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RE: (erielack) Erie Street/Avenue/Road/Plaza

Not to split hairs, but Lake Erie does not border Indiana. The only one of 
the Great Lakes that does so, is Lake Michigan.



Michael Dye ELHS #1516


>From: "Chris Thurner" <CThurner_@_adelphia.net>
Note that the lake extends from
>Buffalo, NY, and borders the states of NY, PA, OH and IN.
>
>Case in point, would you believe that Erie, PA (on the shores of that
>particular lake) and not on, or even reasonably near, the Erie RR, would be
>named after it.  I'm quite confident that it was settled and named that
>before 1850.

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