On February 11, 1928, several members of management and staff of the Lower Lock Dock Company met for a dinner at the Hotel
Rieger in Sandusky. The celebratory dinner was held in honor of the crews who
staffed Heyl and Patterson dumpers at the Lower Lake Docks in Sandusky.
On
May 6 and 7, 1927, 1254 coal cars of the Pennsylvania Railroad were unloaded,
resulting in 73,987 tons of coal being dumped. This feat broke all previous unloading records at the dock.
The invited guests were treated to a dinner of steak and baked potatoes with all the trimmings. |
At that time, C.H. Hampe was
the superintendent of the company. He would go on to have a career
that spanned over fifty years of dock service, having worked in Ashtabula and
Sandusky. In 1950, officials of the Lower Lake Dock Company and the
Pennsylvania Railroad honored Mr. Hampe with a celebration of his fifty years
of service by hosting a party in his honor at the Odd Fellows Hall.
Now the
company formerly known as the Lower Lake Dock Company is owned by
Norfolk Southern and is operated by the Sandusky Dock Corporation. This firm
still uses equipment made by Heyl and Patterson. To see more pictures of the coal docks, see a previous post at Sandusky History’s website.
1 comment:
Thank you for posting this interesting piece on the Lower Lake Dock Company. My Grandpa Keller's brother was W. W. Keller, who's listed at the top of the right hand column of guests in the second photo. Worthy Keller listed Sta. Engineer as his occupation on his WWI Draft Registration card in 1918.
Linda Keller
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