George Hulett didn’t especially seem like the kind of person who could change the course of American history. The native of Conneaut, Ohio—a Lake Erie town that’s as far northeast as you can get and ...

Most of the 77 Huletts that once dotted the industrial Great Lakes had vanished by the early 1990s, rendered obsolete by self-unloading freighters. In addition to Cleveland, other Lake Erie ports once ...

Historic preservation advocates have long fought to see at least one of the huge cranes reassembled but were never able to raise the money to pay for such a project, once estimated to cost $10 million ...