The Detroit, Grand Haven and Milwaukee Railway is a defunct railroad which operated in the US state of

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during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Itself the product of several consolidations in the 1870s, it became part of the Grand Trunk Western Railroad in 1928. The DGH&M was formed from the ruin of Detroit and Milwaukee Railroad, a successor road to the

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, one of the first roads organized in the state of Michigan. The Great Western Railway, a Canadian company, had taken financial control of the D&M in 1860 after it defaulted on debt payments. The D&M entered receivership in 1875; in 1878 Great Western purchased it outright and refinanced the debts. The reorganized company bore the name Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwaukee Railway. Its

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station was located at the corner of Plainfield and East Leonard. The new company possessed a line stretching from

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in the southeast to Grand Haven on the eastern shore of

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.Galbraith's railway mail service maps, Michigan.
Publ. Chicago 1897, c1898. Library of Congress. Accessed April 2020. By 1882 the road came under the ownership of the Grand Trunk Railway of Canada when the Grand Trunk acquired the Great Western, but it was not formally consolidated until 1928.

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Defunct Michigan railroads Predecessors of the Grand Trunk Railway Railway companies established in 1878 Railway companies disestablished in 1928 Former Class I railroads in the United States 1878 establishments in Michigan {{Michigan-transport-stub