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Location: Ashland, WI - 1889 C&NW Ore Dock #2

Type: Timber

Built: 1889

Operated for 57 Years

Owner: Chicago & North Western railroad

Length: 2,040 feet

Height Above Water: 70.5 feet

Pockets: 340 pockets

Ended: 1946

Notes

Time Line

1889. Dock opens for business.

1946. Dock is decommissioned.

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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