Vestaburg was settled about 1860 in northeast Montcalm County. [MPN] The town was located on the Pere Marquette railroad about eight miles east of Edmore.
Image Info: Top, a dray awaits the arrival of a passenger train at Vestaburg. [David McNeill collection]. 2nd image, the PM depot at Vestaburg. [Alan Loftis collection]. 3rd image, the depot with a train loading in front. [UML]. 4th image, another early view of the depot. [Gordon Bean collection]. 5th image, an approaching train at Vestaburg. The depot is near the train on the left. Note the large pile of fieldstones that have been collected from area farms. Perhaps they envision building a new stone depot some day. [Gordon Bean collection]. 6th image, the same depot in disrepair in 2003. [Alan Loftis]
1879. May 27. W.C. Stone's saw mill burns down. It is along the Detroit, Saginaw & Canada railroad line. [PHTH-1879-0527]
1880. May 18. The saw mill and shingle mill of M. G. Pratt burned at Vestaburg. Value $4,000. [DFP-1880-0519]
1881. July 29. Another fire at Vestaburg burns 7,000,000 shingles and 250,000 feet of lumber, as well as all of the station buildings of the DS&C. [TTN-1881-0729]
1894. December. As Agent Gilluli emerged from the depot with some express money just before a passenger train arrived, he was struck on the head with a club by some unknown person. The assailant secured his watch and $100 and left Gilluli under the platform, supposedly dead. He is still alive. [BSE-1895-0102]
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