Local History

A station on the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad, in Breen Township.  Named by its principal proprietors, the Menominee Hardwood & Shingle Company, in 1884.  Company manager James H. Walton became its first postmaster on July 23, 1891.  It was in Menominee County until Dickinson was organized in 1891, its post office being transferred on October 1, 1891. 

Informational excerpts from Michigan Place Names, by Walter Romig, L.H.D.

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