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 ...

GRDA (Grand River Dam Authority) continues to manage elevated water levels at Grand Lake and Lake Hudson with significant ...

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 ...