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Station: Avery, MI
Avery was settled in Berrien County as a sawmill community in 1854. It was also known as Avery Station and Avery's Mills. [MPN] The location was a station on the Michigan Central's main line west of Galien. It was the location of MC's Avery Track Plan, used to scoop up water on the run by locomotives.
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Time Line
1920. On the Michigan Central this is a pre-paid station with no agent. [MCOAS]
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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