Detroit and Pontiac Railroad
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The Detroit and Pontiac Railroad is a defunct railroad which operated in the state of Michigan during the mid-nineteenth century. It was the sixth railroad to receive a charter from Michigan, then a territory, and the second, after the Erie & Kalamazoo, to actually operate trains.
The first attempt to connect Detroit and Pontiac by railroad had come in 1830, when the Michigan Territorial Council granted a charter to the Pontiac and Detroit Railroad.[1] This was the first such charter granted both in Michigan and in the region.[2]
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- Burton, Clarence Monroe; William Stocking, Gordon K. Miller (1922). The City of Detroit, Michigan, 1701-1922. Detroit: S. J. Clarke.
- Farmer, Silas (1884). The History of Detroit and Michigan. S. Farmer & Co.
