Century-old shipwreck discovered in Lake Michigan by a 25-year-old angler

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The J.C. Ames in 1881, 144 years later, it was discovered in Lake Michigan by Christopher Thuss. What he had discovered was no ordinary catch, but a 102-year-old shipwreck, the J.C. Ames. The J.C. Ames did not originally show up in their database, so Thomsen asked a volunteer to do his own research. “He came up with a few more, and the only one that fits is this J.C. Ames,” said Thomsen. The J.C. Ames did that until 1885, when it was used by the Lake Michigan Car Ferry Transportation Co. to move barges of rail cars between Chicago and Peshtigo.