Station: Benzonia, MI

Benzonia was founded in 1858 as a proposed Christian college in the woodland wilderness. It was incorporated as a village in 1891. [MPN]  The town's location near the east end of Crystal Lake, was situated on the Ann Arbor railroad, about 8 miles east of Frankfort and Elberta. The AARR touched Benzonia but station facilities appear to be in Beulah and Benzonia is not listed on the railroad's timetable in 1936.

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1902. January 23. A communication was received by the Michigan Railroad Commission from Mr. M. S. Gregory of Benzonia, making a complaint against the Ann Arbor Railroad Company on account of its refusal to sell him a family mileage book, good for use of himself and family. The commission called the attention to the complainant that by a recent decision of the supreme court of the United States in the case of Henry C. Smith vs. the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway Company, the law of this State requiring a railroad company to sell family mileage books had been declared unconstitutional. [MRC-1902]