Mesabi Miner arrived Duluth at 15:00 today - no horn so I speed it up a bit.
Monday, September 7, 2015
Sunday, September 6, 2015
Harbor History; September 6, 1905: Superior arrives in Superior
On this day across the bay in 1905, the steamer Superior, captained by Donald Gillis, arrived for the first time in the city she was named for. She steamed to Elevator K at Superior’s East End and took on a partial load of grain; the next day the rest of the vessel was loaded with […]
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| The steamer Superior. (Image: Great Lakes Vessel Index.) |
Saturday, September 5, 2015
Harbor History -September 5, 1870: The Ishpeming Starts Carving a Canal
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On this day in Duluth in 1870, the dredging tug Ishpeming, owned by W. W. Williams & Co. and piloted by Major John Upham, bit into Minnesota Point along a dirt roadway platted as Portage Street, which followed the same path local Ojibwe called Onigamiinsing or “Little Portage,” the very trail thought to be taken […]
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| The dredging tug Ishpeming and a barge docked along Minnesota Point near wear the tug cut the Duluth Ship Canal. (Image: Lake Superior Maritime Collection.) |
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