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While Jay Cooke was investing in Duluth, Zenith City citizens stepped up as well. Duluth’s first mayor, J. B. Culver, financed the construction of Citizen’s Dock which reached into the lake from Morse Street, about two blocks south of the canal [...]
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Rapids on the St. Marys River prevented access to Lake Superior from the lower Great Lakes until a set of locks at Sault Ste. Marie were completed in 1855. This new canal bypassed a twenty-one-foot drop in the river and launched the development of ha [...]
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The passenger steamer George M. Cox was lost when she ran aground at Rock of Ages Lighthouse in 1933. A very dramatic photo exists showing her run up hard aground and bow first. Built in 1901 and 259 feet long, she was not salvaged and eventually the [...]
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The following description of impressive Rock of Ages Lighthouse was printed by the Lighthouse Service in 1912: Site.—The station is located off the west end of Isle Royal, northwestern end of Lake Superior. The site consists of a jutting rock ridg [...]
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Chisolm, a wooden bulk freighter that was built in 1880 and ran aground in the predawn hours of October 20, 1898. Large sections of the wooden hull lie scattered among the remains of another wreck, Cumberland, which hit Rock of Ages Reef on July 25, [...]
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The Glenlyon stranded on Nov. 1, 1924 on the shoal now named for it, off the tip of Menagerie Island, Isle Royale, while trying to seek shelter in Siskiwit Bay from a major storm. The Glenlyon was down bound from Ft. William with a load of wheat [...]
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The Congdon struck the Canoe Rocks reef in 1918 and eventually broke in half. The bow is largely intack and sets at a very sharp angle. The ship’s cargo and some equipment were salvaged before she broke up and sank. The pilothouse wheel and [...]
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"A Beautiful Ship: The magnificent New Monarch of the Beatty Line. Far the finest running to Duluth, Destined to be the popular passenger ship of the Upper Lakes… The cabin is finished in white and gold, and will be lighted by electricity. T [...]
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Captain William Brian, wet and frozen from the brutal storm, gripped the wooden wheel, his knuckles sharp and white against the battered red of his hands. Near gale force winds smashed wave after wave across the decks of his ship, the Kamloops. The 2 [...]
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