Station: Horton, MI (Jackson County)

Horton was settled in southwest Jackson County about 1832. A flour mill was built here in 1842 and the village patted in 1844. The town was called Baldwin Hills and Baldwin's but renamed Horton in 1874.

It was a station on the Fort Wayne & Jackson railroad line about four miles northeast of Hanover.

Photo Info: Top, an old photo of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern depot at Horton. [Alan Loftis collection]. 2nd photo, a 2003 view of the depot, now used as a party store. [Alan Loftis]

Notes

On 4/19/2024 Jesse Burkhardt writes: "The Fort Wayne route off the Elkhart line at Haires Junction was gone in the early 1960s, but there was still service from Hillsdale to Horton or Hanover from the south. I recall being in Hanover in 1960s and the tracks looked as if they still were in some kind of use. Someone there told me the train ran once every six weeks or so to bring some kind of drilling mud, or something like that, to a mining operation in the Hanover-Horton area."

Time Line

1882. Frank Dusenberry, a brakeman on the Fort Wayne & Jackson railroad, tried to get on the rear end of his train while it was backing, slipped and was run over and instantly killed at Horton about 7 o'clock this evening March 13. He made his home in Horton. [DFP-1882-0314]