Location: Parchment, MI - CK&S - MUR Overhead Crossing

CK&S and MUR crossing near Parchment Parchment, MI was a small town north of Kalamazoo, which was established in 1909 when the Kalamazoo Vegetable Parchment company established a paper mill here. It was incorporated as a village in 1931 and a city in 1938. [MPN]

The CK&S railroad came through here about 1889 and an electric interurban line crossed it on a trestle in the early 1900's.

Image info: Top, a view of the electric interurban line crossing over the CK&S, shortly after it 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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