Formed March 12, 1800 from Allegheny County. Named for Lake Erie, which took its own name from the Erie Indians. Erie, the county seat, was laid out 1795; made a city in 1851. Ships of Perry's fleet which won the 1813 Battle of Lake Erie were built here.

Marker is on West 6th Street (Pennsylvania Route 5) 0.1 miles east of Sassafras Street, on the right when traveling west.

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