The Detroit and Howell Railroad (D&H) is a defunct railroad organized in 1864 to build a line connecting
Howell
Howell may refer to:
Places
In the United Kingdom
*Howell, Lincolnshire, England
In the United States
*Howell, Georgia
* Howell, Evansville, a neighborhood of Evansville, Indiana
*Howell, Michigan
*Howell, Missouri
*Howell, Utah
*Howell Cou ...
and
Detroit
Detroit ( , ; , ) is the largest city in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is also the largest U.S. city on the United States–Canada border, and the seat of government of Wayne County. The City of Detroit had a population of 639,111 at th ...
in
southeast Michigan
Southeast Michigan, also called southeastern Michigan, is a region in the Lower Peninsula of Michigan that is home to a majority of the state's businesses and industries as well as slightly over half of the state's population, most of whom are c ...
.
The company incorporated on June 17, 1864 at a meeting of Howell businessmen in
New Hudson, though articles were not filed until September 21. A stock issue of $400,000 was authorized for construction of the proposed line. By 1866 enough money had been raised to conduct engineering surveys, and grading commenced the following year. The start of construction in Plymouth, Michigan, on February 6, 1867 was marked by a ceremony where a cherry wood tie was fashioned on the spot and laid on the center line of the road. The area was known as Shearers Cut.
By early 1870, the D&H had completed of line, although it remained unopened.
On March 29, 1870, the D&H merged with the
Howell and Lansing to form the
Detroit, Howell and Lansing under
James F. Joy. The merger agreement was filed April 11, 1870,
[''First Annual Report of the Commissioner of Railroads for the State of Michigan'', 1873] marking the end of the D&H. However, as of 2011 much of the D&H's route is still in use by
CSX
CSX Transportation , known colloquially as simply CSX, is a Class I freight railroad operating in the Eastern United States and the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Quebec. The railroad operates approximately 21,000 route miles () of track. ...
as part of its
Plymouth Subdivision.
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Railway companies established in 1864
Railway companies disestablished in 1870
Defunct Michigan railroads
Predecessors of the Pere Marquette Railway
Predecessors of CSX Transportation
American companies established in 1864
1864 establishments in Michigan