Marysville
Marysville Elevator Exchange (MEE) was a grain elevator located in Marysville. In 1949 it had a storage capacity of 400,000 bushels of grain and 20,000 bags of beans (according to information given in a legal complaint against the PH&D, GTW, C&O and other railroads over rates).
MEE was located in the Dow complex on the south side of Marysville. The silos from the elevator still stand today although the site belongs to a trucking company. The elevator was located about 0.6 miles north of the switch into the Dow Complex, which was about 7.1 miles south of Port Huron.
Original ownership of the elevator is unclear – the rate complaint from 1949 indicates that the elevator existed prior to acquisition by MEE, however the entire complex was built in 1942 to supply magnesium for WWII. Sanborn maps from around 1950 show the elevator in place, with two loading tracks – one track on the north side and one on the south side of the silos.
Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division, Sanborn Maps Collection
The elevator was owned by Michigan Elevator Exchange, which was part of Farm Bureau. Farm Bureau became Agra Land in 1983, then in 1985 Mid-States Terminals picked up the MEE brand (the State of Michigan’s corporate records show that Mid-States used the MEE brand from 1986 until 1993). In 1986, the elevator became a Country Mark property and in 1991 the property was sold to a trucking company.
Currently, the only MEE outbound shipping records we have are between the 1973 and 1981, and primarily via covered hoppers supplied by Grand Trunk Western.