
to the GLCC History section. Here you’ll find many fascinating
stories about the people and places of the Great Lakes.
Be sure to visit here often for new articles and images. Great Lakes Cruising in the Wake of Charles Dickens & Mark Twain
It is April 24 1842 and Charles Dickens on his grand tour of “North America” cruises across
Lake Erie en route to Buffalo. Dickens records in his diary... Pride of the Inland Seas:
An Illustrated History of the Port of Duluth–Superior
Authors Bill Beck and C. Patrick Labadie bring lifetimes of Great Lakes experience
to the labor of love that is Pride of the Inland Seas.