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Find Your Route: Schooner LaSalle
Activity Instructions
Select a pen color below, then use your cursor to draw the route you would take between ports to load and unload your cargo. Use the information provided to help guide you while you draw. Make sure that your route is the fastest and most direct way to travel between ports on the water. If your route takes you out of one lake and into another, be careful when drawing the line to stay in the water and don't run aground. When you are ready to check your route, click the "Check My Route" button to see how you did. If you would like to start over, click the "Start Over" button.
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The year is 1874.
- You start in Chicago, Illinois, loading wheat.
- Then, you sail to Kingston, Ontario, Canada and unload the grain.
- Next, you sail light to Cleveland, Ohio and load a cargo of salt.
- Last, you sail to Milwaukee, Wisconsin and unload the salt.
Map courtesy of the Wisconsin Historical Society.
Shipwreck image courtesy of the Wisconsin Historical Society.