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The Chatsworth Train Wreck occurred just east of Chatsworth in 1887. Approximately 85 people were killed and 372 injured. It still ranks as the 7th worst American train wreck in terms of the number of fatalities. In 1939, a citizen in Chatsworth loaned a lantern from the train wreck to the Livingston County Historical Society. Back in 1939, the Society had one of the few museums in the county. In recent years, this lantern has been on display in the old County Courthouse in Pontiac. With the recent completion of the Bluebird Hall in Chatsworth, Richard Runyon, Mayor of Chatsworth requested the Society return the old lantern so it could be displayed in Bluebird Hall. On July 25th, Dale C. Maley, President of the Livingston County Historical Society, returned the 132 year-old lantern to Mayor Richard Runyon, as shown in the attached photo, after it was on loan to the society for 80 years
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