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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. [24] An economic panic in 1837 drove settlers from New York to Michigan; these were the travelers who followed the Grand River Road.
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 ...
At the end of the 1970s, MDOT took part in a FHWA-backed initiative called the Positive Guidance Demonstration Project, and the two agencies audited signage practices in the vicinity of the I-96/M-37 and I-296/US 131 interchange in Walker near Grand Rapids. MDOT determined that usage of the I-296 designation was "a potential source of confusion ...
The Muskegon–Grand Rapids–Lansing–Detroit corridor was initially named the Grand River Road, [16] an Indian trail [17] that was designated as a military highway in 1825. [18] The roadway was included as a branch of "Division 2" of the State Trunkline Highway System when that was created in May 1913. [ 19 ]
Later, the initial approvals by the federal government routed I-96 from Benton Harbor north to Grand Rapids and then east to Detroit, and I-196 was the spur route from Grand Rapids to Muskegon. [a] [16] The first segment of freeway built was a relocated section of US 16 near Coopersville and Marne.
Granville Avenue & Clyde Park Avenue on the Wyoming–Grand Rapids city line 1974 [97] current Previously extended into Grand Rapids and terminated at US 131 before December 2017 [98] BS I-375: 0.167: 0.269 M-3 and M-10 in Detroit: I-375 in Detroit 1963 [53] current Unsigned along Jefferson Avenue [e] Capitol Loop: 2.381: 3.832
After his death, Detroit renamed its section of Northwestern Highway after Couzens. [54] John C. Lodge was a member of the constitutional convention which drafted the Michigan Constitution of 1908, a former member of the Michigan Legislature and Detroit alderman and councilman. He later served as Mayor of Detroit in 1918–1919 before returned ...
The first trunkline to be designated M-3 was Schaefer Highway in 1937, running north–south from US 25 (Dix Avenue) in Melvindale to US 16 (Grand River Avenue) in western Detroit. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] Two years later, the highway became M-39 .