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Title
Gladstone - Marquette Railroad
Institution
Peter White Public Library

Subject
Railroads

Subject
Railroad Stations

Subject
Rapid River (Mich.)

Item Number
AB01a328

Type
text

Description
Talking of railroads, an old timer suggests that there is nowhere a better route from the iron mines of Marquette county to Lake Michigan that down the Rapid River Valley. The plan is not a new one. The C&NW surveyed the route in 1862.

Gladstone - Marquette Railroad

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