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The Calcite port and quarry plant started operations in June 1910 and maintained offices in New York City and Rogers City. Hindshaw was the first general manager and was paid $3,500 per year. [39] He was replaced in October by Joseph Jenkins of Alpena, Michigan, who was paid $3,000 a year. [39]
Crawfords Quarry was a former settlement in Michigan, United States. It was established in 1864, and abandoned in 1900. In 1910 the location was resettled with the new name of Calcite. It is now within the city boundaries of Rogers City, Michigan. [1]
Rogers City was established in 1868, when William E. Rogers, Albert Molitor, Frederick Denny Larke, and John Raymond arrived to survey the area and for logging.In 1870, a post office opened in the settlement under the name Rogers' Mills, though this name was changed several times; to Rogers City in 1872, to Rogers in 1895, and back to Rogers City in 1928.
Calcite Limestone Quarry, Rogers City, Michigan, the largest limestone quarry in the world, now owned by Carmeuse and operated as Carmeuse Calcite Operations. Limestone was first mined here in 1912 and continues through the present.
Exercise Northern Strike is a military readiness exercise hosted annually at Michigan National Guard facilities, including the Alpena CRTC, Camp Grayling Joint Maneuver Training Center, Grayling Aerial Gunnery Range, the Carmeuse Calcite Quarry in Rogers City, the former site of K.I. Sawyer Air Force Base as well as over the skies of northern Michigan and Lake Huron.
It ran north from a junction with the Detroit and Mackinac Railway main line near Posen, Michigan, to Rogers City, Michigan, on the shore of Lake Huron. The Detroit and Mackinac opened the line in 1911, and it was abandoned by the Lake State Railway in 2000. A major customer on the branch was the limestone quarry in Calcite, east of Rogers City.
New Orleans serves as the host city for a league record-tying 11th time on Sunday. Goodell and the league applauded renovations to the Superdome as the centerpiece of the headline event in pro sports.
The Rogers City Formation is a geologic formation in Michigan. It preserves fossils dating back to the Devonian period. Earth sciences portal; Michigan portal;