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Nancy Island Historic Site

Schooner Town was located at the mouth of the Nottawasaga River, a vital transportation link between the Upper Great Lakes and Lake Ontario. It was named in honor of the British schooner Confiance, and it became a major naval operations base for the British on Lake Huron during the War of 1812. A commemorative plaque can be found on River Road West.

The Nancy, a fur-trading boat used by the British Navy during the War of 1812, was attacked here by U.S. forces in 1814. While the crew escaped and later captured two of the three schooners that had attacked them, the Nancy herself was lost. The hull of the sunken vessel’s hull is on public display on Nancy Island at Wasaga Beach which offers a museum, theater, and lighthouse as well. The visitor center is on Mosley Street.

http://www.wasagabeachpark.com/index.php?action=display&cat=36

http://www.ontarioplaques.com/Plaques_STU/Plaque_Simcoe08.html

Oliver Hazard Perry Statue 

Historian Henry Adams wrote, "The victory on Lake Erie was won by the courage and obstinacy of a single man." These words are inscribed on a statue in Huntington Memorial Park. The man Adams described was Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry, who in 1813 took command of a fleet that did not yet exist. Perry, and the shipwrights and laborers he recruited, built it from scratch. Once the fleet was afloat, Perry led it to victory in the pivotal Battle of Lake Erie. The park and statue are located near Browns Stadium, at West 3^rd Street and Lakeside Avenue East. Exit Route 2 eastbound at Lakeside Avenue.

http://www.clevelandareahistory.com/2010/04/fort-huntington.html

Perry’s Victory and International Peace Memorial

Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry’s American fleet that won the decisive Battle of Lake Erie in 1813 set sail from Put-in-Bay on South Bass Island, now a popular resort. Perry’s Victory and International Peace Memorial, a stone column rising more than 350 feet above Lake Erie commemorates that momentous event. It also honors all who fought in the War of 1812. The memorial is maintained by the National Park Service. The island is accessible by private boat, as well as ferries and planes from Port Clinton and Sandusky. Taxi and bus services are available on South Bass Island.

http://www.nps.gov/pevi/index.htm

Pigeon Roost State Historic Site

On September 3, 1812, a Native American war party attacked a group of settlers at Pigeon Roost in what is now southern Indiana. Twenty-four were killed, including fifteen children. An obelisk was built in 1904 to mark the village’s original site, which is located about five miles south of Scottsburg. Follow US-31 to the turnoff onto a one-lane road leading to the memorial.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigeon_Roost_State_Historic_Site

http://www.in.gov/history/markers/12.htm

Presque Isle Naval Base

Few sites were suitable for construction of the sorely needed Great Lakes fleet, and Presque Isle was chosen, even though it had a sandbar that would keep many larger vessels out of its harbor. The base no longer exists, but Presque Isle State Park commemorates Commodore Perry’s accomplishments here. He and his men completed a substantial fleet must faster than either American leaders or the British had expected, and then used it to win the decisive Battle of Lake Erie. Take PA-832 to Presque Isle and the columnar monument dedicated to Perry. The monument is located on a spit of land east of Thomson Road.

http://www.dcnr.state.pa.us/stateparks/parks/presqueisle.aspx

http://www.presqueisle.org/history.php

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