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Station: Dimondale, MI
Dimondale is a town southwest of Lansing in Eaton County. It was founded in 1840 with a sawmill on the Grand River here. It was incorporated as a village in 1906. [MPN] The Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Lansing branch came through here in 1873 and the location was named Dimondale.
Photo info: Top and 2nd, two 1873 photographs of the Lake Shore's depot at Dimondale. [Michael Frezell Collection]
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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
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