Avery was settled in Berrien County as a sawmill community in 1854. It was also known as Avery Station and Avery's Mills. [MPN] The location was a station on the Michigan Central's main line west of Galien. It was the location of MC's Avery Track Plan, used to scoop up water on the run by locomotives.
1920. On the Michigan Central this is a pre-paid station with no agent. [MCOAS]
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