Station: Rosebush, MI

Rosebush was settled about 1884 six miles north of Mt. Pleasant in Isabella County. It was also known for a time by the names of Halfway and Calkinsville. It was changed to Rosebush in 1903.

The town was a station on the Ann Arbor railroad.

Photo Info: Top, the wood depot at Rosebush early in the 1900's. [CMUL] 2nd photo, the grain elevator along side of the Tuscola & Saginaw Bay railroad at Rosebush in 2005. [Dale Berry]

Notes

Time Line

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

1908. September 18. A "light" engine on the Ann Arbor road going north to pick up a work train was not stopped here as railroad men say it should have been, and went on north at high speed, meeting a southbound freight near Rosebush, head-on. Both engines were wrecked, the light engine the worst. The fireman was badly scaled but will live. The engineer was found unconscious under the ruins of the locomotive but was not badly hurt. The road is blocked. [PHTH-1908-0918]

1918. The AARR had a day station agent here. [TRT]