Grand Lake St. Marys was hand-dug in the 1800s by Irish and German immigrants to feed the Miami & Erie Canal in the 1800s. The lake became a recreational area after the canal system became ...

I suspect half the volume of Grand Lake St. Marys is sweat − left over from 1,700 Irish and German immigrants who chopped down trees and dug the 17,000-acre reservoir by hand. If you were lucky ...