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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]
She was outfitted with her fore and aft housing in the ensuing months until her maiden voyage, when her namesake Carl David Bradley, the president of Michigan Limestone; Bradley's wife; the Rogers City community band; and hundreds of Rogers City residents greeted her as she steamed into Calcite Harbor on July 28, 1927.
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]
The Michigan Central Station restoration used limestone on the façade and interior obtained from the Lawrence County, Indiana quarry that provided the original limestone. This image of hauling ...
Carl Bradley and W. F. White at Calcite in 1919. This house was constructed in 1914 by George J. Radka, a local contractor and the owner of a planing mill. [2] Radka died unexpectedly at the end of 1914, and in 1915 the house was sold to J. L. Marsters, general superintendent of the Michigan Limestone and Chemical Company. [3]
M/V Calcite II 1929 2011 As the William G. Clyde she was transferred from the Pittsburg steamship Co. and given a self unloader in 1960; Repowered 1961; Sold to Grand River Navigation in 2001 and renamed Maumee; Scrapped 2011; The Taylor (left) in her Pittsburg Steamship Co. configuration: M/V Myron C. Taylor 1929 2007
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.
The SS Cedarville left Port Calcite at 5:01 a.m. with a crew of 35 men. She was travelling between Rogers City, Michigan [4] and Gary, Indiana with a load of 14,411 long tons (14,642 t) of open-hearth limestone. [2] [5] Her captain, Martin Joppich, had gotten the position the previous year.