You might have seen the news story on a University of Wisconsin-Superior feasibility study of a water taxi between Barkers Island and Park Point. In what’s old is new again, I remember hearing of a ferry that used to run between Superior and the end of Park Point, when a community of summer cabins existed out there. But I can’t find any information on it, such as when it operated and where it docked on either the Superior or Park Point sides. Does anybody know where I can find any information on that?
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The post “Duluth’s Pine Knot Cabin on Minnesota Point – Everything you wanted to know about its removal, history, etc.” refers to the ferry:
I don’t know the specifics you are looking for, but maybe that info will help you find more details.
Thanks Paul, that’s a big help. Working on a story for the Park Point Breeze.
I just did a very cursory search, and found Mrs. Peabody’s obit in 1907. (DNT 3/12/1907) It says her son and husband ran the ferry from the East End in Superior to Park Point, and had been for sixteen years at that date. I see more articles that mention various groups using it until 1914. Also, that the Peabody landing was also known as the Quebec Pier.
I’ve always wanted to dress in a hooded cloak, carry an eerie lantern and drive a pontoon back and forth between Rice’s and Connor’s points offering “passage” for hipsters and bike-riding bar crawlers. I’d have a boombox cranking Molly Hatchet or AC/DC or something. I’d charge three pieces of gold. Biking to/from Superior is currently ludicrous.
Baci, thats the coolest thing I’ve heard you say in a while, shit, it may be the most interesting thing I’ve read on PDD…Well, since Carlson and the Nazis anyway. Are the teenyboppers gyrating at Lester yet? More photos! More security! Hey, I’m all for making biking to Superior easier, but I’m also willing to go the distance to earn my beer. Inflatable bike waterwings?
Happymofoamgroan.
Thats a great idea, rafting my bike over. How much do cheap rafts weigh/cost?
When I die, I’d happily pay Baci his three coins to get me across the river Styxx.
Tim, I don’t know a lot, but this much I do know. When you die you won’t end up in Superior.
The Psychopomp is an important mythological/Jungian construct and the subject of a bad Chris De Burgh song.
…unless you’ve been very naughty.
Bullhorn naughty or selling bath salts naughty?