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 is the largest lake that is entirely within one country. The Great Lakes began to form at the end of the last glacial period around 14,000 years ago, as retreating ice sheets exposed the basins they had carved into the land which then filled with meltwater. The lakes have been a major source for transportation, migration, trade, and fishing, serving as a habitat to a large number of aquatic species in a region with much biodiversity. The surrounding region is called the Great Lakes region, which includes the Great Lakes Megalopolis. Though the five lakes lie in separate basins, they