Stager is an
unincorporated community in
Iron County Iron County is the name of four counties in the United States:
*Iron County, Michigan
*Iron County, Missouri
*Iron County, Utah
*Iron County, Wisconsin
Iron County is a county located in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. As of the 2020 census, t ...
, in the
U.S. state of
Michigan.
History
The community was named for
Anson Stager, an official of the
Western Union Telegraph Company.
The site was once the location of a
Chicago and North Western Railway railroad right-of-way and telegraph line that connected Stager with
Wakefield, Michigan
Wakefield is a city in Gogebic County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 1,851 at the 2010 census.
Wakefield is located in the western Upper Peninsula about east of the Wisconsin border. The city is mostly surrounded by Wakefi ...
, but nothing of the line remains except the
State Line Trail The State Line Trail is a hiking trail in Michigan. Michigan's longest trail as of 2020, it creates a non-highway right-of-way through the western third of the Upper Peninsula. The trail uses a section of the former roadbed of the Chicago and Nort ...
built on the former railroad's roadbed.
References
Unincorporated communities in Iron County, Michigan
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