Station: Onekama, MI

Onekama was founded in 1845 with a mill located here at the east end of Portage Lake. The town was called Portage until 1871 when it was renamed. It was a station at the end of a Pere Marquette branch line. It became a village in 1891. [MPN]


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Time Line

1889. The Onekama Lumber Company and the Manistee & Northeastern railroad company are having quite a disagreement over the amount of land which the lumber company ought to give the railroad to complete its depot arrangements at Onekama. Thge lumber company will find, as a matter of course, that the railroad will want the whole earth. [DFP-1889-0128]


Industry

  • Onekama Lumber Company

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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