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The state provided auto ferry service between 1923 and 1957. The ferries carried almost 1 million cars a year in the mid-1950s before the bridge opened in 1957. At that time, there were five ferries running with a total capacity of 500 cars; the largest ferry could carry 150. [2] In their last year of service, the state ferries employed 400 ...
SS Badger is a passenger and vehicle ferry in the United States that has been in service on Lake Michigan since 1953. Currently, the ship shuttles between Ludington, Michigan, and Manitowoc, Wisconsin, a distance of 62 miles (100 km), connecting U.S. Highway 10 (US 10) between those two cities.
A bridge was built in 1894 to cross the Menominee River at Koss, Michigan to Wagner, Wisconsin. [8] Wisconsin-Michigan Railroad bridge, spanning Menominee River, Marinette County, WI. On December 2, 1894, the Wisconsin & Michigan Railway began passenger service from Peshtigo, Wi to Faithorn Junction and two days later followed with freight ...
Marinette is a city in and the county seat of Marinette County, Wisconsin, United States. [5] It is located on the south bank of the Menominee River, at its mouth at Green Bay, part of Lake Michigan; to the north is Stephenson Island, part of the city preserved as park. [6]
Menominee (/ m ə ˈ n ɒ m ə n i / mə-NOM-ə-nee) is a city and the county seat of Menominee County, Michigan in the Upper Peninsula. The population was 8,488 at the 2020 census . It is the county seat of Menominee County . [ 5 ]
SS City of Milwaukee is a Great Lakes railroad car ferry that once plied Lake Michigan, often between Muskegon, Michigan and Milwaukee, Wisconsin.She was built in 1931 for the Grand Trunk Milwaukee Car Ferry Company and is the only pre-1940s ship of this type to survive.
State Ferry Dock in St. Ignace 1929 [56] 1957 [110] Former route from US 2 to state ferry docks for service from St. Ignace to Mackinaw City; ferry service ended after the Mackinac Bridge was opened in 1957. M-123: 96.071: 154.611 I-75 near St. Ignace: M-28 near Newberry: 1936 [111] current Tahquamenon Scenic Heritage Route M-124
Menominee River watershed White Rapids Hydroelectric dam. The Menominee River is a river in northwestern Michigan and northeastern Wisconsin in the United States.It is approximately 116 miles (187 km) long, [4] draining a rural forested area of northern Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan into Lake Michigan.