HistoERIE

The ongoing story of Erie, PA’s illustrious past

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Erie’s Portal to the Past

Beyond its edge lies a magnificent maze filled with avenues and alleyways, bridges and boulevards, trestles and trains, that all lead to the same place ~ Pennsylvania’s Port City of Erie, PA.

Erie’s history is fascinating.

Its earliest settlers were an inspired group of individuals whose challenges included untold hardships.

* Imagine for a moment that it’s 1805 in the middle of winter, and an early settler’s hearth fire goes out. To re-light this life-sustaining flame, it was necessary to trudge a mile or so to the nearest neighbor’s cabin to ask them for a lit ember. The trick was to then keep that ember burning as it was carried back to the settler’s roughly-hewn log residence. In the snow. And it’s five degrees.

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Erie’s Portal to the Past