The Michigan Ghost Town Named Dick

Well, it had to happen one of these days.....a little write-up on the Michigan town of Dick.

The ghost town of Dick, Michigan was a lumber town, postal stop, and railway station along the Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie Railroad. The little town was established when a post office set up operations on December 15, 1904, enlisting Lemuel Green as postmaster. Lem's postal duties were taken over by Elick Person, a local lumberman, on May 21, 1906.

Dick's post office – which also included a general store - closed down on December 30, 1916; from then on, their mail service was transferred to Trout Lake, ten miles west on Trout Lake Rd.

The Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie Railroad began operations in 1883, boosting new settlements throughout the Upper Peninsula. The rails went through many towns, including the now-ghost towns of Dick, Cordell, Fibre, Haff, Spur, Alexander, and Dryburg, and the towns of Trout Lake and Rudyard. Up to eight passenger trains a day ran the route through the towns.

Dick can be found on S. Hayward School Road, in Trout Lake Township, Chippewa County.