Ann Arbor Railroad
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Howell raised twenty thousand dollars in 1885 to induce the Toledo, Ann Arbor and Northern Michigan to enter town. Many believed the town, already served by one railroad, would boom with a second line. Early in 1886 a right-of-way dispute erupted in an armed brawl between workmen of the two lines. The case was mediated in favor of the TAA&NM, and in the summer of 1886 this depot was built.
The line was renamed the Ann Arbor Railroad in 1895.
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