Time Mine - 1841

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• STATISTIC: Miles of railroads in operations in Michigan this year: 138. [MRC/72]

• July 4: Central line reaches Dexter from Ann Arbor. [MHS] [MCR-75] dates this as June 30, 1841.

• September: Central line reaches Chelsea. [DWS]

• Autumn: The Detroit & Milwaukee extends their line from Royal Oak to Birmingham. [MCR-75]  Also listed in 1838 by other sources.

• December 29: The Central road reaches Jackson from Chelsea. [MCR-75/MDOT/AAD]

• Julius Eldred leads a well-publicized campaign to remove "the Ontonagon (copper) boulder" from the Ontonagon River and display it in Detroit. It was subsequently moved to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. [BOM] 

Time line Key:

• Railroad event in Michigan
• Event relating to mining
• Event related to car ferries
• Event outside of Michigan
• Improvement in Technology
• Railroad built or extended
• Railroad abandoned and/or removed
• Economic panic or depression