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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]
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.
In 1910 the location was resettled with the new name of Calcite. It is now within the city boundaries of Rogers City, Michigan. [1] References
Calcite Limestone Quarry, Rogers City, Michigan, the largest limestone quarry in the world, now owned by Carmeuse and operated as Carmeuse Calcite Operations. Limestone was first mined here in 1912 and continues through the present.
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.
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
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.
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.