A History of the First Church of Evans Into this wilderness, along the southern shores of Lake Erie, pioneered the white man, in his western trek of civilization, when in the year 1803, Ebenezer Ingersoll and in the year, 1804, Joel Harvey established themselves at, or near, the mouth of Eighteen Mile Creek where it flows into Lake Erie. The only means of access, we are told, at that time, … Continue reading History