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Construction of the road began in 1830, when settlers of Eastern Michigan began to use the road. The survey was completed by 1831. [ 7 ] Father Gabriel Richard , a delegate to the United States Congress from 1823 to 1825, helped garner support for the road that would facilitate settlement in the state and provide a means for travel between ...
Dunbar, Willis F. and George S. May. Michigan: A History of the Wolverine State, 3rd ed. (1995) the standard comprehensive textbook 1980 edition online; Farmer, Silas (1889). The history of Detroit and Michigan; or, The metropolis illustrated; a full record of territorial days in Michigan, and the annals of Wayne County. Farmer, Silas (1890).
The first Pennsylvania Department of Highways road maps were issued in September 1912, per "First Map Showing the State Roads". Harrisburg Telegraph . September 26, 1912. p. 7.
The north–south highways range from the low 20s into the 40s. There are also three three-digit highways numbered in the 100s and one in the 200s as branches of related two-digit highways. [8] In Michigan, the US Highway System covers about 2,300 miles (3,701 km) of mainline highways and another 160 miles (257 km) of special routes. [3]
1854 The first official meeting of the group that called itself the "Republican Party" was held in Jackson. 1855 Michigan State University was founded as the Agricultural College of the State of Michigan, becoming the first land grant university in the United States.
July 4 – Henry David Thoreau delivers his fierce speech, Slavery in Massachusetts in Framingham, MA, harping on American politicians and journalists, all the while calling for action against the injustice of slavery within the Union. July 6 – In Jackson, Michigan, the first convention of the Republican Party is held.
After the arrival of Europeans, the area that became the Michigan Territory was first under French and then British control. The first Jesuit mission, in 1668 at Sault Saint Marie, led to the establishment of further outposts at St. Ignace (where a mission began work in 1671) and Detroit, first occupied in 1701 by the garrison of the former Fort de Buade under the leadership of Antoine de La ...