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Location: Marquette, MI - 1888 DSS&A Ore Dock #3
Type: Timber
Built: 1888
Owner: Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic Railway
Length: > 650 feet
Height Above Water:: 35 feet.
Pockets:
Ended:
Notes
The DSS&A built dock #3 in 1888. It was a timber dock and was the longest dock on Lake Superior at the time of completion. It was 35 feet high and at least 650 feet long.
Time Line
1888. Dock is built and utilized.
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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