Station: Chicagon, MI

Chicagon, also known as Chicagon Lake, was a mining settlement between Crystal Falls and Iron River. The Chicagon Mine was located here.

Notes

The country between Fortune and Chicogon Lake was found to be a very difficult one for the Milwaukee road and work on that piece was probably the hardest that will be encountered between Crystal Falls and Iron River. The country is badly broken and hills are very steep. It was found that the waters of Chicagon Lake are 60 feet higher than those of Fortune Lake and this rise is a distance of about 1¼ miles. [DD-1907-0302]

Time Line

1910. October. Several prominent iron ore men and mine managers had a narrow escape from death in an automobile accident near Chicagon creek last night. Officials of the M.A. Hanna company started from Iron River for Crystal Falls in an Iron county garage car. As they were descending Chicagon hill the car plunged into a big hole that the contractors for the C&NW railroad company had left in the road. Some jumped, others were thrown out. One victim was unable to move a limb. [DD-1910-1008]

1918. MILW had a station tower leverman here on the day shift. [TRT] It is assumed that the MILW had a crossing with the C&NW here, or this was a crossing within the mine,