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Corey Adkins, historical society communications director, said the Curtis discovery was previously communicated within membership circles but the wreck wasn’t examined with remote underwater cameras until 2022.

It was during that trip that wreck searchers came across a sonar blip that turned out to be the Marvin, he said.

Finding the Peterson will be “the last piece of the puzzle.”

The Curtis and Marvin are not where local lore and some historical accounts indicated they should be. Some believed the vessels sank in shallower water or came ashore.

“As we nd these wrecks, a lot of them aren’t where the historical records think they were,” Adkins said.

The wrecks are the latest discoveries made in 2021 and 2022 to be announced by the society, which conducts regular grid searches along Lake Superior’s “Shipwreck coast,” a treacherous

OTHER RECENT

LAKE SUPERIOR DISCOVERIES

• The schooner barge Atlanta, a 172foot schooner barge that sank o Deer Park in 1891

• The Dot, a steamship that sank in 1883

• The Frank W. Wheeler, a schooner barge that sank in 1885

• The Michigan, a steamer that sank in 1901.