The Great Lakes
Columbus River.
The proximity to Great Lakes ports, railroads and rivers, a location halfway between NY & Chicago made Cleveland desirable.
The Great Lakes: Lake Superior, Lake Michigan, Lake Huron, Lake Erie, and Lake Ontario.
Great Lakes
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The halfway point between those two places is North Little Rock, AR. There are a few lakes within an hour of there and some of them have beaches.
The Great Lakes are a collection of five freshwater lakes, The Great Salt Lake is one saltwater lake. The Great Lakes are much larger than the Great Salt Lake. (The Great Lakes cover 80,545 square miles, the Great Salt Lake covers between 1,000 and 3,000 square miles, depending on the rainfall.)
Great Lakes
The Great Lakes lie between the United States of America and Canada.
North America. On the border between the United States and Canada.
The Rush- Bagot Treaty was an agreement between the United States and Great Britain to disarm the Great Lakes. This was a positive step for peace between the two nations.