Station: Lake Roland, MI

Lake Roland was a station on the Copper Range railroad in Houghton County, 7 miles southwest of Toilova at milepost 16.6. This station was originally known as Stackpole, then changed in 1910 to Faleston in honor of C. S. Fales, superintendent of the COPR who built a summer home in the area on 640 acres that he owned.

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1900. January. Construction is started on the COPR station at Lake Rowland. [CRR]

1929. January 28. Ten members of the Michigan College of Mines and Technology basketball team were freed Sunday night from the 8-foot drifts which had imprisoned them at Lake Roland since Thursday. Two snowplows of the Copper Range railroad, after being stalled numberless (sic) times, won through to the marooned players and carried them here (to Houghton). Had rescue been delayed a day longer it was learned, the situation of the players and the few residents of Lake Roland might have become perilous. Members of the team went on half rations Sunday when stock of the Lake Roland general store was depleted. The team was returning from a game at Ontonagon Thursday when the train on which it was traveling was stalled in the drifts which followed the worst blizzard of the year. [LSJ-1929-0128]