Location: Redridge, MI

Redridge was located on a short branch off the Copper Range railroad Freda branch, about eight miles west of Painesdale Junction in Houghton County. The Atlantic Mine mill was located here.


Reddridge Trestle With TrainPhoto Info: An Atlantic & Lake Superior rock train crosses over the Steel Dam at Redridge in the early 1900's. [COPR]


Notes


Time Line

1901. The Redridge dam on Salmon Trout River, which is to supply water to both the Atlantic and Baltic mills will cost when completed $130,000. [BHN-1901-0330]

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

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