CSPAN3 Col. James M. Schoonmaker July 13, 2024
We like to think of it as two football fields of education and entertainment. It is a great hook for us to get people appreciating and understanding more of the great lakes. We are on the pilot house deck. This is the National Museum of the great lakes. Largest artifact the. The schoonmaker was a commercial freighter from when it was built in 1911 to the 1980s. It became a museum when the city of toledo purchased it in 1987. Her main purpose was to deliver iron ore from Lake Superior down to lake erie to places like ohio where it was unloaded and put in Railroad Cars and taken to pittsburgh fo...