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The Paw Paw Railroad is a defunct railroad which operated in Van Buren County, Michigan, between 1857 and 1887. At a length of 4 miles (6.4 km), it was the shortest operating common carrier railroad in the state. [ 1 ]
The Michigan Stove: State Fairgrounds, near Woodward Avenue Detroit: June 18, 1998: Michigan's First Capitol / Capitol Union School Informational Site Griswold and State streets Detroit: August 23, 1956: Michigan's First Lasting Newspaper: West Jefferson between Griswold and Shelby Detroit: August 23, 1956: Michigan's First Seat of Government ...
The Iron Range & Huron Bay Railroad (IR&HB) is a defunct railroad constructed to haul iron ore in Michigan's Upper Peninsula during the 1890s. Financial and engineering problems prevented the railroad's operation; it remains an unusual example of a railroad which was completed but never used.
Michigan Central Railroad [74] Harbor Beach Bike-Pedestrian Path 1 1.6 Huron: Pere Marquette Railway [75] Linear Park Pathway 2.3 3.7 Lapeer: Michigan Central Railroad [76] Pere Marquette Rail Trail: 30 48 Clare, Isabella, Midland: Flint and Pere Marquette Railroad [77] [78] Portland Riverwalk: 9 14 Ionia: Ionia and Lansing Railroad [79 ...
Michigan Central Railroad; Michigan Interstate Railway; Michigan Lake Shore Railroad; Michigan Northern Railway; Michigan and Ohio Railroad; Michigan Southern Railroad (1846–55) Michigan Southern and Northern Indiana Railroad; Michigan Southern Railroad (1846–1855) Michigan United Railways; Milwaukee Road; Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sault ...
The Pere Marquette Rail-Trail (PMRT) is a rail trail in Michigan occupying a 28-mile (45 km) abandoned CSX railroad corridor in Midland County and Isabella County that was once part of the Flint and Pere Marquette Railroad. In 1874, the tracks stretched from Ludington to Flint, transporting supplies to the timber industry in southern Michigan's ...
Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) will spend $400 million to build a 3.8 million-square-foot distribution center on 70 acres of the former Michigan State Fairgrounds in Detroit, city officials said ...
The Michigan railroad network, c. 1876. Railroads have been vital in the history of the population and trade of rough and finished goods in the state of Michigan.While some coastal settlements had previously existed, the population, commercial, and industrial growth of the state further bloomed with the establishment of the railroad.