Station: Tallman, MI

Tallman was a small station on the PM Manistee Branch, about three miles north of Walhalla in Mason County.

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In 1881, Tallman is described as a village of 500 inhabitants laid out by R.G. Peters and Horace Butters of the firm H. Butters & Company, two years ago. The firm has a large steam saw and shingle mill, with a daily cutting capacity of 70,000 feet of lumber and 300,000 shingles and is operated the entire year with the exception of some two weeks required to make repairs. The firm has a large tract of pine adjacent to their mill which is located on a beautiful lake, into which the logs are put, affording inexhaustible booming facilities. The manufactured stock is shipped by rail to Ludington and then by water to Chicago. Completion of the new railroad to Manistee where the members of the firm have large mills and docking facilities. [DFP-1881-1214]

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