Parchment, MI was a small town north of Kalamazoo, which was established in 1909 when the Kalamazoo Vegetable Parchment company established a paper mill here. It was incorporated as a village in 1931 and a city in 1938. [MPN]
The CK&S railroad came through here about 1889 and an electric interurban line crossed it on a trestle in the early 1900's.
Image info: Top, a view of the electric interurban line crossing over the CK&S, shortly after it was built.
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