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Location: Ashland, WI - 1918 Wisconsin Central Ore Dock #2
Type: Timber, replaced by concrete after 1918
Built: 1888
Operated for 125 years
Owner: Wisconsin Central Railroad, later Soo Line Railroad
Length: Lengthened to 1,800 feet in 1925.
Height Above Water: 81 feet
Pockets: 300 pockets
Ended: 2013
Notes
Time Line
1888. New dock opens.
1900. Dock is rebuilt after a fire.
1918. Dock is replaced by a concrete dock in same location.
1925. Dock is lengthened to 1,800 feet.
2013. Use of the dock is discontinued.
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