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  • About Us
    • Our Home
    • Annual Open House
  • Membership
  • Model Railroad
  • Prototype Railroad
    • Historic M&N
      • Main Line-Schwartzburg-Hilbert
      • Menasha Branch
        • High Cliff Spur
        • Appleton Branch
          • Atlas Paper Company
        • Neenah Branch
          • Krueger & Lachmann
        • Whiting Paper
      • Main Line-Hilbert Junction-Green Bay
      • Main Line-Fort Howard-Menominee River
      • Main Line-Menominee River-Ontonagon
        • Iron Mountain Iron Ore
      • Champion Branch
    • Rolling Stock
    • Reminders of the M&N
      • Reminders-Schwartzburg Junction-Hilbert Junction
      • Reminders-Menasha Branch
        • Reminders-Appleton Branch
        • Reminders-Neenah Branch
        • Reminders-High Cliff Spur
      • Reminders-Hilbert Junction-Green Bay
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      • Reminders-Menominee Branch
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Happy Birthday to the Milwaukee & Northern!

The Milwaukee & Northern was incorporated on 24 February 1870. It was granted a charter from the Wisconsin Legislature on this day, which allowed it organize and raise money in order to begin construction of the railroad.

M&N letterhead circa 1873

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