Some rather significant grain elevators have been torn down in the Two Ports. These two elevators used to be on Rice's Point. They were torn down in 1998. The title should have been:
Lost/Cargill C/Peavy/Occident/Russell Miller Milling and
Lost/Cargill D/Peavy Grain Elevators on Rice's Point.
But that was getting too long. Cargill replaced these elevators with a new one.
The elevator in the foreground was Peavy. The elevator on the other side of the dock and at the next slip was Occident. The next elevator is Duluth Lake Port Storage/Capital.
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| David Schauer posted A view made in 1976 of the Duluth port terminal with a number of ocean vessels in the frame plus a silver stacker at Hyman Michaels (Azcon) waiting to be scrapped. Basgen Photography |
"F.H. Peavey & Company was established at Sioux City, Iowa, in 1874 by Frank H. Peavey. Minneapolis became headquarters of the firm in 1884. The name of the business was changed to Peavey Company in 1962. The firm went public in 1973 and , in 1982, was acquired by ConAgra, Inc." [mnhs]
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| HAER MN-97-A 2. Peavey Duluth Terminal Elevator, 1908 Duluth main workhouse, ceramic tile and brick dryer building between workhouse and annex, south wall shipping side. - Peavey Duluth Terminal Elevator, Workhouse, South side of first slip, north from outer end of Rice's Point, east of Garfield Avenue, Duluth, St. Louis County, MN Photos from Survey HAER MN-97-A |
The Occident and Peavey elevators are in the center of this photo. At first, David's comment indicating that the left (north) elevator was Peavey confused me until I learned that Peavey bought Occident. That would explain the connection that was added between the two elevators.
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| David Schauer posted Here is a 1978 image of Rices Point. This one shows a Soo Line Geep switching the Peavey elevator complex and an EMD end-cab switcher by the yard office. The bottom has the C&NW/Omaha, GN and NP yards with the Soo yard off to the right center. There appears to be lots of Milwaukee Road equipment for scrap. 11/21/1978 Basgen Photography Jody Aho: It also looks like the scorched, burned-out remains of the Harry L. Allen being scrapped at Hyman-Michaels. For the non-Boatnerd railfans, the 545-foot steamer Harry L. Allen burned alongside the former Capitol #4 elevator in Duluth (just outside the view of this photo) in a spectacular fire on January 21-22, 1978. Barry Klinetobe: I read the the hull of Harry Allen was red hot. Eric Holst: Would be interesting to find out when Occident/Cargill C and Peavey/Cargill D loaded their final ships. Jody Aho: I think D was in 1977, C a few years after that. If anyone else can get more specific or remembers what boats, please add. Eric Holst: Thanks, Jody! It's a detail I'm not sure I've ever seen discussed. Elevator D indeed looks quiet in this particular photo. Tim Pranke: Interesting to see Occident and Peavey had a connection. David Schauer: Tim Pranke I wonder if that was added after 1960 when Peavey bought that elevator? Tim Pranke: That would make sense. It's not on the 1955 Sanborn maps. Kent Rengo: Man, look at all those 40 foot boxcars! |
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| Dennis DeBruler commented on David's post I found that those elevators are not only abandoned, they are gone! |
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| David commented on Jody's comment Note new concrete silos are well under construction to make up for the lost storage. [David is commenting on the silos in the right foreground of the Duluth Lake Port Storage/Capital elevator.] |
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| Association for Great Lakes Maritime History posted The freighter Frank W. Hart arriving in Duluth, Minn. covered in ice, circa 1923-1929 (Image Source: University of Wisconsin Madison Libraries Digital Collection – The Great Lakes Maritime History Project). The notes for the image do not include the date or location. The photograph is part of the Kenneth E. Thro Collection of the Jim Dan Hill Library at the University of Wisconsin Superior. The photographer was Hugh McKenzie (1879-1957) so the image may have been taken in Duluth, Minn. Based on the vessel’s history, it is circa 1901-1929. According to two sources, the location is the Northwestern Coal Dock No. 4, across from the Occident Elevator. The head house and east silos of the elevator (as shown) were built in 1923. The west silos (absent) were built in 1930. That dates the image to circa 1923-1929. Image Information Sources: Kent Rengo and Tim Pranke [The description continues with a history of the freighter.] |
The seven interior shots of the Peavey Duluth Terminal Elevator from HAER. All of these are 1908 photos in the main workhouse.
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| 1 Scale floor, looking up to machine floor at drive shaft. Note ceramic tile ceiling. |
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| 2 Scale floor detail of rope pulley system-south wall looking east. |
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| 3 Fairbanks scale |
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| 4 Spout floor-mayo spouts [distribution floor] looking roughly west to east |
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| 5 Spout floor-grain dryer on north wall |
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| 6 Spout floor with mayo distribution spouts from northeast corner |
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| 7 Scale floor, looking east from middle of south wall |
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AllPosters, that site allows ordering prints of this art [This indicates that the concrete silos next to the original Peavey elevator were built before the concrete silos along the slip.] |
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| 1 Occident Terminal Elevator and annex, (l)-1930/workhouse and annex 1925 with train shed Peavey Duluth Terminal Annex on left 1930-workhouse 1908 (white silos). - Occident Terminal Elevator & Storage Annex, South side of second slip, north from outer end of Rice's Point, east of Garfield Avenue, Duluth, St. Louis County, MN Photos from Survey HAER MN-96 [I do not understand the HAER caption. My understanding is Occident is the second elevator. The one on the right is Peavy.] |
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| 2 Occident Terminal Elevator, annex on left built 1930, workhouse, train shed and annex on right built 1925. Occident Elevator Co., Division of Russell-Miller Milling Co., N.D. - Occident Terminal Elevator & Storage Annex, South side of second slip, north from outer end of Rice's Point, east of Garfield Avenue, Duluth, St. Louis County, MN Photos from Survey HAER MN-96 |
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| 3 Occident Terminal Elevator. Reinforced concrete. First total "electric" elevator at Duluth. (Powered by electrical substation instead of steam generator). - Occident Terminal Elevator & Storage Annex, South side of second slip, north from outer end of Rice's Point, east of Garfield Avenue, Duluth, St. Louis County, MN Photos from Survey HAER MN-96 |
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| 4 Occident Terminal Elevator 1925 [Russell Miller Milling Co.] Taken from east side, looking northwest. - Occident Terminal Elevator & Storage Annex, South side of second slip, north from outer end of Rice's Point, east of Garfield Avenue, Duluth, St. Louis County, MN Photos from Survey HAER MN-96 |
And here is a view of the side by the slip.
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| LC-USF34- 063617-D [P&P] LOT 1130 Grain boat loading at Occident elevator. Duluth, Minnesota |
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