Station: Curran, MI

Curran was a lumber town in northern Alcona County on the AuSable & Northwestern railroad. Philip Curan built a lumber camp here about 1875. The village began about 1886. The Loud & Sons Lumber Company built a narrow gauge railroad through the area in 1890. [MPN]

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1919. The D&M builds an 8,730 foot Peppel Spur for the S. H. C. Company, two miles west of Curran. The railroad removes a 480' spur one mile east of Hardy, and the 6,600 foot Sugar Bush Spur 1 1/2 miles west of Curran. They also build smaller spurs for the same company two miles west of Russell, and four miles east of Bryant. [DMAR-1920]