Onekama was founded in 1845 with a mill located here at the east end of Portage Lake. The town was called Portage until 1871 when it was renamed. It was a station at the end of a Pere Marquette branch line. It became a village in 1891. [MPN]
Image info: Top, the wooden depot at Onekama in 1917. Note the M&NE locomotive with a one-car passenger train. A box car is also parked year by. [UML]
1889. The Onekama Lumber Company and the Manistee & Northeastern railroad company are having quite a disagreement over the amount of land which the lumber company ought to give the railroad to complete its depot arrangements at Onekama. Thge lumber company will find, as a matter of course, that the railroad will want the whole earth. [DFP-1889-0128]
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