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South Dakota Highway 240 (SD 240), also signed as the Badlands Loop, is a 40.033-mile-long (64.427 km) state highway in southeastern Pennington and northwestern Jackson counties in South Dakota, United States, that travels through the eastern portion of Badlands National Park.
Originally built in 1913, Michigan Central Station was designed by the same architectural firms that worked on New York City’s Grand Central Station. The building had 10 gates for trains, and ...
6122 County Road 612 Grayling: November 18, 2000: Grayling Fish Hatchery: 4893 W North Down River Road Grayling: February 26, 1957: Hartwick Pines: 3896 Hartwick Pines Rd. Grayling Charter Township: September 17, 1957: Michigan Central Railroad - Grayling Station: 401 Norway Street Grayling: August 21, 1986: Pere Cheney Cemetery: End of Center ...
Serving as a Great Lakes lifesaving station from 1854 to 1932, this is the only extant example of the nearly 200 stations that once existed. The stations were volunteer run until 1915, when they became part of the US Coast Guard, and existed to provide aid to victims of shipwrecks. [35] [36] 34 # Norton Mound group: Norton Mound group
Michigan Central Station closed in 1988, abandoned and destroyed. The Michigan Central Station restoration used limestone on the façade and interior obtained from the Lawrence County, Indiana ...
A different kind of traveler. In those first years of the brand new Michigan Central Station, many African Americans were coming to Detroit, drawn by Henry Ford's offer of $5 a day in 1914.
In Wall, an alternate route of US 16 (present day SD 240) split from the highway and headed south, through the Badlands National Monument (now Badlands National Park). US 14 and US 16 split south of Philip , with US 14 traveling due east and US 16 continuing south (following present-day SD 73 to its intersection with the eastern end of US 16 ...
Dual-sided Michigan state historic marker. On July 28, 1866, Congress appropriated $35,000 for a new lighthouse at Big Sable Point. Approximately 933 acres (378 ha) was deeded from the State of Michigan to the U.S. at no cost and in early 1867 construction began, [12] making it the first light station in the area. [13]