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A gin pole in use loading logs A gin pole used to install a weather vane atop the 200-foot steeple of a church Roof trusses being assembled with gin poles. A gin pole is a mast supported by one or more guy-wires that uses a pulley or block and tackle mounted on its upper end to lift loads. The lower end is braced or set in a shallow hole and ...
The Bingham Company Warehouse is a historic warehouse located in Cleveland, Ohio, in the United States. It was designed by the noted local firm of Walker and Weeks for the W. Bingham Company , and is one of the architectural firm's few utilitarian commercial buildings.
A derrick is a lifting device composed at minimum of one guyed mast, as in a gin pole, which may be articulated over a load by adjusting its guys. Most derricks have at least two components, either a guyed mast or self-supporting tower, and a boom hinged at its base to provide articulation, as in a stiffleg derrick. The most basic type of ...
H.G. Cleveland: August 1899 A three-mast schooner carrying stone that sprung a leak and sunk four miles (6.4 km) off of Lorain. Rescued by City of Detroit and the tugboat Thomas Matham, everyone survived. Hickory Stick: 29 November 1958 The derrick barge broke apart and sank in a storm.
The Whiskey Island mine is a salt mine in downtown Cleveland, Ohio owned by Cargill Deicing Technology. It is one of the largest salt mines in the world [1] and one of two in the Cleveland area, the other being Morton Salt's Fairport Harbor mine to the east. [2] It is also one of three mines in the United States owned by Cargill. [3]
The Great Lakes Group (GLG) is an American full-service marine-related transportation company headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio.The Great Lakes Group is the parent Company to The Great Lakes Towing Company, Great Lakes Shipyard, Tugz International L.L.C., Puerto Rico Towing & Barge Co., Soo Linehandling Services, Admiral Towing and Barge Company, and Wind Logistics, Inc. [1]
Rockefeller Building in 1913. The Rockefeller name has been prominently displayed on the West 6th side of the building since 1905, except for a brief period when fellow Cleveland businessman Josiah Kirby (responsible for starting the gigantic Cleveland Discount Company mortgage firm in 1921 in Cleveland) bought the skyscraper from the Rockefellers in 1920 and subsequently changed the facade to ...
But from 1945 to 1970, the Cleveland area shed most of is heavy industry, and the loss of industrial jobs hit the North Broadway neighborhood particularly hard. [94] Cleveland also suffered significantly from a strong trend toward suburbanization, [94] and by 1970 the Broadway district had lost 36 percent of its population. [93]