U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Vessel Yard
- U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Vessel Yard
Infobox_nrhp | name =U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Vessel Yard
nrhp_type =
caption =U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Vessel Yard
location= Jct. of Ninth St., S. and Minnesota Ave.
Duluth, Minnesota
lat_degrees = 46 | lat_minutes = 46 | lat_seconds = 30.4 | lat_direction = N
long_degrees = 92 | long_minutes = 5 | long_seconds = 35 | long_direction = W
area =
built =1904
architect=
architecture=
added =October 23, 1995
governing_body = Army Corp of Engineers
refnum=95001163 [cite web|url=http://www.nr.nps.gov/|title=National Register Information System|date=2007-01-23|work=National Register of Historic Places|publisher=National Park Service] ]The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Vessel Yard in the U.S. city of Duluth was constructed between Lake Superior and Duluth's harbor, midway between Duluth and Superior, Wisconsin.
History
After the construction of the St. Mary's Falls Ship Canal was completed at Sault Ste. Marie, ships carrying grain, lumber, coal, and iron ore could carry the natural resources of the Midwest to East Coast ports. By the late 19th century the Army Corp of Engineers was tasked to create a bustling harbor at the western end of Lake Superior. For several years they created breakwaters, dredged channels, and built docks to accommodate ever-larger cargo-hauling ships. By the turn of the century, the Vermilion and Mesabi Iron Ranges were producing nearly 8 million long tons (8,100,000 Mg) of ore per year. The Corps was busy—between 1897 and 1902 they dredged 22 million cubic yards (17,000,000 cubic metres) out of the Duluth and Superior harbors, creating a convert|360|acre|km2|-1|sing=on|lk=on harbor with convert|17|mi|km|0 of ship channels. By 1906, the quantity of material shipped through the harbors was dominated only that of New York and Philadelphia.[cite book|name=Gardner| last =Gardner| first =Denis P.| title =Minnesota Treasures| publisher =Minnesota Historical Society Press| date =2004| pages =116-120| isbn=0873-514718] ]New location
In 1904, the Corps acquired its present site on the sandy spit of Minnesota Point, midway between Duluth and Superior. Few of the original buildings remain, but the mission continues—to keep the harbors open to increasingly larger ships.
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