Station: Garden, MI

Garden is a village on the Garden Peninsula of Lake Michigan in Delta County. Garden was settled about 1850 by farmers. It was also known as Haley's Bay and Garden Bay. The town was incorporated as a village in 1886.

Garden was located on the Garden Bay Railway, which connected the town with the national railroad grid. The railway operated between Van Harbor (near Garden) northward to Cooks in Schoolcraft County where it connected with the Soo Line.

Left: The proposed route of the LS&I ore line from Rapid River, down the Garden peninsula in 1956. The project was never built.

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Around 1956, the Lake Superior & Ishpeming (LS&I) proposed a new ore dock facility opposite Gladstone on the Garden peninsula. The project was very controversial, and voted down by the Interstate Commerce Commission.

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