Time Line - 1844

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• June 25: The Central road reaches Albion from Jackson. [MCR-75]

• August 12: The Central line reaches Marshall from Albion. [MCR-75/AAD]

• Autumn: The Detroit & Milwaukee extends their road from Birmingham to Pontiac. [MCR-75]. Dated by other sources as July 4, 1843.

• The Palmyra & Jacksonburg Railroad sells their road from Palmyra to Tecumseh to the State of Michigan. The state united it with the southern road, calling it the Tecumseh branch. [LS]

• Samuel Morse invents the working electric telegraph wire. [WSJ-2025-0928]

• The Central line's extension from the depot at Michigan and Woodward to the river wharf is abandoned due to little use. [HWC]

• Wells and Company establishes a freight express office in Marshall, one of the first such offices in Michigan. [AAD]

• William Austin Burt discovers iron ore at Negaunee, MI. [IOHT] 

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