by William Lafferty » May 9, 2021, 12:52 pm
Theissen-Clemens of Benton Harbor built a gasoline and furnace oil storage facility around where the Irish Boat Shop is now by Stover Creek in the 1930s. Cities Service took it over in 1948. It received gasoline and fuel oil from Cleveland Tankers and Mobil boats and others until replaced by pipeline in the late 1960s. Ironton has had an aggregate dock for about forever receiving the odd self-unloader every once and awhile. Of course, East Jordan was a destination for iron way back in the day, and Boyne City shipped charcoal also used at its own iron smelter. The plant at Advance was a "rural power plant" opened in 1954 and closed, as said, in 1997. Many fleets served it, including GLF, American Steamship, Tomlinson, Columbia, Reiss, and Gartland, through the years.
Theissen-Clemens of Benton Harbor built a gasoline and furnace oil storage facility around where the Irish Boat Shop is now by Stover Creek in the 1930s. Cities Service took it over in 1948. It received gasoline and fuel oil from Cleveland Tankers and Mobil boats and others until replaced by pipeline in the late 1960s. Ironton has had an aggregate dock for about forever receiving the odd self-unloader every once and awhile. Of course, East Jordan was a destination for iron way back in the day, and Boyne City shipped charcoal also used at its own iron smelter. The plant at Advance was a "rural power plant" opened in 1954 and closed, as said, in 1997. Many fleets served it, including GLF, American Steamship, Tomlinson, Columbia, Reiss, and Gartland, through the years.