Interurban Depot

Interurban Depot is a Michigan historical marker in Coopersville, Ottawa County, dedicated 1998.

363 West Main St, Coopersville

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This depot and substation served the Grand Rapids, Grand Haven and Muskegon Railway, an electric interurban railroad that operated from 1902 to 1928. A third rail in the country and an overhead wire in cities supplied the train’s power. Frequent runs made travel possible between cities and outlying communities. The rising popularity of automobiles resulted in the decline of interurbans. The depot is listed in the National Register of Historic Places.

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

Historical maps covering this location

1874 · Colton's Michigan (1874) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1897 · Southern Michigan. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1907 · Map of the original swamp areas of the lower peninsula of Michigan. : 1907. Compiled from… (University of Michigan Library)
1911 · Map of the surface formations of the Southern Peninsula of Michigan (Digital Commonwealth, Boston Public Library)
[Road map of southwestern Michigan, Grand Haven and Grand Rapids to Benton Harbor and… (University of Chicago Library, Mapping Chicagoland · CC BY-NC 4.0, used by permission)

Southern Michigan, 1897, covering the location of Interurban Depot, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — Southern Michigan, 1897, covering this location. David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.

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Interurban Depot

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