Saline's Library-Brecon Trail Was Centuries in the Making
After years of planning, a trail for non-motorized transportation now connects N. Ann Arbor Street and the Depot Museum to Brecon Park, Saline District Library and N. Maple Road.
Within months of approval by the City Council in September, the Library-Brecon trail has been completed, extending a connection for non-motorized transportation from N. Ann Arbor Street to Maple Road. However the history of this trail goes back more than a century. During the Civil War era the people of Saline wanted a railroad to transport farm produce, both to the armies and to other markets. It would also carry passengers. “They were desperate to get a railroad,” said Bob Lane, curator of the Depot Museum. The Village of Saline invested $75,000 in the Detroit, Hillsdale and Indiana Railroad, which laid track through Saline from Ypsilanti to Bankers in 1868. The Saline Depot, a part of the old grain elevator (now Sammi’s Hair Station) …
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