With shoreline bordering four of the five Great Lakes, Michigan sees a great deal of freighter traffic during the shipping season. With ships making 10,000 passage through the Soo Locks alone each season, chances to see one of these massive vessels in action are aplenty. 1,000-foot lakers haul steel, coal, limestone and more from Lake Superior to Lakes Michigan …
The majority of the photos cover the 1920s-1970s, which includes the Golden Age of railroading. These docks and the stories they contain are a unique piece of Americana. The remaining docks are falling apart and partially stripped. But through this book, railfans, modelers and history buffs can continue to appreciate the Great Northern Iron Ore ...
We're lighting up the Ore Dock for the holidays AGAIN! For the month of December, we wanted to bring something festive to downtown Marquette—something that would excite locals and visitors alike. So we decided to merge local history with modern technology and put on a laser light show on the north side of the iconic Lower Harbor Ore Dock.
"This particular dock went into service in 1918 and it shipped ore until 1965," Monroe said. Train cars would pull iron ore from regional mines to the dock, where it was unloaded for transport on huge ships to steel mills. Monroe said the dock could handle more than 100,000 tons of ore at once.
Iron Ore Docks. I did this painting in Two Harbors, Minnesota. It was painted early in the morning and was featured in one of our PBS television episodes "Painting and Travel." I was attracted to the subject because of the contrasting light and the strong shapes which made up the composition. ... Site designed by ...
Built in 1912, the pocket dock is still in use today. Maritime historian Frederick Stonehouse says the city of Marquette began because of the discovery of iron ore back in 1844 in the Ishpeming and Negaunee area, …
Marquette had the nation's first ore dock built exclusively for iron back in the mid-1800s, and the ore dock that has become synonymous with Marquette in the lower harbor …
The plan was to transport mined iron ore from the area around appropriately-named Ore City, down the PB&IO to Port Bolivar and a connection with the Gulf and Interstate Railway, which would transport it just a bit more to the Gulf of Mexico, and then by ship to Philadelphia. Construction began and the line was completed from Longview (and a ...
Iron ore ships are loaded daily. The pocket ore dock of the Lake Superior and Ishpeming Railroad in Marquette represents a historically significant engineering feat. It was the first such dock of its type constructed on the …
The ore dock in Marquette's Lower Harbor is moving closer to being re-vitalized. The Friends of the Ore Dock BotEco Center group plans to build a walkway out to a new public space, being built on ...
Marquette, MI: Presque Isle Park & Ore Dock Maria. 10:00:00 AM marquette, michigan, ore dock, presque isle park. The first full day in Marquette we took our time just kind of hanging out and regrouping (we were a little over halfway …
Two Harbors is a city with a population of 5,000. It is 30 miles northeast of Duluth. It is on Lake Superior and owes its importance to its heavy shipment of iron ore. About 50 miles northwest of Two Harbors is the greatest ore …
Marquette's Lower Harbor is home to possibly the most iconic structure in the entire area: the Ore Dock. The Lower Harbor Ore Dock was built in 1931 by the Duluth, South Shore and Atlantic...
The Lower Harbor Ore Dock is located in Marquette in Michigan's Marquette County. It is a relic of Marquette's iron ore mining and maritime industry used for loading ore onto lake freighters.
These docks are now unintentional monuments to the past, and one is even seeing a rather creative new life. This ore dock history-in-photos will kick off with the Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range Railway's docks of west Duluth, and then move across the harbor to Superior. Duluth's six ore docks. Duluth's DM&IR ore docks, ca. 1930.
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One of the most striking features of the waterfront in Marquette is the Upper Harbor ore dock. Built in 1912, the pocket dock is still in use today. Maritime historian Frederick Stonehouse says the city of Marquette began because of the discovery of iron ore back in 1844 in the Ishpeming and Negaunee area, about 20 miles west of Marquette.
The electric Huletts were installed at the Huron docks in the winter of 1949-50 at a cost of $1,600,000. The Joseph Thompson was a frequent visitor to the docks, coming about 40 times a year. The Huron Lime Plant was erected in 1966-67 after the coal dock closed. The plant converted shiploads of limestone into hydrated lime for steelmaking.
The Iron Ore Dock in Marquette's Upper Harbor is also known as the Presque Isle Dock. The dock was built in 1911 and is still commercially active. Each year approximately 9.5 to 10 million tons of ore are shipped from …
Fishing houses and boats are shown in the 1890s at what is now Mattson Lower Harbor Park in Marquette. The area pictured was filled in throughout the last century for coal and iron ore shipping.
IRON ORE. 1 (Data in thousand metric tons, usable ore, unless otherwise noted) Domestic Production and Use: In 2020, mines in Michigan and Minnesota shipped 98% of the usable iron ore products, which were consumed in the steel industry in the United States with an estimated value of $4.1 billion, a decrease from $4.4 billion in 2019.
1035 Calcite Road Rogers City, MI, 49779. Plant Location Cedarville Operation 5093 East Highway M 134 Cedarville, MI, 49719. Plant Location Cleveland Dock 1246 River Road Cleveland, OH, 44102. Carmeuse Terminal Conneaut Terminal 22 Ore Docks RD Erie, PA, 16507. Plant Location Drummond Island Operation ... Iron & Steel. Non-Ferrous Mining ...
Rogers City is a beautiful, well-protected marina, with an excellent State-funded facility. One will receive the highest possible cooperation from harbormaster Wayne Saile, his staff, and the townspeople. The Marina (989-734-3808) has 123 slips – 103 are floating docks and 20 are stationary. Of the 123 slips, a minimum of 51 are available for ...
Moran Iron Works is a HUBZone-certified Small Business Concern that was founded in 1978 by Thomas Moran and has their headquarters and largest manufacturing facility (125,000 total sq. ft.) in Onaway, Michigan, and access via their high-wire corridor to their Deep Water Port in Rogers City, Michigan.
This 1,200 foot long ore dock is the primary port for the remaining iron mines operating on the Upper Peninsula (currently mostly the Tilden Mine, 15 miles west). The UP was a major early source of iron ore feeding the American steel industry, and the largest source in the USA by the 1890s. Most of the ore was taken by rail to Marquette and Escanaba, where it was loaded on …
Marquette had the nation's first ore dock built exclusively for iron back in the mid-1800s, and the ore dock that has become synonymous with Marquette in the lower harbor was built in 1931. It was still used until the 1970s, when it was discontinued, making the Upper Harbor (or Presque Isle) Ore Dock the only operating dock in Michigan.
Iron ore shipments from the port to steelmakers around the Great Lakes have reached 9.5 million tons so far in the shipping season, which began in March. At that pace it could be one of the ...
History of the Iron Ore Trade. This brief history appeared in the 1910 Annual Report of the Lake Carriers' Association. The iron ore trade is, of course, the trade of the Great Lakes, but it was not always so. The premier trade for so many years was grain, then lumber took first place, giving way subsequently to coal.
Marquette LS&I Railroad Ore Dock, Michigan. This 1,200 foot long ore dock is the primary port for the remaining iron mines operating on the Upper Peninsula (currently mostly the Tilden …
This thousand-foot long ore dock, in Marquette's Lower Harbor, is a remnant of the days when the Upper Peninsula, including the Marquette Iron Range, was one of the largest sources of iron ore in the USA. There once were six ore docks at Marquette, a town founded in the mid 19 th century to support the mines, located 15 miles west of town ...
The pocket ore dock of the Lake Superior and Ishpeming Railroad in Marquette represents a historically significant engineering feat. It was the first such dock of its type constructed on the Upper Great Lakes and is the only operating ore-loading facility in Marquette's harbors. Iron ore ships are loaded daily.
