Station: Sigma, MI

Sigma was settled about 1910 on the Manistee & Northeastern railroad Grayling branch line. It was about 10 miles southeast of Kalkaska in Kalkaska County.

Photo Info: Top, the M&NE depot at Sigma. The depot appears to be made of cinder block which was an unusual material for a depot in northern Michigan. [Alan Loftis collection]. 2nd image, a view of O'Lairy Logging Camp No. 2, east of Sigma in a postcard view. Note the water tower which is build on log cribbing.

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Time Line

1919. Desire to please killed Luther Lawrence, station agent on the M&NE according to the verdict of Coroner A.G. Burwell. Lawrence never permitted a patron, no matter at what time of the day or night, to be disappointed, and death claimed him soon after he had gotten up at daybreak to aid a patron to unload some freight. [MCH-1919-0214]