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Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
1898/00/00 George H Hulett Engineer George H Hulett invents a 100-foot-tall, 800-ton machine capable of unloading up to 17 tons of iron ore, coal, and limestone in a single operation from freighters via cantilevered arms and immense buckets.
1911/00/00 Pennsylvania Railroad Owner Construction begins on four Hulett Ore Unloaders at the Cleveland and Pittsburgh dock on Whiskey Island, Cleveland, for the Pennsylvania Railroad.
1912/00/00 Wellman-Seaver-Morgan Company Architect Four Hulett Ore Unloaders are erected at the Cleveland and Pittsburgh dock on Whiskey Island for the Pennsylvania Railroad by the Wellman-Seaver-Morgan Co of Cleveland.
2000/00/00 The four Hullet Ore Unloaders are dismantled. Two are sold for scrap while two remain dismantled on Whiskey Island.

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Particulars for Pennsylvania Railway Ore Dock:
Criteria Architecture-Engineering
Area of Significance Engineering
Criteria Exemplar
Sight Category Historic District
Area of Significance Industry
Area of Significance Invention
Area of Significance Railroad
Area of Significance Transportation
Historic Use Water-related



US National Registry of Historic Places Data »

Accurate at time of registration: 15th October 1997

PLACE DETAILS
Registry Name: Pennsylvania Railway Ore Dock
Registry Address: On Lake Erie at Whiskey Island
Registry Number: 95000492
Resource Type: District
Owner: Private
Architect: Hulett, George H.; Wellman-Seaver-Morgan Company
Area in Acres: 40
Contributing Buildings: 5
Contributing Sites: 1
Contributing Structures: 8
Other Certification: Date received-pending owner objection, Determined eligible-owner objection, Date received-pending nomination
Certification: Listed in the National Register
CULTURAL DETAILS
Level of Significance: State
Area of Significance: Transportation, Industry, Invention, Engineering
Applicable Criteria: Event, Architecture-Engineering
Significant Year: 1911, 1912
Historic Function: Transportation, Industry, processing, extraction
Historic Sub-Function: Water-related, Rail-related
Current Function: Vacant, not in use, Commerce, Trade, Industry, processing, extraction
Current Sub-Function: Warehouse

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