Station: Lowell, MI

Lowell was settled in 1831 with a trading post. In 1847 it was called Danville but the name was changed to Lowell in 1851. It became a village in 1861. [MPN]

Lowell was located on the Pere Marquette Elmdale to Saginaw branch, on the very east edge of Kent County. There was also a crossing just south of town of the Grand Trunk Western line which was called Malta interlocking tower.

Image Info: Top, Grand Trunk passenger train No. 19 picks up passengers at Lowell in 1937. [Florence Kuhn Collection]. 2nd image, a postcard view of the Pere Marquette depot at Lowell with a passenger train arriving. [Alan Loftis collection]. 3rd image, the same depot under Chesapeake & Ohio ownership in  1976. [Charles Geletzke Jr.]. 4th image, the Pere Marquette bridge over the Grand River at Lowell.

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Time Line

1905. The PM installed a new scale at Lowell. [PMAR-1905]

1917. The GTW had an agent here as well as operators around the clock. [TRT]