Station: Millersburg, MI

Millersburg was founded in 1897 and a sawmill was located here in 1899. The town was incorporated as a village in 1901.

Millersburg is located in west central Presque Isle County about seven miles east of Onaway. This depot was reportedly built as a new station in fall, 1916. [MCR/1916 p47]

Photo Info: Top, this is the first depot at Millersburg, built by the D&M as they built northwest from LaRoque to Cheboygan via Onaway,. It was replaced by a block depot around 1916. [CMUL] 2nd photo, an early view of the old D&M depot at Millersburg. Note the freight cart on the side of the depot and the stairs leading up to the freight door at the left. A ladder was used by the operator/agent to add oil to the train order signal which protruded from the room on a pole. The signal was likely controlled by the pipe through the room. Ladders for this purpose were common on early D&M depots. [Alan Loftis collection]. 3rd photo, two workers load lumber into a wooden gondola in this winter scene. The Millersburg depot is in the distant right of this photo. The railroad car appears to e taken on the "team" track in the village about 1920. 4th and 5th photos, a 2004 view of the former D&M depot. [T.J. Gaffney]. 6th photo taken in 2006. [Marcia Simmons]. 7th photo in 2006. [Dale Berry] 8th photo map, a 1905 map of Millersburg and neighboring Providence.

Notes

The town of Providence was platted just west of Millersburg as can be noted in the 1905 map below.

Time Line

1900. The railroad bridge on the D&M over the Ocqueoc river at Millersburg burned and trains cannot run to Onaway. In town, the fire was controlled by aid of a fire engine sent from Alpena. [LSJ-1900-0516]

1911. July. The Gardner Peterson mill and 31 houses are destroyed by a major forest fire. [LSJ-1911-0712]

1911. Circuit Judge Emerick fined the D&M railway company and the Lobdell & Churchill Co., of Onaway, $100 for contempt of court. They violated an injunction by removing rails on a logging switch to Millersburg. This was the Tubbs branch. [BBAN-1911-0921]

1916. The railroad builds a new cement block station here. [MCR-1916] It replaced a station which was partially burned by fire.

1927. The D&M had a daytime operator at the Millersburg depot. There was one passenger train in each direction, daily except Sunday. [ETT-1927]