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Recent Event Highlights: A small tornado touches down and causes damages to the park, wrecking power lines, trees, and an observation platform , The Tom Ridge Environmental Center is built at the entrance to the park , The Presque Isle Light, the second lighthouse is constructed , Presque Isle is named a National Natural Landmark by the National Park Service , The Peninsula is expanded to accommodate new roads and additional parking , The Park is renamed to Presque Isle State Park , and 19 more...

Created by Akochirka on Apr 20, 2011

Last updated: 04/25/11 at 01:45 PM

• A small tornado touches down and causes damages to the park, wrecking power lines, trees, and an ...
  2010

• The Tom Ridge Environmental Center is built at the entrance to the park
  2006

• The Presque Isle Light, the second lighthouse is constructed
  1972

• Presque Isle is named a National Natural Landmark by the National Park Service
  1967

• The Peninsula is expanded to accommodate new roads and additional parking
  1950

• The Park is renamed to Presque Isle State Park
  1937

• The Perry Monument is constructed
  1926

• The first paved road in the park is built
  1924

• The State Legislator authorizes the creation of the “Pennsylvania State Park”
  1921

• In an effort to provide freshwater to the city of Erie, a waterworks is constructed
  1908

• The third and final lighthouse is constructed by Erie Waterworks
  1906

• The predecessor to the United States Coast Guard, known as the United States Life Saving Service ...
  1876

• The Erie Harbor North Pier light, Lake Erie’s first lighthouse is constructed
  1830

• The Brig Niagra, suffering from damages, is intentionally sunk in Misery Bay
  Sep 10, 1813

• An outbreak of smallpox leads to infected bodies being dumped in what is now known as “Misery Bay...
  1813 to 1814

• War of 1812 breaks out
  Jun 8, 1812 to Feb 8, 1815

  Presque Isle played a decisive role in the Battle of Lake Erie, as Oliver Hazard Perry, commander of American forces prevented British control of the Lake

• Erie County is formed from Allegheny County
  Mar 2, 1800

• General Anthony Wayne builds a new “American” Fort Presque Isle
  1795

• The town of “Presqu’ Ille” is renamed to Erie and laid out nearby
  Apr 18, 1795

• Pennsylvania acquires undisputed title of the land from the US government
  1792

• Treaty of Fort Stanwix: Iroquois sell their rights to the land containing the peninsula to the US...
  1784

• American Revolutionary War
  Apr 19, 1775 to Sep 3, 1783

  Americans take Fort Presque Isle

• Pontiac’s War ends with signed treaty
  Jul 5, 1766

• Fort Presque Isle falls to Indian forces
  Jun 9, 1763

• Dissatisfied with British control of the region, Pontiac’s War begins, uniting various Native Ame...
  May 1763

• The Treaty of Paris is signed, ending the French and Indian War
  Feb 10, 1763

• The French abandon their outposts and burn their fort
  1759

  The British reconstruct Fort Presque Isle

• The French and Indian War begins
  1754 to 1763

• Fort Presque Isle is built; two additional outposts, one at the mouth of the peninsula and one at...
  1753

• The French name the land now known as Presque Isle meaning “almost an island/peninsula”
  1720 to 1729

• The Erielhonan are annihilated and absorbed into the Iroquois and Seneca
  1656

  Fort Presque Isle is built; two additional outposts, one at the mouth of the peninsula and one at the eastern point are constructed

• The Erielhonan’s largest village, Risque is destroyed by 1,800 Iroquois warriors
  1654

• The Erielhonan are victorious in the first of many Indian wars over the Seneca tribe
  1653

• Erielhonan, original Indian tribe settles in the Erie area
  Jul 1, 1400