Station: Valentine Lake, MI

Valentine Lake is a medium sized lake which is west of M-33 highway, about eight miles north of Atlanta in Montmorency County. The area was first logged in 1894. [MPN]. The Conners Lumber Company was the predominant lumber company here. [LITF] The town was reportedly on the north side of the lake.

This was a station stop on the Alpena & Northern railroad and probably the last location for which someone could purchase a ticket on this line, though the line continued west into Otsego County. When the Detroit & Mackinac railroad took over the A&N and extended their line northwest to Onaway and Cheboygan, this line became a branch called the Valentine Lake Branch of the D&M.

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1900. A log train consisting of an engine and twelve cars left the rails on White's log road, on the Valentine division of the Alpena & Northern railroad, and ran into a ditch. The accident was caused by rails spreading. [DFP-1900-0220]

1902. August 30. John Kennedy, one of the best known woodsmen in this part of Michigan dropped dead in the hotel at Valentine Lake just after eating his dinner today. He was for many years superintendent for the late Albert Pack. He was 54 years old and unmarried. [DFP-1902-0831]

1903. September 5. The Valentine branch of the Detroit & Mackinac railroad is being take up and the material will be used in the extension of the road to Cheboygan.[DFP-1903-0905]