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The Michigan State Highway Department (MSHD) was created in 1905, and the department paid counties and townships to improve roads to state standards. On May 13, 1913, the State Reward Trunk Line Highways Act was passed, creating the State Trunkline Highway System.
The new state lacked the money to continue improvements to the road, and Michigan petitioned Congress for the better part of the next decade for money to complete the work. [26] When the state capital was moved to Lansing in 1847, an improved road was needed to the capital city. [25] The first segments of roadway were privatized starting in ...
Lake City Experiment Station at Call Road near Lake City 1929 [32] [112] 1939 [125] now Jennings Road M-142: 39.186: 63.064 M-25 in Bay Port: M-25 in Harbor Beach: 1939 [68] current M-143 — — US 27 near Cheboygan: Cheboygan State Park 1931 [113] 1960 [126] Lincoln Avenue M-143: 0.936: 1.506 Lansing–East Lansing city line
M-6, or the Paul B. Henry Freeway, is a 19.7-mile-long (31.7 km) east–west freeway and state trunkline highway in the United States that serves portions of southern Kent and eastern Ottawa counties south of Grand Rapids, Michigan.
The Grand River Road was a major route for settlers headed inland to Grand Rapids in 1836, as the shortest route for travelers coming from Detroit. [ 20 ] In 1850, the Michigan State Legislature established the Lansing and Howell Plank Road Company, [ 21 ] which set about converting various Indian trails into the Lansing–Howell Plank Road, a ...
On May 13, 1913, the Michigan Legislature passed the State Reward Trunk Line Highway Act, which included Gratiot Avenue as part of Division 1 of the initial highway system. [22] When the Michigan State Highway Department signposted the first state highways in 1919, [ 23 ] the trunkline bore the M-19 designation for its entire length from ...
M-231 is the designation of a state trunkline highway in the Lower Peninsula of the US state of Michigan that serves as a partial bypass to US Highway 31 (US 31) around Grand Haven. This highway was built south of Interstate 96 (I-96) as an additional crossing over the Grand River .
Milwaukee Junction is an area in Detroit, Michigan, east of New Center.Located near the railroad junction of the Grand Trunk Western Railroad's predecessors Detroit, Grand Haven and Milwaukee Railway and the Chicago, Detroit and Canada Grand Trunk Junction, the area encompasses the streets of East Grand Boulevard to the north, St. Aubin St./Hamtramck Drive to the east, John R Street to the ...