Alcona Historical Society

See this November 2024 update of completed Depot renovation and revitalization funded by your donations.

The Alcona Historical Society requested that the Harrisville Depot Committee form a separate nonprofit. Thus the nonprofit 501(c)3 organization Friends of the Harrisville Train Depot was formed in Sept 2024 with depot ownership transferred to Friends of the Harrisville Train Depot. Thank you Lake State Rail Way Company (Saginaw, MI).

Your generous support funded stabilization after being empty for multiple decades and experiencing unfortunate vandalism and exposure to the elements. Your donation fueled the first phase of the project, to set up utilities; install security; insurance costs; emergency facilities upgrades to exterior and interior.

Photo Credits Root Doctor Photography

Dubbed “The Forgotten Depot” over the decades, the Harrisville, Michigan historic cut stone building now stands empty in a small Northeastern Michigan town that was once bustling in the Victorian Era as a lumber resource and a Great Lake vacation destination. While not quite “forgotten,” the Depot is a hidden gem long neglected, in the once busy, now very quiet town of Harrisville, Michigan.

These funds were used for the first initiatives to save this building, including turning on utilities, installing a security system, exterior cleaning, making critical building renovations and other stabilization projects which were needed before any further damage is incurred.

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