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Station: Meridian, MI
Meridian was settled about 1841 as Red Ridge. It was renamed Meridian in 1871. It was eight miles east of Lansing in Ingham County. Meridian was a tollgate location on the Detroit, Howell & Lansing Plank Road. It also became a station on the Pere Marquette main line between Detroit and Grand Rapids via Lansing.
Photo info: The PM depot at Meridian. [Alan Loftis collection]
Notes
Time Line
1879. A new station was built here by the DL&N. [DL&N-1879]
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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