Smith's Creek Depot (1858), Greenfield Village, Dearborn MI

            Smith's Creek Depot currently serves the Weiser Railroad which operates on the Greenfield Village museum grounds in Dearborn, MI. The depot was originally built (1858) in Smiths Creek, Michigan, which is  located nine miles southwest of Port Huron by the Chicago, Detroit and Canada Grand Trunk Junction Rail Road Company, along a line that wasn't finished until 1859, and was acquired by the Grand Trunk and Western Railroad in 1928. The depot was moved to Dearborn a year later. 

The depot served both as a train stop and home to the stationmaster and his family. The stationmaster, sold tickets and worked the telegraph machine. People could also mail packages and send telegrams. As a boy during the Civil War to help support his family, Thomas Edison worked as a news butcher out of this depot, selling newspapers and candy aboard trains to passengers traveling between Detroit and Port Huron, Michigan. Thomas Edison also had a laboratory set up in the depot where he spent many hours performed his experiments. Edison got fired from his job on passenger trains because he conducted a chemistry experiment in a baggage car, accidently setting it on fire.

Taken in: United States / Michigan / Dearborn (show map)

Taken on: July 24, 2015

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