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Station: Merideth, MI
Merideth was settled as a lumber village about 1884 and at one time had a population of about 1,800 people serving the logging/forest industry.
Photo info: A 2004 view of the former PM depot in Merideth, now a general store. [Alan Loftis]
Notes
Time Line
1877. December 12. Herman Hansen was run over and killed Friday on the A. W. Wright Lumber company's logging railroad, near Meredith. He was employed as car repairer on the road, and fell from the train. [PHTH]
1886. The Roscommon Lumber Company's logging road from Houghton Lake is now connected with the Flint & Pere Marquette at Meredith. The first train passed over the road last week. Wells & Stone have completed a branch road of about two miles' length into their pine southeast of Meredith.
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