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The SS Marquette was a wooden-hulled, American Great Lakes freighter built in 1881, that sank on Lake Superior, five miles east of Michigan Island, Ashland County, Wisconsin, Apostle Islands, United States on October 15, 1903. [2] On the day of February 13, 2008 the remains of the Marquette were listed on the National Register of Historic ...
English: Map of the Pere Marquette River in Michigan, USA. Date: 14 February 2011: Source: Self-made using OpenJUMP with State of Michigan GIS data and Inkscape. Author:
Built in Cleveland, Ohio in 1905, the SS Marquette & Bessemer No. 2 was a train ferry built to transport railway cars across Lake Erie from Conneaut, Ohio, to Port Stanley, Ontario. She had a length of 338 feet (103 meters) and a beam of 54 feet (16 meters), and her gross register tonnage was 2,514.
International (1872), built for Grand Trunk, later in use for Pere Marquette on St. Clair River from 1903–27 Pere Marquette 10 (built 1945), in use as ferry until 1974, in use as barge until 1995 Pere Marquette 12 (1927), sold to Canadian National in 1969, renamed St. Clair , converted to barge 1980s, in use until 1995
Quickly outgrowing both the SS John Sherman and the terminal at Sheboygan, the line was shifted to Milwaukee in 1876. The Goodrich Transportation Company provided service under contract to the railroad from 1876 to 1883. Ships assigned to the route by Goodrich included the De Pere, Corona, Oconto, Alpena and, best-known of all, the City of ...
The road heads eastward roughly parallel to the Pere Marquette River. [5] [7] Near Custer, US 10 crosses into the Manistee National Forest. [8] The trunkline continues eastward through the forest passing north of the community of Walhalla. At Branch, it crosses out of Mason County and enters Lake County, jogging to the southeast through town ...
A diver over the wreck of SS New Orleans. Tied to the sanctuary is the Great Lakes Maritime Heritage Center. The museum, located in Alpena on the Thunder Bay River, features exhibits about local shipwrecks and the Great Lakes, an auditorium, an archaeological conservation laboratory, and education areas.
North of Sagola is the community of Channing which began as a railroad junction called "Fort Siding". In 1892, a post office was established named Channing, after John Parke Channing, a mining engineer who surveyed the area. [5] [7] M-95 crosses the Michigamme River at the Marquette County line.