Station: Steuben, MI

US Mail Delivery in Steuben MISteuben was founded about 1860 by the Chicago Lumbering Company which operated sawmills in Manistique from 1860. They located a logging center here in 1872 on the Manistique & Lake Superior railroad. [MPN]

Photo Info: Top, this auto has been modified for rail U.S. Mail delivery on the Manistique & Lake Superior railroad. Mail pouches are being loaded into the back storage compartment. This photograph was taken in 1934 near Stuben, Michigan in Schoolcraft County. [Mark Worrall collection]


Notes


Time Line

1897. The Manistique & Northwestern railroad is built from the wharf at Manistique to Shingleton via Steuben, 34 miles. It becomes the M&LS in 1909. [MRL]

1968. The M&LS is abandoned. [MRL]

 

 

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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