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Furnace: Carp River Furnace, Negaunee, MI
Opened → Carp River Furnace → Closed
Operated: Off and on for 33 years.
From: 1874
Owned by:
Produced: Pig Iron.
Method: Charcoal blast furnace.
Railroad connection: MH&O connection.
Until: Off and on until 1907
Lifetime Production:
Notes
The Carp River Furnace was located at the mouth of the Carp River at Lake Superior. This was about 1.3 miles south of downtown Marquette. The MH&O built a 2.08 mile spur to this facility from Marquette for inbound ore shipments.
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Bibliography
The following sources are utilized in this website. [SOURCE-YEAR-MMDD-PG]:
- [AAB| = All Aboard!, by Willis Dunbar, Eerdmans Publishing, Grand Rapids ©1969.
- [AAN] = Alpena Argus newspaper.
- [AARQJ] = American Association of Railroads Quiz Jr. pamphlet. © 1956
- [AATHA] = Ann Arbor Railroad Technical and Historical Association newsletter "The Double A"
- [AB] = Information provided at Michigan History Conference from Andrew Bailey, Port Huron, MI