Station: Steuben, MI

Steuben 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]

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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]