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| Lake Superior in Michigans Iron country 1800's
The Iron
Mountain Railroad became, by successive extensions and consolidations, first
the Bay de Noquet & Marquette railroad, then the Marquette & Ontonagon,
and subsequently the Marquette, Houghton & Ontonagan railroad. Under
this last consolidation the line was extended to L'Anse, docks built, and
another ore port established there, and later on a road reached Houghton,
and the copper and iron districts were at last united. Another outlet for
the shipment of Lake Superior iron ores was afforded by the completion, in
1864, of the Peninsula railroad from Negaunee to Escanaba.
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