Cleveland sits next to Lake Erie, one of North America's Great Lakes.

VOA: special.2010.03.21

The worst fire disaster happened on Lake Erie in eighteen fifty.

VOA: special.2009.11.11

The Great Lakes are Michigan, Erie, Huron, Superior and Ontario.

VOA: special.2009.01.05

One of them - the Erie Canal - opened the West to commerce by connecting New York's Hudson River with the Great Lakes in the heartland.

VOA: standard.2010.04.29