Station: Valentine Lake, MI

Valentine Lake is a medium sized lake which is west of M-33 highway, about eight miles north of Atlanta in Montmorency County. The area was first logged in 1894. [MPN]. The Conners Lumber Company was the predominant lumber company here. [LITF] The town was reportedly on the north side of the lake.

This was a station stop on the Alpena & Northern railroad and probably the last location for which someone could purchase a ticket on this line, though the line continued west into Otsego County. When the Detroit & Mackinac railroad took over the A&N and extended their line northwest to Onaway and Cheboygan, this line became a branch called the Valentine Lake Branch of the D&M.

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1900. A log train consisting of an engine and twelve cars left the rails on White's log road, on the Valentine division of the Alpena & Northern railroad, and ran into a ditch. The accident was caused by rails spreading. [DFP-1900-0220]

1903. September 5. The Valentine branch of the Detroit & Mackinac railroad is being take up and the material will be used in the extension of the road to Cheboygan.[DFP-1903-0905]