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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]
Roadside Park on US-23, Huron Beach, near Hammond Bay Refuge Harbor, 26 miles north of Rogers City Rogers Township: January 19, 1957: Metz Fire Informational Designation Metz Township Hall, Gramba Road Metz: February 27, 1970: Michigan Limestone and Chemical Company Quarry: 1035 Calcite Road Rogers City: May 1, 1959: Old Presque Isle Lighthouse ...
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.
The pilot house of the SS Calcite is located on the grounds of 40 Mile Lighthouse Park in Rogers City, Michigan. The Calcite was built in 1912 and was at the time the largest self-unloading ship in the world. [14] The pilot house of the cement carrier S.S. St Mary's Challenger is located at the National Museum of the Great Lakes in Toledo, OH.
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]
The Rogers City Formation is a geologic formation in Michigan. It preserves fossils dating back to the Devonian period.
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.