The Detroit, Howell and Lansing Railroad is a defunct railroad which operated in
central and
southeast
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Michigan during the early 1870s. The company formed on March 29, 1870 through the consolidation of the
Detroit and Howell and the
Howell and Lansing.
[Meints (1992), 64.] From the two companies the DH&L gained a partially graded right-of-way long, with track laid on perhaps half of it, stretching from
Lansing
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southeast to
Detroit
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.
[Michigan Legislature (1871), 31-32.]
On March 16, 1871 the company consolidated with the
Ionia and Lansing to form the
Detroit, Lansing & Lake Michigan. The company had existed as an independent entity for less than a year.
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Railway companies established in 1870
Railway companies disestablished in 1871
Defunct Michigan railroads
Central Michigan
Predecessors of the Pere Marquette Railway