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Station: Newport, MI
Newport was settled about 1830 in northeast Monroe County. It was a sawmill location and later located along the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern, Michigan Central and Detroit & Toledo Shore Line railroads which passed through here.
The D&TSL served the Lee Lumber Company and had a sugar beet loader here, as well as a reverse point crossover here. This was just south of Swan Creek. [EFI]
Photo Info: Top, a 1919 railroad valuation photo of the Newport depot. [CMUL]. 2nd photo, the Michigan Central depot at Newport. Note the display box on the front of the depot. 3rd and 4th photos: The Lake Shore & Michigan Southern railroad depot at Newport. [Alan Loftis] 4th photo, a 1936 image of the depot with industry behind. [Berlin Twp. Historical Society].
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Time Line
1917, The MC had an agent-operator here around-the-clock. [TRT]
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