Michigan Central Depot

Michigan Central Depot is a Michigan historical marker in Battle Creek, Calhoun County, dedicated 1989.

44 N. McCamly Street, Battle Creek

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The Michigan Central Railroad Depot opened on July 27, 1888. Rogers and MacFarlane of Detroit designed the depot, one of several Richardsonian Romanesque-style stations the Michigan Central built between Detroit and Chicago in the late nineteenth century. Thomas Edison as well as Presidents William Howard Taft and Gerald Ford visited here. The depot was acquired by the New York Central Railroad in 1918, Penn Central in 1968, and Amtrak in 1970. The depot was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.

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Historical maps covering this location

1873 · (Map of Barry County, 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)
1918 · Battle Creek, Michigan (USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection)

(Map of Barry County, Michigan), 1873, covering the location of Michigan Central Depot, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — (Map of Barry County, Michigan), 1873, covering this location. David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.

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