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Location: Geddes, MI - Concrete Supply Company, MI
Concrete Supply Company was a location on the MC Main Line west of Ypsilanti between the Shanghai Pit and Geddes Road. The location is noted in a 1912 MC station listing with a station number as #259 1/2.
Notes
This was the location of the Cadillac Sand & Gravel Company (Ohio-based) which shipped gravel from here to a location on the Grand Trunk railroad south of 8 Mile Road (at what later became the State Fair Grounds. The aggregate was used for the construction of roads and other uses. The MC refered to this location in their list as "Concrete Supply Company".
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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