Station: Mears, MI

PM Mears DepotMears was settled by Charles Mears, a mill owner, about 1873. [MPN] This was a junction point on the Chicago & West Michigan's Pentwater Branch where the short branch to Hart went off to the east.

Photo Info: The Pere Marquette depot at Mears in the early 1900's. [Stoner Collection University of Michigan Bentley Library]


Notes


Time Line

1902. A new station at Mears replaces the one destroyed by fire. [MCR-1902]

1931. The MPUC grants the PM permission to change Mears station from an agency station to a  non-agency station. 

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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