Ann Arbor Railroad

Ann Arbor Railroad is a Michigan historical marker in Howell, Livingston County, dedicated 1971.

126 Wetmore Street, Howell

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Howell raised twenty thousand dollars in 1885 to induce the Toledo, Ann Arbor and Northern Michigan to enter town. Many believed the town, already served by one railroad, would boom with a second line. Early in 1886 a right-of-way dispute erupted in an armed brawl between workmen of the two lines. The case was mediated in favor of the TAA&NM, and in the summer of 1886 this depot was built. The line was renamed the Ann Arbor Railroad in 1895.

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Historical maps covering this location

1873 · Michigan. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1874 · Colton's Michigan (1874) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1888 · Political map of Michigan 1888 (Digital Commonwealth, Boston Public Library)
1897 · Southern Michigan. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1907 · Howell, Michigan (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)

Southern Michigan, 1897, covering the location of Ann Arbor Railroad, 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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Ann Arbor Railway Station70 ft

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