Marine Mill Site

Marine Mill Site (HMUIZ)

Location: Marine on St Croix, MN 55047 Washington County
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Country: United States of America
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N 45° 11.869', W 92° 46.135'

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One of Minnesota's first major industries was born here on August 24, 1839, when the slow, cumbersome up-and-down saw of the Marine Lumber Company cut the first commercial lumber in the state from trees felled in the rich white pine forests of the St. Croix Valley. The mill was built by a group of settlers from Marine, Illinois, at a site selected a year earlier by David Hone and Lewis S. Judd.

During the winter of 1839-40, the saw at Marine produced about 5,000 board feet of lumber a day. From this modest beginning, the much rebuilt and enlarged mill of the Walker, Judd and Veazie Lumber Company was by 1877 turning out two million board feet of lumber, 500,000 shingles, and 200,000 laths a year with an average daily work crew of fourteen men.

Financial depression, a huge log jam that prevented logs from reaching the mill, extensive tornado damage, and a low-water summer combined to cause the failure of the business in 1885. By 1895, after a few years of intermittent operation in the hands of other companies, the mill closed forever, and the extensive frame buildings were torn down. Only the ruins of the mill's enginehouse, which can be seen by following the path to the overlook, serve as reminder of Minnesota's magnificent pine forests and the profitable lumber industry that built the towns and cities of an expanding nineteenth-century mid-America.

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Erected by the Minnesota Historical Society
1985
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HM NumberHMUIZ
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Year Placed1985
Placed ByThe Minnesota Historical Society
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Date Added Saturday, October 25th, 2014 at 7:29pm PDT -07:00
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UTM (WGS84 Datum)15T E 518150 N 5004951
Decimal Degrees45.19781667, -92.76891667
Degrees and Decimal MinutesN 45° 11.869', W 92° 46.135'
Degrees, Minutes and Seconds45° 11' 52.14" N, 92° 46' 8.10" W
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Area Code(s)651
Closest Postal AddressAt or near 180 Judd St, Marine on St Croix MN 55047, US
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