Station: Lowell, MI

GTW Train No. 19 at Lowell Lowell MI depot Lowell MI depotPM Bridge at Lowell MI Lowell was settled in 1831 with a trading post. In 1847 it was called Danville but the name was changed to Lowell in 1851. It became a village in 1861. [MPN]

Lowell was located on the Pere Marquette Elmdale to Saginaw branch, on the very east edge of Kent County. There was also a crossing just south of town of the Grand Trunk Western line which was called Malta interlocking tower.

Image Info: Top, Grand Trunk passenger train No. 19 picks up passengers at Lowell in 1937. [Florence Kuhn Collection]. 2nd image, a postcard view of the Pere Marquette depot at Lowell with a passenger train arriving. [Alan Loftis collection]. 3rd image, the same depot under Chesapeake & Ohio ownership in  1976. [Charles Geletzke Jr.]. 4th image, the Pere Marquette bridge over the Grand River at Lowell.


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Time Line

1905. The PM installed a new scale at Lowell. [PMAR-1905]

1917. The GTW had an agent here as well as operators around the clock. [TRT]

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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