Station: Vestaburg, MI

Vestaburg was settled about 1860 in northeast Montcalm County. [MPN] The town was located on the Pere Marquette railroad about eight miles east of Edmore.

Image Info: Top, a dray awaits the arrival of a passenger train at Vestaburg. [David McNeill collection]. 2nd image, the PM depot at Vestaburg. [Alan Loftis collection]. 3rd photo, another early view of the depot. [Gordon Bean collection]. 4th photo, an approaching train at Vestaburg. The depot is near the train on the left. Note the large pile of fieldstones that have been collected from area farms. Perhaps they envision building a new stone depot some day. [Gordon Bean collection]. 5th photo, the same depot in disrepair in 2003. [Alan Loftis]

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Time Line 

1879. May 27. W.C. Stone's saw mill burns down. It is along the Detroit, Saginaw & Canada railroad line. [PHTH-1879-0527]

1880. May 18. The saw mill and shingle mill of M. G. Pratt burned at Vestaburg. Value $4,000. [DFP-1880-0519]

1881. July 29. Another fire at Vestaburg burns 7,000,000 shingles and 250,000 feet of lumber, as well as all of the station buildings of the DS&C. [TTN-1881-0729]