Grand River Avenue From Detroit to Lake Michigan

Free Download Jon Milan, Gail Offen, "Grand River Avenue: From Detroit to Lake Michigan"
English | 2014 | pages: 128 | ISBN: 1467112127, 1531669689 | PDF | 119,7 mb
Grand River Avenue details the history of this historical Michigan roadway, which has served as a footpath, wagon rut, and ultimately a two-lane highway.

Grand River Avenue, or Michigan US-16 as it was ultimately designated, is one of Michigan’s true ""Blue Highways""-an original two-lane, blacktop road still serving as a direct path through roadside America. Originally a Native American trail, this ancient path has been a westbound route from the Straits of Detroit to the eastern shores of Lake Michigan for more than 1,000 years. Over time, it has served as a footpath, horse trail, wagon rut, stagecoach route, plank road, and ultimately a two-lane highway that gave some of America’s earliest motorists their first taste of long-distance automobile travel.