The Inland Seas Museum is moving to Toledo. Earlier plans were to build a new museum in Lorain, Ohio, next to a resort and casino that were being developed, but the casino plans fell through and thus, so did the feasibility of creating the maritime museum at that location. Instead, the Great Lakes Historical Society (GLHS) has negotiated a move to the Toledo Maritime Center along the Maumee River, a 15,600 square-foot facil ity that was completed in 2007, whi ch is owned and operated by the Toledo-Lucas Coun ty Port Authority (TLCPA) . Located in downtown Toledo, the Maritime Center provides passenger ferry and cruise ship service to US and Canadian ports across the Great Lakes. The GLHS hopes to create a national museum of Great Lakes maritime history and that the busy location in a passenger ship faci lity, also home to a marina for seasonal and transient boaters, will attract tens of thousands of visitors each year. They hope to have the museum up and runni ng by May 20 12. As part of the agreement, the GLHS will lease rhe space for $1 per year for 25 years and be able to extend the lease at that time for another 25. The memorandum signed by the GLHS and the TLCPA calls for the GLHS to marker the maritime center to operators offerry services, for which the Port Authority obtained more than $2 million in federal grant money to assist with building costs of the facili ty. Another term of the agreement requi res that the GLHS reimburse the Port Authority for half the salary of the TLCPA Manager of Mari time Affairs, Paul LaMarre II, who received the Association for Great Lakes Maritime History 2009 Award for Historic Preservation in September in recognition of his dedication to preserving the SS Willis B. Boyer Museum Ship. Before becoming executive director of the Willis B. Boyer, LaMarre served as a deck officer on multiple Great Lakes towing vessels. A graduate of the California Maritime Academy, he holds a d egree in marine transportation and served in the Navy. LaMarre is a member of the International Ship m asters' Assoc. and GLHS, and serves as a board member of both the Marine Historical Society of Detroit and G reat Lakes & Seaway Shipping Online Inc. (GLHS, 480 Main Street, Vermil ion, OH 44089; Ph. 440 967-3467; www.i nl a ndseas.org) ... SEA HISTORY 131 , SUMMER 20 10
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