Summer: Lewis Cass, the "foremost citizen of Detroit for a generation", addresses members of the "three months' regiment" at the D&M depot when the regiment returned to Detroit. [MRC-6/1973]
September 7, 1860: The Lady Elgin, a sidewheel steamboat enroute from Chicago to Milwaukee on Lake Michigan, sinks near Winnetka after a collision with a lumber vessel in a storm. Several hundred passengers and crew lost their lives. [DN-2025-1104]
September: Flint & Pere Marquette finishes construction from Saginaw 20 miles south towards Flint. [MRRC]
November: Amboy, Lansing and Traverse Bay Railroad opens line from Owosso to Laingsburg. [MRRC]
December: The Detroit & Milwaukee Railroad is the first main-line railroad to penetrate Michigan's white pine forests. They began hauling logs from the Crockery Creek valley to Hunter Savidge's sawmill in Mill Point adjacent to Spring Lake. [MH-11/1993]
December 31: Michigan Railroad Mileage Totaled 700 miles. [MDOT/AAD]
Michigan Central Railroad builds a 3-story brick depot in Ypsilanti - [MRC-0988]
Passengers could travel from Boston to St. Louis in about 48 hours. [STOV]
Passenger train conductors and brakemen were furnished uniforms by the railroad. During the Civil War, these were stovepipe hats but these soon gave way to caps. [AAD]
Nationally, there are 30,000 miles of railroad track. [STOV]
George Pullman builds a plant in Detroit to manufacture his Palace and Sleeping Cars. Later, Pullman moved the entire operation to Chicago. [AAD]
Detroit's population: 45,619 [D18/BOM]
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