Station: North Star, MI

AA North Star Depot AARRNorthStarDepotPostcard[AlanLoftisColl].jpgNorth Star was settled around 1857. [MPN] It was a station stop on the Toledo, Ann Arbor & Northern (later Ann Arbor railroad) about half way between Ashley and Ithaca in Gratiot County.

Photo Info: Top, the Ann Arbor Railroad depot in North Star with a passenger train pulled up [CMUL]. 2nd photo, another view of the depot in a postcard view. [Alan Loftis Collection]


Notes


Time Line

1900. This is a telegraph station on the Ann Arbor railroad. [OG-1900]

1918. The Ann Arbor railroad had a day station agent here. [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

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