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PS Keystone State, the Glossary

PS Keystone State (also spelled Key Stone State) was a wooden-hulled American paddle steamer in service between 1849 and 1861.^[1]

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Alpena County George N. Fletcher Public Library

The Alpena County George N. Fletcher Public Library is a public library in Alpena, Michigan, United States.

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American Civil War

The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States between the Union ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), which was formed in 1861 by states that had seceded from the Union.

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Amherstburg

Amherstburg is a town near the mouth of the Detroit River in Essex County, Ontario, Canada.

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Ancestry.com

Ancestry.com LLC is an American genealogy company based in Lehi, Utah.

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Boatnerd

The boatnerd corporation, a registered not for profit corporation, circulates information about vessels that ply the North American Great Lakes.

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Boiler explosion

A boiler explosion is a catastrophic failure of a boiler.

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Buffalo, New York

Buffalo is a city in the U.S. state of New York and the county seat of Erie County.

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Canton, Michigan

Canton Township (commonly known simply as Canton) is a charter township in Wayne County in the U.S. state of Michigan.

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Chicago

Chicago is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois and in the Midwestern United States.

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Collingwood, Ontario

Collingwood is a town in Simcoe County, Ontario, Canada.

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Detroit

Detroit is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Michigan.

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Detroit Free Press

The Detroit Free Press is the largest daily newspaper in Detroit, Michigan, US.

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Detroit River

The Detroit River is an international river in North America.

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Dressed weight

Dressed weight (also known as dead weight or carcass weight) refers to the weight of an animal after being partially butchered, removing all the internal organs and often the head as well as inedible (or less desirable) portions of the tail and legs.

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Dunkirk, New York

Dunkirk is a city in Chautauqua County, New York, United States.

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Erie, Pennsylvania

Erie is a city on the south shore of Lake Erie and the county seat of Erie County, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Firebox (steam engine)

In a steam engine, the firebox is the area where the fuel is burned, producing heat to boil the water in the boiler.

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Flue

A flue is a duct, pipe, or opening in a chimney for conveying exhaust gases from a fireplace, furnace, water heater, boiler, or generator to the outdoors.

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Gross tonnage

Gross tonnage (GT, G.T. or gt) is a nonlinear measure of a ship's overall internal volume.

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Harrisville, Michigan

Harrisville is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan and the county seat of Alcona County.

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Hogging and sagging

In solid mechanics, structural engineering, and shipbuilding, hogging and sagging describe the shape that a beam or similar long object will deform into when loading is applied.

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Joinery

Joinery is a part of woodworking that involves joining pieces of wood, engineered lumber, or synthetic substitutes (such as laminate), to produce more complex items.

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Kingston, Ontario

Kingston is a city in Ontario, Canada, on the northeastern end of Lake Ontario.

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Lake Huron

Lake Huron is one of the five Great Lakes of North America.

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Lake Michigan

Lake Michigan is one of the five Great Lakes of North America.

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Lexington, Michigan

Lexington is a village in Sanilac County in the U.S. state of Michigan.

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Midwestern United States

The Midwestern United States, also referred to as the Midwest or the American Midwest, is one of four census regions of the United States Census Bureau.

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Milwaukee

Milwaukee is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Wisconsin and the seat of Milwaukee County.

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MLive Media Group, originally known as Booth Newspapers, or Booth Michigan, is a media group that produces newspapers in the state of Michigan.

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New York City

New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Paddle steamer

A paddle steamer is a steamship or steamboat powered by a steam engine that drives paddle wheels to propel the craft through the water.

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Paddle wheel

A paddle wheel is a form of waterwheel or impeller in which a number of paddles are set around the periphery of the wheel.

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Palace steamer

Palace steamers were luxurious steamships that carried passengers and cargo around the North American Great Lakes from 1844 through 1857.

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Panic of 1857

The Panic of 1857 was a financial crisis in the United States caused by the declining international economy and over-expansion of the domestic economy.

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Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania, officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania Dutch), is a state spanning the Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern, Appalachian, and Great Lakes regions of the United States.

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Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission

The Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission (PHMC) is the governmental agency of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, responsible for the collection, conservation, and interpretation of Pennsylvania's heritage.

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Point Pelee National Park

Point Pelee National Park (Parc national de la Pointe-Pelée) is a national park in Essex County in southwestern Ontario, Canada where it extends into Lake Erie.

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Pointe Aux Barques Township, Michigan

Pointe Aux Barques Township is a civil township of Huron County in the U.S. state of Michigan.

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Port Austin, Michigan

Port Austin is a village in Huron County in the U.S. state of Michigan.

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Presque Isle State Park

Presque Isle State Park is a Pennsylvania State Park on an arching, sandy peninsula jutting into Lake Erie, west of the city of Erie, in Millcreek Township, Erie County, Pennsylvania, in the United States.

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PS Lady Elgin

The PS Lady Elgin was a wooden-hulled sidewheel steamship that sank in Lake Michigan off the fledgling town of Port Clinton, Illinois, whose geography is now divided between Highland Park and Highwood, Illinois, after she was rammed in a gale by the schooner Augusta in the early hours of September 8, 1860. PS Keystone State and PS Lady Elgin are Great Lakes ships and paddle steamers of the United States.

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Put-in-Bay, Ohio

Put-in-Bay is a resort village located on South Bass Island in Put-in-Bay Township, Ottawa County, Ohio, United States, west of Cleveland and east of Toledo.

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Queen of the Lakes

Queen of the Lakes is the unofficial but widely recognized title given to the longest vessel active on the Great Lakes of the United States and Canada.

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Rocky River, Ohio

Rocky River is a city in western Cuyahoga County, Ohio, United States.

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Sandusky, Ohio

Sandusky is a city in and the county seat of Erie County, Ohio, United States. Situated on the southern shore of Lake Erie, Sandusky is located roughly midway between Toledo (west) and Cleveland (east). According to 2020 census, the city had a population of 25,095, and the Sandusky metropolitan area had 115,986 residents.

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Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan

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Schooner

A schooner is a type of sailing vessel defined by its rig: fore-and-aft rigged on all of two or more masts and, in the case of a two-masted schooner, the foremast generally being shorter than the mainmast.

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Ship registration

Ship registration is the process by which a ship is documented and given the nationality of the country to which the ship has been documented.

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Ship-owner

A shipowner, ship owner or ship-owner is the owner of a ship.

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Side-scan sonar

Side-scan sonar (also sometimes called side scan sonar, sidescan sonar, side imaging sonar, side-imaging sonar and bottom classification sonar) is a category of sonar system that is used to efficiently create an image of large areas of the sea floor.

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Steamship

A steamship, often referred to as a steamer, is a type of steam-powered vessel, typically ocean-faring and seaworthy, that is propelled by one or more steam engines that typically move (turn) propellers or paddlewheels.

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Stroke (engine)

In the context of an internal combustion engine, the term stroke has the following related meanings.

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The Blade (Toledo, Ohio)

The Blade, also known as the Toledo Blade, is a newspaper in Toledo, Ohio, published daily online and printed Thursday and Sunday by Block Communications.

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The Kingston Whig-Standard

The Kingston Whig-Standard is a newspaper in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The Oakland Press

The Oakland Press is a daily newspaper published in Oakland County, Michigan with headquarters in Troy.

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United Press International

United Press International (UPI) is an American international news agency whose newswires, photo, news film, and audio services provided news material to thousands of newspapers, magazines, radio and television stations for most of the 20th century until its eventual decline beginning in the early 1980s.

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United States

The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.

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University of Michigan

The University of Michigan (U-M, UMich, or simply Michigan) is a public research university in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

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White Rock, Michigan

White Rock is an unincorporated community in Huron County in the U.S. state of Michigan.

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Wisconsin Historical Society

The Wisconsin Historical Society (officially the State Historical Society of Wisconsin) is simultaneously a state agency and a private membership organization whose purpose is to maintain, promote and spread knowledge relating to the history of North America, with an emphasis on the state of Wisconsin and the trans-Allegheny West.

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