Station: Newport, MI

MC Newport Depot MC Newport Depot LSMS Newport MI Depot LSMS Newport MI DepotNewport was settled about 1830 in northeast Monroe County. It was a sawmill location and later located along the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern, Michigan Central and Detroit & Toledo Shore Line railroads which passed through here.

The D&TSL served the Lee Lumber Company and had a sugar beet loader here, as well as a reverse point crossover here. This was just south of Swan Creek. [EFI]

Photo Info: Top, a 1919 railroad valuation photo of the Newport depot. [CMUL]. 2nd photo, the Michigan Central depot at Newport. Note the display box on the front of the depot. 3rd and 4th photos: The Lake Shore & Michigan Southern railroad depot at Newport. [Alan Loftis]


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Time Line

1917, The MC had an agent-operator here around-the-clock. [TRT]

Bibliography

The following sources are utilized in this website. [SOURCE-YEAR-MMDD-PG]:

  • [AAB| = All Aboard!, by Willis Dunbar, Eerdmans Publishing, Grand Rapids ©1969.
  • [AAN] = Alpena Argus newspaper.
  • [AARQJ] = American Association of Railroads Quiz Jr. pamphlet. © 1956
  • [AATHA] = Ann Arbor Railroad Technical and Historical Association newsletter "The Double A"
  • [AB] = Information provided at Michigan History Conference from Andrew Bailey, Port Huron, MI

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