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Location: Marquette, MI - 1890 DSS&A Ore Dock #4
Type: Timber
Built: 1890
Operated for 20 Years
Owner: DSS&A Railroad
Length:
Height Above Water:
Pockets:
Ended: 1910
Image info: Ore "punchers" pose for a photo at the DSS&A ore dock. [PWL]
Notes
DSS&A Ore Dock #4 was built in 1890 and dismantled in 1910. It has been noted that 6,500 Norway Pine trees were used for the piles. It was dismantled to build a coal dock.
Time Line
1890. February 22. The contract for the new No. 4 dock of the DSS&A at the foot of Jackson cut was let yesterday by general manager Fitch to Henry & Balch, of Minneapolis, who built the great Ashland and Gladstone docks. The new dock will have 200 pockets, a loading lenth of 1,200 feet and a total length with approach of 1,760 feet. This, along with the 300 feet extension of No. 3 dock will more than double the present loading capacity. The contractors have agreed to have the entire work finished by June 15. [IWT-1890-0222]
1890. Ore dock #4 is built and begins operation.
1910. Dismantled to build a coal dock.
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