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Station: Portage, MI
Portage was a station on the LSMS/NYC Grand Rapids Branch about three miles south of Kalamazoo. The LSMS/NYC had a 54 car passing track here in 1915. The first white settlers arrived here in 1830. [MPN]
Image info: Top, the railroad depot at Portage about 1875, just eight years after the railroad was built.
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Bibliography
The following sources are utilized in this website. [SOURCE-YEAR-MMDD-PG]:
- [AAB| = All Aboard!, by Willis Dunbar, Eerdmans Publishing, Grand Rapids ©1969.
- [AAN] = Alpena Argus newspaper.
- [AARQJ] = American Association of Railroads Quiz Jr. pamphlet. © 1956
- [AATHA] = Ann Arbor Railroad Technical and Historical Association newsletter "The Double A"
- [AB] = Information provided at Michigan History Conference from Andrew Bailey, Port Huron, MI
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