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
Marine Museum of the Great Lakes history of the Calvin and Son shipyard which once employed 700 workers on Garden Island. The museum has photographed historic shipwrecks at risk of being hidden by encrustations of zebra mussels which infested the Great Lakes in the 1990s. Archaeological exhibits commemorating the War of 1812 on the Great Lakes were added for that war's bicentennial. Publications of the museum include "FreshWater", a journal of Great Lakes marine history, a "Jib Gems" museum newsletter and several books on local marine history. Extensive archives and collections are maintained with the assistance of Queen's University, documenting 19th and 20th century Canadian Great