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The wreck of Algoma The Algoma wreck. On November 5, 1885, Algoma left Owen Sound for Thunder Bay, carrying general merchandise, railway supplies, and 37 passengers, the fewest it had ever carried. [5] This was likely attributable to the lateness of the season and the recent opening of a rail route around Lake Superior. [5]
Many smaller French "ships" were reported upon Lake Superior in the 18th century, which were gone before the English arrival in 1763. Along the north shore of the lake, the most celebrated wreck is that of the America which served as a connection between Isle Royale and the mainland and was a highway from Duluth, Minnesota, to Port Arthur, Ontario.
America (Official No. 107367) [2] was a steel-hulled ship, built by the Detroit Dry Dock Company in Wyandotte at what is today the Wyandotte shores golf course [3] and launched on April 2, 1898. [4] The ship was 184 feet long, 31 feet wide, and 11 feet in depth. [ 4 ]
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Agawam was founded around 1909, when its post office was built; the post office closed in 1918. [3]On 19 October 1915, two Rock Island Railroad trains collided head-on here, a southbound passenger train and a northbound freight train, resulting in seven fatalities and numerous injuries; engineer William Powell was blamed for the accident.
This map from NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio (Michala Garrison, Ernie Wright, Laurence Schuler and Ian Jones) shows the path of totality for the April 8, 2024, Total Solar Eclipse.
The Straits of Mackinac Shipwreck Preserve is a 148-square-mile (380 km 2) state preserve in and around the Straits of Mackinac. The preserve is divided in two by the Mackinac Bridge . The waters of the preserve include the waters offshore from Mackinaw City and St. Ignace , as well as all or part of the shorelines of Bois Blanc Island ...