** Many Port Clinton, Ohio, businesses reported record sales.
** Kellys Island reported selling 360 sail-away tickets for the tall ship tours.
** Despite its summer season being shortened by the sequestered federal budget cuts, visitors to the Perry Peace memorial were up 40% over the summer of 2012.
** The tall ships were a big reason for all the tourists. There were also plenty of land re-enactments and naval re-enactments are very rare.
On October 3, 2013, at 8 p.m. EST, WGTE Toledo PBS will show a half hour documentary on the re-enactment.
--Brock-Perry
2012 marks the 200th anniversary of America's "Forgotten War," the War of 1812 that took place over three years, 1812 to 1815.
Battle of New Orleans.
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