Station: Mount Morris, MI

Mount Morris was settled around 1833 in north central Genesee County. It was known as Genesee until 1857 and also as Mount Morris Station. The Flint & Pere Marquette railroad came through around 1857.  The town became a village in 1867 and a city in 1929. [MPN]

Photo info: Top, a postcard view of the Pere Marquette depot at Mt. Morris. 2nd, the interurban depot at Mt. Morris. [both, Alan Loftis collection]. 3rd, a photo of a smaller interurban depot in a postcard view.

Notes

Time Line

1868. New station. A new passenger and freight station house, 100x26' has been built. Improvements have also been made at this point in the banking grounds for lumber. Cost of the new station was $2,070. [F&PM-1868]

1872. January 21: On the F&PM railroad at Mt. Morris, a John Enhoff leaned out from the platform of the moving passenger coach he was riding on and his head struck a cattle chute. He died after five days. [MCR/72]