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Station: Lucas, MI
Lucas was founded about 1878 in Missaukee County. {MPN] It was located on the Ann Arbor railroad in the southwest corner of the county, about four miles west of McBain.
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1900. This is a telegraph station on the Ann Arbor railroad. [OG-1900]
1902. A petition was received from a number of citizens of the village of Lucas, asking that the Ann Arbor Railroad Company be required to maintain an agent and operator at that station. While there does not appear to be any specific provision of law authorizing orders of this nature, the matter was taken up with the railroad company, and a statement was received that the company had provided a suitable building for sheltering passengers and baggage and for any small freight that might be offered. Also, that it had constructed and given free use of a telephone line connecting the company's office at Cadillac, which would appear to be satisfactory service. [MCR-1903]
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