Portage was a station on the LSMS/NYC Grand Rapids Branch about three miles south of Kalamazoo. The LSMS/NYC had a 54 car passing track here in 1915. The first white settlers arrived here in 1830. [MPN]
Image info: Top, the railroad depot at Portage about 1875, just eight years after the railroad was built.
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