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Michigan Central Depot

Calhoun County · dedicated 1989 · 44 N. McCamly Street, Battle Creek

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.

David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

Marker data: Michigan History Center

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