- Founded
- 1931
- Coordinates
- 44.8342° N, 87.3763° WGoogle Maps: Roen Transportation CompanyDownload KML
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- maritimeshippingeconomyheritage
Summary
The Roen Transportation Company is named in the December 1970 obituary as one of the operations John Roen built after moving his shipping base to Sturgeon Bay in 1931.
Evidence and limits
The held source does not establish the company’s legal form, officers, fleet, formation document, or relationship to the Roen Steamship Company. This record therefore preserves the name and source-bounded context only.
Open questions
- What records document the company’s formation and operations?
- Was it a separate legal company from the Roen Steamship Company?
See also
Sources
- Charlevoix Courier, December 9, 1970, “Death Claims Captain: Roen Steamship Empire Was Launched in Charlevoix.”Names the Roen Transportation Company among the operations John Roen built after moving from Charlevoix to Sturgeon Bay in 1931. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.
- ArcGIS World Geocoding Service, city-level lookup for Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, retrieved 2026-08-06.Returned a city-level point at longitude -87.376269, latitude 44.834209. The held obituary places the company’s post-1931 operation in Sturgeon Bay but gives no office, dock, or facility address; this is a city locator.
Added 1 August 2026. Recent changes
Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Roen Transportation Company”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/organizations/roen-transportation-company/, accessed [date], citing Charlevoix Courier, December 9, 1970, “Death Claims Captain: Roen Steamship Empire Was Launched in Charlevoix.” (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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