Detroit, Grand Haven and Milwaukee Railway
The Detroit, Grand Haven and Milwaukee Railway is a defunct railroad which operated in the
The DGH&M was formed from the ruin of Detroit and Milwaukee Railroad, a successor road to the Detroit and Pontiac Railroad, one of the first roads organized in the state of Michigan. The Great Western Railway, a Canadian company, had taken financial control of the D&M in 1860 after it defaulted on debt payments. The D&M entered receivership in 1875; in 1878 Great Western purchased it outright and refinanced the debts. The reorganized company bore the name Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwaukee Railway.[1] Its Grand Rapids, Michigan station was located at the corner of Plainfield and East Leonard.[2]
The new company possessed a 189-mile (304 km) line stretching from Detroit in the southeast to Grand Haven on the eastern shore of Lake Michigan.[3][4] By 1882 the road came under the ownership of the Grand Trunk Railway of Canada when the Grand Trunk acquired the Great Western, but it was not formally consolidated until 1928.[5]
References
- ^ Farmer, Silas (1884). The History of Detroit and Michigan. S. Farmer & co. p. 895.
- ^ Baxter, Albert (1891). History of the City of Grand Rapids, Michigan. Munsell & company. pp. 528–529.
- ^ Michigan Railroad Commission (1879). Annual Report. p. 183.
- ^ Galbraith's railway mail service maps, Michigan. Publ. Chicago 1897, c1898. Library of Congress. Accessed April 2020.
- OCLC 2837267.