Station: Burt, MI

Burt was settled about 1889 as a station on the Cincinnati, Saginaw & Mackinaw (later GTW) railroad, near the Genesee County line, about 15 miles south of downtown Saginaw. [MPN]

Image info: The depot at Burt on the GTW with the elevator in the background. [CMUL]

Notes 

Also known as Taymouth Station.

The town was named after Wellington R. Burt, the founder of the TS&M railroad which came through here. [DFP-1919-0316]

Time Line

1891. August 10. Sheriff Thomas Bradley, of Traverse City, left a prisoner named James Roach, whom he was taking to Ionia to serve a 3-year sentence at Saginaw police headquarters for safe keeping while he took in the grand parade at Detroit on Tuesday. He returned for his man Friday morning and departed on the CS&M train at 8 a.m. with his prisoner in hand cuffs, sitting beside him. As the train neared Burt station, the sheriff fell into a quiet snooze and Roach took French leave, jumped off the train as it slacked up and disappeared into the adjacent woods. [WEX-1891-0814]

1918. The Grand Trunk had an agent here during the day. [TRT]

1926. November. The GT asks permission to abandon agency service at Burt on the CS&M. A hearing will be held on December 17.

1930. June 4. The Michigan Public Utilities Commission allows the GTW to change the station at Burt from an agency station to a pre-paid station, with the following provisions - the station must be maintained in a sanitary, clean condition, heated and lighted for patrons during hours when passenger trains stop; maintain a telephone at the station so that patrons can call the operator at Montrose for assistance, and have a caretaker to make sure that freight is properly handled and delivered to consignees. [MPUC-1930]