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Station: Vermontville, MI
Vermontville is a village in western Eaton County and was settled around 1835. It was incorporated as a village in 1871. [MPN]
Vermontville was on the Michigan Central's Grand Rapids Branch.
Photo info: Top, a railroad valuation photo of the Vermontville depot, around 1919. [CMUL]. 2nd photo, a postcard view of the MC station at Vermontville with a train standing nearby. [Alan Loftis Collection] 3rd photo, a 1910 photo of a MC passenger train which has stopped at Vermontville. Note the large grain elevator in town. [Mark Worrall Collection]
Notes
Time Line
1917. The MC had an operator-agent here on the day shift. [TRT]
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