ON LAKE MICHIGAN near Poverty Island, Mich. -- Divers began opening an underwater pit Saturday at a remote site in northern Lake Michigan that they say could be the resting place of the Griffin, a ...

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Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Jim Bruseth discusses, La Belle, one of four ships used by Robert de La Salle when he explored the Gulf of Mexico in the 1680s. ** This clip is part ...

On April 9, 1682, French explorer Robert La Salle reached the Mississippi River. In 1833 the first tax-supported public library was founded in Peterborough, N. H. In 1865 Confederate Gen. Robert E.

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. — A debris field at the bottom of Lake Michigan may be the remains of the long-lost Griffin, a vessel commanded by the 17th-century French explorer known as La Salle, according to ...

Translation of: Cavelier de La Salle, ou, L'homme qui offrit l'Amérique à Louis XIV. Seventeenth-century North America was a dangerous, untamed land, a vast wilderness where settlers, fur traders, and ...

Lansing — Historical mysteries may take decades, even centuries, to solve – if ever. In the Great Lakes region, there may be no older and more intriguing historical mystery than the 1679 disappearance ...

FAIRPORT, Michigan (WITI) – After searching for about four decades, an exploration group says it has found Lake Michigan’s oldest known shipwreck. French explorer Robert La Salle’s Le Griffon and its ...