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Station: Pori, MI
Pori was founded about 1889 and had a station on the O&B Branch of the Milwaukee Road called Pori Siding. This was located about five miles southeast of McKeever.
Notes
Time Line
1930's. Pori was the location of a Civilian Conservation Camp (CCC) in the depression of the 1930's.
1943. From 1943 to 1945 during World War II, a prisoner of war camp was located here. [MPN]
1943. There was a railroad telephone available for MILW crews in the section house here. [ETT-1943]
Bibliography
The following sources are utilized in this website. [SOURCE-YEAR-MMDD-PG]:
- [AAB| = All Aboard!, by Willis Dunbar, Eerdmans Publishing, Grand Rapids ©1969.
- [AAN] = Alpena Argus newspaper.
- [AARQJ] = American Association of Railroads Quiz Jr. pamphlet. © 1956
- [AATHA] = Ann Arbor Railroad Technical and Historical Association newsletter "The Double A"
- [AB] = Information provided at Michigan History Conference from Andrew Bailey, Port Huron, MI