Presque Isle Ore Dock Upper Harbor
by Paul LeSage
Title
Presque Isle Ore Dock Upper Harbor
Artist
Paul LeSage
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Photograph - Photography
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The Iron Ore Dock in Marquette's Upper Harbor is also known as the Presque Isle Dock. The dock was built in 1911 and is still commercially active.
Each year approximately 9.5 to 10 million tons of ore are shipped from this dock. The dock is owned and operated by the Cliffs Natural Resources. The top deck sits 75 feet above the water level. It contains 200 pockets, each of which has a capacity of 250 tons of ore, for a total storage capacity of 50,000 tons.
Iron extracted from mines in western Marquette County was transported via rail to the top of the dock, emptied into the structure's pocket chutes and loaded onto vessels docked below.
In the 1890s, Upper Michigan was the largest supplier of iron ore in the United States. Railroads would haul ore from the mines to great ore docks on the Great Lakes in places such as Escanaba and Marquette, where it would be loaded on ore freighters and transported to the rest of the country.
The first dock specifically for the ore trade was built in Marquette in 1857. It was flat rather than elevated, and the vessels were loaded with wheelbarrows.
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