Photo created by: Brett R. Schutzman
http://www.flickr.com/people/maproomsystems/
The station is closed, as you can see by this picture but I thought it was a pretty one. Here's a small history...
Long before the depot, there was the River: Native Americans congregate where the Great Sauk Trail crosses the River in what is now Riverside Park.
1680: French explorer Robert Cavelier, Sieur de LaSalle, cuts across the lower peninsula from Lake Michigan to Detroit, entering the River near today’s village of Dexter, passing through this region, to a position just downstream of Belleville. They continued to de Troit by land.
1834: Mark Norris and Daniel Cross design first addition to the village establishing the East Side as far north as Forest Avenue.
February 8, 1838: First train arrives from Detroit on the “Central Road.” 53 nineteenth century mills are established along the Huron River between Ypsilanti and Ann Arbor. Mill owners’ stylish and stately mansions arise along Huron and River Streets.
1850s: Wooden depot is demolished to allow tracks to continue to The West. Commercial district develops around new MCRR depot. Depot district becomes staging point for Michigan militias in the Civil War. Hotels, lodge halls, groceries, taverns and other small businesses serve the local workingman’s community for one hundred years.
1950s: Railroad traffic declines with the end of World War II. Neighborhood goes into steady decline as Interstate highways and shopping malls spread the population to suburbia.
Remember the Freight House will be open during Heritage Festival August 15-17, 2008
Lisa
Saturday, August 2, 2008
Ypsilanti Railroad Station
Posted by Ford Motor Railroad Club at 10:34 AM
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Hello, I'm the photographer whose image you're using to accompany this post. As I explain at length on this page, the license covering my work requires that it 1) link back to the original photo page and/or my website ( maproomsystems.org ), and 2) attribute me either by my name or the name of my organization (maproom systems).
I would appreciate it if you made these corrections.
thank you.
Brett Schutzman
Hello,
It's now been three weeks since I left the above comment, and you've neither responded to me nor made the suggested changes. Please note that it is well within my rights to file a Notice of Copyright Infringement with google, which could result in the termination of your blogger account.
I think I'm making a pretty simple request, and would prefer to just resolve the matter amicably.
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