Dock - Marquette, MI - 1859 - Cleveland Iron Company Dock

Type: Timber

Built: 1859 - $125,000 cost. Rebuilt in 1871.

Owner: Cleveland Iron Company

Length:

Height Above Water: Eventually 36.5 feet.

Pockets: 35 - all on one side. Other side is used for general merchandise, an ordinary steamboat dock.

Ended: Unknown - may have been purchased

Notes

Iron ore is hauled onto the dock by the Marquette, Houghton & Ontonagon railroad (CI does did its own forwarding).[Source: Chicago Tribune-1873-0204]

Time Line

1855. This dock was at the foot of Superior Street, later Baraga Avenue. Reached from a spur off the strap railroad. [DSS]

1868. The Cleveland Company allowed the M&O to have 8 hours access to this dock after their own dock was destroyed by fire. A new M&O dock was built, opening in August 31, 1868. [DSS]

1870. This dock was torn down and replaced with a new facility with a 2,200 ton capacity, 7 feet higher (36.5 feet above the water) and 29 vessel pockets. The new dock reopened in 1871.

1872. A new 350 foot extension is added to the Cleveland dock with 54 pockets. [DSS]

1874. To be expanded in 1874 to 54 pockets holding 2,700 tons.