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View of a portion of Metropolitan's business district in Felch Township

Dickinson County Library

Railroad stations

Felch (Mich.)

AF01a052

Item also published with caption in: Dickinson County, Michigan : from earliest times through the Twenties / compiled and edited by William John Cummings. Iron Mountain, Mich. : Dickinson County Board of Commissioners, 1991. 432 p. : ill, maps, ports. ; 3

Photograph, taken in 1902, of a portion of Metropolitan's business district. Businesses (right to left) include the Chicago & North-Western Railway Depot, the Western Union office, an ice house and a store building in which the post office was located. Notice the elevated board sidewalk used to facilitate loading and unloading supplies from railroad cars, an the early handcar in the foreground. ""Metropolitan"" is printed on the photograph.