Great Lakes Lore Maritime Museum Great Lakes Lore Maritime Museum The Great Lakes Lore Maritime Museum is a museum located in Rogers City in the U.S. state of Michigan. The museum is located in a noted Lake Huron port city, and the museum specializes in the maritime history of the Great Lakes with an emphasis on the lives of marine personnel. The Great Lakes Lore Maritime Museum remembers many of the seafarers and seamen of the Great Lakes. Rogers City is a noted producer of aggregate. A thick stratum of limestone is quarried nearby and shipped all over the U.S. Midwest for construction purposes and
Great Lakes for Lakes Ontario and Erie were created, along with what would become the Saint Lawrence River. The Great Lakes are estimated to have been formed at the end of the last glacial period (the Wisconsin glaciation ended 10,000 to 12,000 years ago), when the Laurentide Ice Sheet receded. The retreat of the ice sheet left behind a large amount of meltwater (see Lake Algonquin, Lake Chicago, Glacial Lake Iroquois, and Champlain Sea) that filled up the basins that the glaciers had carved, thus creating the Great Lakes as we know them today. Because of the uneven nature of glacier erosion,