Group announces find of wrecked vessel Nelson

DEER PARK, MI - The Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society says it has discovered the wreckage of a schooner that sank in Lake Superior in 1899, killing nine people, including the captain's wife and infant child.

MLive.com (http://bit.ly/1rGT31z ) reports that searchers found the gravesite of the Nelson last month in more than 200 feet of water off Deer Park.

Full story: WJFW

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