Three Forgotten Michigan Communities; Places That Had Promise but Failed

These three little Michigan communities barely exist anymore, and rarely show up on maps. The first one is CAMPBELL, in the U.P.’s Delta County. It was basically a station on the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad beginning in 1878. The nearest school was a couple of miles east and the closest post office was north in Defiance. All shopping and trading needed to be done in Defiance; the town had a blacksmith, general store, meat preservation building, sawmills, and a shoemaker. Campbell had none.

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