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Station: Mears, MI
Mears was settled by Charles Mears, a mill owner, about 1873. [MPN] This was a junction point on the Chicago & West Michigan's Pentwater Branch where the short branch to Hart went off to the east.
Photo Info: The Pere Marquette depot at Mears in the early 1900's. [Stoner Collection University of Michigan Bentley Library]
Notes
Time Line
1902. A new station at Mears replaces the one destroyed by fire. [MCR-1902]
1931. The MPUC grants the PM permission to change Mears station from an agency station to a non-agency station.
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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