Whatever happened to … the Hulett unloaders?
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Posted by V. David Sartin | Cleveland Metro News
Q. Will the giant Hulett ore unloaders — seen by some as the symbol of Cleveland’s 20th century industrial might — ever be rebuilt and on display?
The Huletts have been sitting in pieces amid scrub brush at the west end of Whiskey Island since 2000 with little hope of being rebuilt soon.
Preservationists want to display two of the old Huletts near the lake freighter William Mather next to the Great Lakes Science Museum. Some estimates say that could cost as much as $6 million.
The Cleveland-Cuyahoga County Port Authority probably wants the Huletts to go away. Permanently. But, port authority officials are not talking publicly about their proposals. They did not respond to repeated requests for an update of their proposal.
Invented by George H. Hulett in 1898, the shovel contraptions could scrape up 17 tons of ore or other material in one gulp while offloading freighters at Great Lakes ports.
Read about the history, demise and future plans of the Huletts at the Cleveland Metro News >>
