• 12/20/24

How to Ship 800 Billion Pounds of Rock (The Marquette Ore Docks)

Key Topics:

  • Marquette, Michigan

  • Brief history of iron shipping in Marquette

  • Why ore docks were constructed

  • What the first ore docks were like

  • History of the Lower and Upper Harbor Ore Docks

  • How the Upper Harbor Ore Dock works today

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