The wooden freighter Aurora, foreground, was built in Cleveland, Ohio in 1887. After she burned on Lake Erie in December 1898, her engines and boilers were salvaged and remade into a barge which was in use until at least 1927. The David Dow, background, was built in Toledo, Ohio in 1881. She was one of the largest sailing ships built on the Great Lakes. She was lost in Lake Michigan, near the south shore town of Whiting, Indiana on Thanksgiving 1889.