| Spring Lake is just east of Grand Haven, and was on
the line built by the Detroit, Grand Haven and Milwaukee RR and operated
for many years by the Grand Trunk. A carferry operated between Grand Haven
and Milwaukee until 1933. In that year the Grand Trunk moved its carferry
operation to Muskegon. The line through Spring Lake was downgraded, but still
had passenger service in the form of a daily except Sunday mixed train. It
lasted until 1955. Tracks through Spring Lake have been removed.
The depot itself, has been moved twice. It was first moved
to a storage lot, near an auto junkyard just east of town . In 1999, the
depot was moved again, closer to the road, M-104. The depot got a
large pole-barn addition on the east end
as part of a project to convert it into antique store,
Depot Antiques.
The building is in great shape, probably better than when
the railroad owned it. The building was changed very little; even the interior
still has the old board walls, cieling, and ticket
window. |
