Station: Lenge, MI

Lengsville was a location on both the Detroit & Mackinac railroad and the Michigan Central railroad, 1.5 miles north of Linwood Park. According to [MPN] is was formed around a lumber mill around 1892.

Image info: This was the MC shanty at Lengsvville in a 1918 valuation photo. [CMUL]

Notes

This station was also known as Lengs. [PHO]

Time Line

1898. February 21. The snow plow driven by two engines that left ahead of the passenger train on the Detroit & Mackinac railroad this afternoon at 3:00 o'clock jumped the track at Lengsville, fourteen miles north of Bay City, and was ditched. Six persons were on board at the time, but no one was killed. James Bolen, roadmaster, had a leg and arm broken; his face smashed and his shoulder bruised; his condition is serious. Four others were badly injured, one man being burned by the stove falling on him. Two doctors and a druggist from East Tawas went to the scene of the wreck on a special locomotive and all injured men were taken to East Tawas. [DFP-1898-0222]