Camden is a small village in southwest Hillsdale County about three miles north of the Ohio border, near Indiana. Though Camden was never on a railroad line, it came close.
The Mansfield, Coldwater and Northwestern - a Pennsylvania railroad project - selected their route coming through Camden in a northwest direction. The company built some of their line near Allegan, and other parts in Ohio. The line in the middle (in Michigan) was mostly graded but iron was never laid.
It must have been discouraging for the town folk in Camden to see the grading with optimism and then watch the line go into foreclosure, their dreams slipping away.
On Google Maps, the railroad grade can still be located in a tree line.
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