Erie city i Erie county i Pennsylvania i USA

Arkiv: Erie County, Pennsylvania Genealogy
Länk: Erie, Pennsylvania
Alias: Erie ❓

Erie grundades 1795, men redan 1753 låg här ett franskt fort, Fort Presque Isle. Staden fick stor betydelse sedan Beaver and Erie Canal mellan Erie och Pittsburgh färdigställdes 1844 och de första järnvägarna byggdes under 1850-talet. Den är nu Pennsylvanias enda hamn vid Saint Lawrenceleden.

Europeans first arrived as settlers in the region when the French constructed Fort Presque Isle near present-day Erie in 1753, as part of their effort to defend New France against the encroaching British colonists. The name of the fort refers to the peninsula that juts into Lake Erie, now protected as Presque Isle State Park. The French term presque-isle means peninsula (from the Latin paene and insula, both literally, ”almost an island”). When the French abandoned the fort in 1760 during the French and Indian War (Seven Years' War), it was the last post they held west of Niagara. The British established a garrison at the fort at Presque Isle that same year, three years before the end of the French and Indian War.[10]

Erie is in what was the disputed Erie Triangle, a tract of land comprising 202,187 acres in the northwest corner of Pennsylvania fronting Lake Erie that was claimed after the American Revolutionary War by the states of New York, Pennsylvania, Connecticut (as part of its Western Reserve), and Massachusetts. The Iroquois claimed ownership first, so a conference was arranged for on January 9, 1789, wherein representatives from the Iroquois signed a deed relinquishing their ownership of the land.[11] The price for it was $2,000 from Pennsylvania and $1,200 from the federal government. The Seneca Nation separately settled land claims against Pennsylvania in February 1791 for the sum of $800. It became a part of Pennsylvania on March 3, 1792, after Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New York relinquished their rights to the land and sold the land to Pennsylvania for 75 cents per acre or a total of $151,640.25 in continental certificates.

Staden och countyt är döpt efter Lake Erie.

Erie har en god hamn och är därför en betydande hamnstad, med skeppning av bland annat kol, olja, timmer och spannmål. I staden finns elektroteknisk industri, stål-, bil- och petroleumindustri. Staden har fyra college och ett campus för Pennsylvania State University.