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- Hits: 1944
Location: Birch, MI
Birch was a station on the Big Bay Branch of the Lake Superior & Ishpeming railroad, located about ten miles southeast of Big Bay in Marquette County.
Notes
Time Line
Lumbering
Northern Lumber Co. (of Marquette) (xxxx ← 1906 → xxxx). Has begun shipments of forest products from its yards at Birch. An average of two cars a day, consisting of telegraph poles and hemlock bard, are being shipped. [AML-1/6/1906]
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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