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Station: Jennings, MI (Missaukee County)
Jennings was a lumber center in western Missaukee County, about five miles west of Lake City. It was founded about 1883. [MPN]. It was located at the end of a short branch line which left the Missaukee Branch at Round Lake Junction. The town was also known as Round Lake.
Image info: Top, a section crew shovels out the railroad crossing at Jennings in the early 1900's. [CMUL]. 2nd image, the saw mill and chemical works at Jennings.
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1924. In the Matter of the Application of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company for Authority to Discontinue Its Freight and Ticket Agency at Jennings, Michigan. D-1888. September 15, 1924.
Application having been made by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company for leave to discontinue its freight and ticket agency at Jennings, Missaukee County, Michigan, and to establish in lieu thereof a non-agency station ; and the same having been brought on to be heard and the testimony in relation thereto having been duly considered:
It is HEREBY ordered by the Michigan Public Utilities Commission, That said Pennsylvania Railroad Company be and it is hereby authorized to discontinue its freight and ticket agency at Jennings, Michigan, and to establish in lieu thereof a non-agency station.
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Industry
- Cadillac Chemical Co. - (xxxx ← 1947 → xxxx)
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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