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Station: Hersey, MI
Hersey was settled about 1851 and became a station on the Flint & Pere Marquette railroad when it came through here. The town became a village in 1875. [MN]
Hersey was on the PM's Saginaw to Ludington main line about three miles east of Reed City.
Top, an early view of a PM passenger train arriving at Hersey. [CMUL]
Notes
Time Line
1905. The PM builds a 60' girder bridge on concrete abutments to replace a bridge with one hundred foot through truss and 14' trestle approaches. [PMAR-1905]
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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