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Harrison Township, Michigan
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Harrison Charter Township is a charter township and a census-designated place of Macomb County in the U. S. state of Michigan. As of the 2000 census, the population was 24,461, the 2008 Census Bureau Estimate places the population at 26,004. The area was projected in approximately 1900, mostly backed by financing from Pittsburgh, however, it did not develop much more than having an interurban rail connection with the city. Saint Clair Haven, or Clair Haven is located on Campau Bay of the Lake Saint Clair, belvedere was a village at the mouth of the Clinton River. It was established in 1837 but flooded the following year and was abandoned. According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has an area of 23.8 square miles. The location of the township makes it a popular attraction for many people in surrounding areas. Lake Saint Clair Metropark is located on the shoreline of Harrison Township, the park contains nature trails, a nature center, playgrounds, beaches, pools, and picnic areas. The park has docks available to boaters, locally, Harrison Township is known as BoatTown, U. S. A. due to the large number of marinas. Selfridge Air National Guard Base is located in Harrison Township, the U. S. Census Bureau has defined Harrison Township as a census-designated place in the 2000 Census. This allows the community to appear both on the list of places as well on the list of county subdivisions, the final statistics for the township and the CDP are identical. As of the census of 2000, there were 24,461 people,10,720 households, the population density was 1,710.2 per square mile. There were 11,486 housing units at a density of 803.0 per square mile. The racial makeup of the township was 94. 53% White,2. 47% African American,0. 38% Native American,0. 58% Asian,0. 04% Pacific Islander,0. 45% from other races, and 1. 55% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1. 48% of the population,33. 1% of all households were made up of individuals and 8. 2% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.28 and the family size was 2.94. In the township the population was out with 21. 9% under the age of 18,8. 7% from 18 to 24,32. 5% from 25 to 44,26. 0% from 45 to 64. The median age was 38 years, for every 100 females there were 101.2 males
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U.S. Route 24 in Michigan
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US Highway 24 is a United States Numbered Highway that runs from Minturn, Colorado, to Independence Township, Michigan. In Michigan, it is known as Telegraph Road and runs for 79.828 miles as a major north–south state trunkline highway from the Ohio state line through Metro Detroit. The highway runs through three counties in southeastern Michigan, Monroe, Wayne and Oakland, as it parallels the Lake Erie shoreline, Telegraph Road connects several suburbs together and passes through the western edge of Detroit before it terminates northwest of Clarkston at an interchange with Interstate 75. The northern part of the highway follows a section of an old Indian trail called the Saginaw Trail that connected Detroit with points further north, the southern sections in the Downriver area south to Monroe parallel telegraph lines from the mid-19th century. These lines gave the road its name, later this road was added to the state highway system in the early 20th century. It was upgraded and extended during the 1920s to serve as a bypass of Detroit. The US24 designation was applied to the highway on November 11,1926, since that time, an alternate route, Alternate US Highway 24 was designated between the state line and the Gibraltar area, this highway later became part of I-75. In the 1970s, the northernmost section gained the US10 designation when that highway was rerouted and that overlap was eliminated in 1986, and US24 was extended north to Clarkston to replace a segment of US10. At the same time, a loop in Pontiac was redesignated for US24 in addition to its connector routes it has. Like other state highways in Michigan, US24 is maintained by the Michigan Department of Transportation, all of US24 north of I-275 is listed on the National Highway System, a network of roads important to the countrys economy, defense, and mobility. US24 crosses the Ohio state line and follows Telegraph Road northeasterly through Monroe County, the highway runs parallel to the Lake Erie shoreline, farther inland than both I-75 or M-125. The area around the trunkline is a mixture of farm friends, luna Pier Road connects US24 to M-125 near Erie, this roadway is an unsigned highway called Connector US24 that runs as a connector route between the two highways. Further north, US24 passes to the west side of Monroe, the trunkline crosses the River Raisin near this intersection as well. North of Monroe near Stoney Creek, M-125 merges into US24, further north, US24 crosses I-275 before passing near the Flat Rock Speedway. The highway then crosses the Huron River and into Wayne County, Telegraph Road runs through downtown Flat Rock as it parallels the Lake Erie shoreline. North of the city in Brownstown Township, Telegraph Road and US24 turn due north, US24 runs along Dix–Toledo Highway to connect US24 to I-75 near Woodhaven. US24 in Taylor that provides access from southbound US24 to southbound I-75, Telegraph continues northward through Taylor, widening into a boulevard and gaining a median. Traffic turning left onto the road needs to perform a Michigan left maneuver to do so and it crosses the South Branch of the Ecorse River
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Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
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Bloomfield Hills is a city located in Metro Detroits northern suburbs in Oakland County in the U. S. state of Michigan,20.2 miles northwest of downtown Detroit. The city is almost completely surrounded by Bloomfield Township, as of the 2010 census, the city population was 3,869. What is now Bloomfield Hills was an area until the turn of the 20th century when wealthy Detroit residents bought up the land. The settlement became a village in 1927, and in 1932 residents voted to become a city to avoid being incorporated into growing Birmingham, Bloomfield Hills is the location of the National Historic Landmark Cranbrook Educational Community and other historic sites listed on the national register of historic places. In popular culture, Bloomfield Hills was the setting for the 2005 film The Upside of Anger. In the 2002 film 8 Mile, Eminem mentions Cranbrook Kingswood while making fun of Doc because he attended Cranbrook, Bloomfield Hills is the hometown of the comic book character, Trance. Some scenes in Out of Sight with Jennifer Lopez and George Clooney were filmed at a residence in Bloomfield Hills. Jimmy Hoffa was last seen at the former Machus Red Fox restaurant in adjacent Bloomfield Township, the novel Gilda Joyce, The Ladies of the Lake is set in a private school in Bloomfield. The Congregational Church of Birmingham United Church of Christ was founded in Birmingham, St. Hugo of the Hills Roman Catholic Church was funded by Theodore F. MacManus and his wife in memory of their deceased children, Hugo and Hubert. St. Hugo of the Hills Catholic Church was built from 1931–1936, with approval from Bishop Michael J. Gallagher, other churches include St. Acme Group, consisting of Acme Mills, Great Lakes Filters, and Fairway Products, is headquartered in Bloomfield Hills. Other companies headquartered in Bloomfield Hills, MI include Taubman Centers, larson Realty Group, Princeton Enterprises, PulteGroup, Inc. TIP Capital, Bloomfield Hills Bancorp, Reverie, BlackEagle Partners, alidade Capital, and O2 Investment Partners.04 square miles, of which 4.96 square miles is land and 0.08 square miles is water. As of the 2005–2009 American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates, there were 3,774 people,1,570 households, the population density was 796.4 per square mile. There were 1,628 housing units at a density of 329.1 per square mile. The racial makeup of the city was 89. 1% White,5. 4% Asian,4. 3% Black,0. 8% from other races, hispanic or Latino of any race were 2. 2% of the population. As of the census of 2010, there were 3,869 people,1,489 households, the population density was 780.0 inhabitants per square mile. There were 1,659 housing units at a density of 334.5 per square mile. The racial makeup of the city was 87. 3% White,4. 1% African American,0. 1% Native American,6. 7% Asian,0. 3% from other races, hispanic or Latino of any race were 1. 5% of the population
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M-1 (Michigan highway)
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M-1, commonly known as Woodward Avenue, is a north–south state trunkline highway in the Metro Detroit area of the US state of Michigan. The highway, called Detroits Main Street, runs from Detroit north-northwesterly to Pontiac, the street is one of the five principal avenues of Detroit, which also include Michigan, Grand River, Gratiot and Jefferson avenues. These streets were platted in 1805 by Judge Augustus B, the US Department of Transportation has listed the highway as the Automotive Heritage Trail, an All-American Road in the National Scenic Byways Program. It has also designated a Pure Michigan Byway by the Michigan Department of Transportation. The roadway was included in the MotorCities National Heritage Area designated by the US Congress in 1998. The trunkline is the line between Detroits East and West sides, and it connects to some of the citys major freeways like Interstate 94. Woodward Avenue exits Detroit at M-102 and runs through the northern suburbs in Oakland County on its way to Pontiac. In between, Woodward Avenue passes through several historic districts in Detroit and provides access to businesses in the area. The name Woodward Avenue has become synonymous with Detroit, cruising culture, Woodward Avenue was created after the Detroit Fire in 1805. It followed the route of the Saginaw Trail, an Indian trail that linked Detroit with Pontiac, Flint, the Saginaw Trail also connected to the Mackinaw Trail, which ran north to the Straits of Mackinac at the tip of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan. In the age of the trails, Woodward Avenue was also part of the Theodore Roosevelt International Highway that connected Portland, Maine, with Portland. It was also a part of the Dixie Highway, which connected Michigan with Florida, Woodward Avenue was the location of the first mile of concrete roadway in the country. When Michigan created the State Trunkline Highway System in 1913, the roadway was included, numbered as part of M-10 in 1919, later, it was part of US Highway 10 following the creation of the United States Numbered Highway System. Since 1970, it has borne the M-1 designation, the roadway carried streetcar lines from the 1860s until the 1950s, a new light rail line will be added in the future. Like other state highways in Michigan, the section of Woodward Avenue designated M-1 is maintained by MDOT, all of M-1 north of I-75 is listed on the National Highway System, a network of roads important to the countrys economy, defense, and mobility. In addition to the sections of Woodward Avenue in Pontiac that are part of Business Loop I-75 and Business US24, all of M-1 is a Pure Michigan Byway, Woodward Avenue is also considered to be the divider between the East and West sides of the city of Detroit. Woodward Avenue starts at an intersection with Jefferson Avenue next to Hart Plaza about 750 feet from the Detroit River, the plaza is regarded as the birthplace of the Ford Motor Company, and it is located near Cobo Center and the Renaissance Center, headquarters for General Motors. Woodward Avenue runs north-northwesterly away from the river through the heart of downtown Detroit, along the way, it passes several important and historic sites, including notable buildings like One Woodward Avenue, the Guardian Building and The Qube
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Interstate 75 in Michigan
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Interstate 75 is a part of the Interstate Highway System that runs from Miami, Florida, to Sault Ste. Marie in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, the freeway runs for approximately 396 miles on both of Michigans peninsulas. The landscapes traversed by I-75 include Southern Michigan farmland, northern forests, suburban communities. The freeway also uses three of the states monumental bridges to cross bodies of water. There are four auxiliary Interstates in the related to I-75, as well as nine current or former business routes. The freeway bears several names in addition to the I-75 designation, the southern segment was called the Detroit–Toledo Expressway during planning in the 1950s and 1960s. Through Detroit, I-75 is the Fisher Freeway or the Walter P, Chrysler Freeway, named for pioneers in the auto industry. Sections on either side of the Mackinac Bridge are the G. Mennen Williams Freeway or the Prentiss M. Brown Freeway, officially, the entire length is the American Legion Memorial Highway, after the organization of the same name. Various sections carry components of the four Great Lakes Circle Tours in the state, several Indian trails spanned the state along the general path of the modern freeway. After statehood, several of these were converted into plank roads that became some of the first state highways. In the 1920s, five of these were added to the United States Numbered Highway System, US Highway 2, US10, US24, US25, in the 1950s, a Michigan Turnpike was proposed as a tolled, controlled-access highway in the Lower Peninsula. After passage of the Federal Highway Act of 1956, this proposal was shelved as a free Interstate Highway was planned. Construction started in 1957, signs went up in 1959, since completion, the freeway has been upgraded with the construction of the Zilwaukee Bridge near Saginaw and improved connections to the Ambassador Bridge in Detroit. Known as Michigans Main Street, I-75 is listed on the National Highway System for its entire length, the NHS is a network of roadways important to the countrys economy, defense, and mobility. I-75 carries segments of all four Great Lakes Circle Tours in the state and it is also the only highway located on both Michigans Upper and Lower peninsulas. Between the Ohio state line and Kawkawlin, I-75 contains between a minimum of six and a maximum of ten lanes total, other sections vary between four and six lanes in total. Crossing the state north of Toledo, Ohio, I-75 enters Michigan in Monroe County carrying the Lake Erie Circle Tour near the North Maumee Bay of Lake Erie. The freeway runs parallel to the shoreline of the Great Lake, further north, I-75 passes to the southeast of Monroe and crosses the River Raisin between the city and the river mouth
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Troy, Michigan
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Troy is a city located among Metropolitan Detroits northern suburbs in Oakland County in the U. S. state of Michigan. The population was 80,980 at the 2010 census, making it the 11th-largest city in Michigan by population, Troy has become a business and shopping destination in the Metro Detroit area, with numerous office centers and the upscale Somerset Collection mall. In 2011, Troy was ranked the safest city in Michigan, in 2008, Troy ranked as the fourth most affordable U. S. city with a median household income of approximately $79,000. The earliest recorded purchases of land in what was known as Troy Township occurred in 1819, a couple of years later a settlement known as Troy Corners was established due to Johnson Niles buying 160 acres in the region. The area is currently the area of Troy. In 1827 Troy Township was established, the latitude of Troy is 42.605 N, and the longitude is 83.15 W. The mean elevation is 748 ft, the Troy Historic Village is a fully interactive historical museum chronicling the different stages of Troys progression from its first settlers to the city it has become today. Located at the corners of Livernois Road and Wattles Road, the village is located behind the old city hall building, each structure is original and was painstakingly moved from its original location to the museum intact. There is a gazebo in the center of the square which will host parties, many schools from around the area plan field trips to the museum, and the church is also available for weddings. In the summer of 2005, to commemorate the citys 50th anniversary, ceramic beaver statues, the beaver is the symbol of Troy, and the citys main commercial thoroughfare is named after it. Troy is also home to two of the largest Protestant churches in the USA, Kensington Community Church and Woodside Bible Church, the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America Metropolis of Detroit is headquartered in Troy. In 2003, Troy was named Michigans Sportstown by Sports Illustrated magazine for having the top community sports programs in the state, the Troy Eccentric newspaper edition ceased publication in 2009. Troy is a center of business, particularly in the automotive and financial sectors. Troy has the second highest cumulative property value in Michigan, second only to Detroit, Troy is home to the Somerset Collection mall, featuring a skywalk and over 180 stores, and the Oakland Mall. The Top of Troy is the citys tallest building with offices of PNC Financial Services, bank of America maintains a major operations center in Troy. Planners have proposed the Pavilions of Troy project for the city, a square with boulevards lined with upscale shops, restaurants, offices, a theater. In 2012 Mahindra & Mahindra opened a center in Troy. Franks Nursery & Crafts was an arts and crafts chain spanning 14 states that was headquartered in Troy, the company filed for bankruptcy in 2004, and became defunct soon after
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M-53 (Michigan highway)
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M-53 is a north–south state trunkline highway in the US state of Michigan that connects Detroit to The Thumb region. The highway starts in Detroit at a connection with M-3 and ends in Port Austin, in between, the trunkline passes through the northern suburbs of Metro Detroit, connects to freeways like Interstate 69 and provides access to rural farmland. In Macomb County, M-53 follows the Christopher Columbus Freeway, while the remainder of the highway is known as Van Dyke Avenue in the area or Van Dyke Road elsewhere. The highway has also named the Earle Memorial Highway for one of the pioneers of the Good Roads Movement. When the first state highways were signed in the field in 1919, M-53 was one of them, in the 1920s, the highway was extended northward to connect with Port Austin. Later improvements through 1940 realigned a section of the roadway near Imlay City, with planning and construction during the 1950s and 1960s, the state converted portions of the road north of Detroit to have divided highway and freeway segments. The freeway bypass of Romeo was started in the 1990s and finished to its current state in 2003, starting at the intersection between Van Dyke Avenue and M-3, M-53 runs north-northwesterly along Van Dyke in the city of Detroit. The four-lane roadway passes through neighborhoods on the citys east side. About a half north of its start, M-53 meets I-94 at the latters exit 218. On the opposite side of the interchange, Van Dyke Avenue turns due north. In this area, the highway crosses branch lines for both the Conrail Shared Assets Operations and the Canadian National Railway. M-53 continues northward through residential areas north of 6 Mile Road and crosses from Detroit into Warren at the junction with 8 Mile Road, the highway passes through the middle of Center Line, an enclave surrounded by Warren. On the northern edge of Center Line, M-53 meets exit 23 along I-696, north of this interchange, Van Dyke Avenue crosses back into Warren and continues northward. The highway is paralleled by a Conrail line as both pass through the northern Detroit suburbs. Between 12 Mile and 14 Mile roads, M-53 passes next to the General Motors Technical Center, the roadway widens out into a divided highway as it continues northward, crossing into Sterling Heights at 14 Mile Road. The highway is bounded by additional commercial and light industrial properties as it intersects Metropolitan Parkway, near 18 Mile Road, M-53 curves to the northeast and separates from Van Dyke Avenue. This separation is marked by an interchange as M-53 also transitions into a full, the interchange, numbered exit 15, connects to a roundabout junction with 18½ Mile Road and Van Dyke Avenue. M-53, now named either the Van Dyke Freeway or the Christopher Columbus Freeway, crosses the Clinton River before resuming a northward course, passing to the east side of Utica in Shelby Township
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Sterling Heights, Michigan
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Sterling Heights is a city in Macomb County of the U. S. state of Michigan, and one of Detroits core suburbs. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 129,699. It is the second largest suburb in Metro Detroit, and the fourth largest city in Michigan, Sterling Heights consistently ranks as the safest city in Michigan with population over 100,000. Sterling Heights was incorporated as a city in 1968 and it was until the 1950s an agricultural area largely devoted to growing rhubarb and other crops sold in Detroit. Prior to 1968 Sterling Heights was known as Sterling Township and it had from 1836 until 1838 been known as Jefferson Township. Dobry Road on the city limits is named after the last township supervisor, Anthony Dobry. Gerald Donovan became the first mayor of the city, F. James Dunlop became the first mayor pro-tem. Moravian was another name under consideration for the new city, lakeside Mall opened in Sterling Heights in 1976. By 1991 the city had received many people of ethnic European origins, including ethnic Albanians, Bosnians, Croatians, Macedonians, Montenegrins, Serbians and they moved from Detroit and Hamtramck. In the 1990s, ethnic Macedonians in Sterling Heights, together with ethnic Serbs, had the nickname Yugos, the ethnic Albanians had the nickname the Albos. The two groups often had conflicts in the 1990s, as of 1991 many residents worked in automobile plants operated by Chrysler and Ford, and that year, Murray Dublin of The Baltimore Sun described Sterling Heights as blue collar. The August 2006 issue of Money magazine listed Sterling Heights as No.19 on its list of the 90 Best Small Cities to live in. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has an area of 36.80 square miles. Sterling Heights is part of the Clinton River watershed, and branches of the flow through the city. Sterling Heights is 16 miles from Downtown Detroit, the shape of the city is 6 miles long and 6 miles wide. In 1991 Murray Dublin of The Baltimore Sun wrote that it is a city of subdivisions rather than ethnic neighborhoods, Sterling Heights experienced its first-ever mayoral primary in 2009. David Magliulo and Teresa Bil, signaled intentions to run against incumbent Mayor Richard J. Notte, in Sterling Heights, large areas are devoted to retail and commercial development. Mound Road is an important north-south artery in the city, east-west travel is mainly on the mile roads, those being 14 Mile Road on the south border through 20 Mile Road on the north border
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M-97 (Michigan highway)
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M-97 is a state trunkline highway in the U. S. state of Michigan. It runs from Detroit to north of Mt. Clemens following Groesbeck Highway, the highway starts south of 7 Mile Road and runs northeasterly through Macomb County suburbs to Hall Road, which takes the place of 20 Mile Road in the Mile Road System. In between the termini, Groesbeck Highway runs through residential and commercial areas. Groesbeck Highway is named after Alex Groesbeck, former Michigan governor, the road was constructed starting in the 1920s to provide traffic relief to Gratiot Avenue, which was the main route between Detroit and Mt. Clemens. It was created as a state trunkline to facilitate construction financing, the final extension was opened at a ribbon cutting ceremony in 1949. This ceremony also dedicated the entire roadway in the governors honor after sections were named for another politician by the state. M-97 runs through an area in the larger Metro Detroit. The highway starts at M-3/Gratiot Avenue and follows Gunston Street northwesterly and this intersection is one block northeast of the Coleman A. At McNichols Road, which part of 6 Mile Road in the Mile Road System, M-97 turns north on Hoover Street. It continues north on Hoover until it turns onto Groesbeck Highway, Groesbeck Highway runs northeast from Hoover Street crossing out of Wayne County into Macomb County at 8 Mile Road. The trunkline here is parallel to tracks through Warren. M-97 crosses Interstate 696 at an interchange located on the Warren–Roseville line and this interchange is also located at the 11 Mile Road location in the Mile Road System. M-97 crosses through the southeast corner of Fraser between 13 Mile and 14 Mile roads after which it enters Clinton Township, there is a major intersection with Metropolitan Parkway, which is a limited access county primary road that occupies the 16 Mile location Detroit Mile Road System. Between this intersection and Harrington Street, Groesbeck Highway curves around to the north, crossing the Clinton River, M-97 continues to curve around the west side of downtown Mt. Clemens before re-entering Clinton Township. Groesbeck Highway and M-97 ends at M-59/Hall Road, another limited access county primary road in Macomb County located in place of 20 Mile Road, the northern terminus is on the Clinton Township–Macomb Township line northwest of Selfridge Field, an Air National Guard facility on Lake St. Clair. The road continues north as a county known as North Avenue. The Macomb County Road Commission passed Resolution 15 on October 23,1925 and this resolution authorized the construction of a new roadway 1 mile west of Gratiot Avenue to relieve traffic traveling between Detroit and Mt. Clemens. The roadway was named in honor of Governor Groesbeck, a Macomb County native, while the county had difficulty funding the new highway, Groesbeck interceded to have it named a state-financed trunkline
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Mount Clemens, Michigan
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Mount Clemens is a city in the U. S. state of Michigan. The population was 16,314 at the 2010 census and it is the county seat of Macomb County. Mount Clemens was first surveyed in 1795 by Christian Clemens, who settled there four years later, Clemens and his friend, John Brooks, built a distillery, which helped settle the area. Brooks and Clemens platted the land, and the town was named after Clemens in 1818 and it received a post office in 1821, with John Stockton as the first postmaster. It filed for incorporation as a village in 1837, but it was not acted upon until 1851 and it was later incorporated as a city in 1879. Christian Clemens is buried at Clemens Park, located just north of downtown and it became the seat of Macomb County on March 11,1818. The Mount Clemens Public Library opened in 1865, historically, Mount Clemens largest industry was the mineral baths that were scattered throughout the city from 1873 until 1974. The city once encompassed 11 bathhouses and several hotels at its peak, the first bathhouse was built in 1873 and was known as “The Original” and was located on the corner of Jones and Water Street. The bathhouse remained until 1883 when the building burned, yet was rebuilt in 1884 and this last bath house is in danger of being demolished while the Friends of Historic Preservation are working with the city to preserve it. The Olympia Salon & Spa, located in the Martha Washington Sanitarium on Cass Ave, are rejuvenating the bath era by offering mineral baths once again. Throughout the late 20th Century, the expansion of Metropolitan Detroit. The Anton Art Center is a community gallery offering exhibitions of artwork by local, national and international artists and it is housed in a building that was financed by industrialist and philanthropist, Andrew Carnegie in 1904. The Mock Turtle Press as well as American Road Magazine are centered in Mount Clemens, rap/rock artist Kid Rock, who hails from nearby Romeo, began his professional stage career as a DJ/rapper in Mt. Clemens, and it was here that he earned his nickname. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has an area of 4.20 square miles. The Clinton River runs through the city, the city is almost completely surrounded by Clinton Township, except for the far east side which borders Harrison Township. As of the census of 2010, there were 16,314 people,6,714 households, the population density was 4,008.4 inhabitants per square mile. There were 7,582 housing units at a density of 1,862.9 per square mile. The racial makeup of the city was 70. 0% White,24. 8% African American,0. 3% Native American,0. 5% Asian,0. 8% from other races, hispanic or Latino of any race were 2. 9% of the population
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M-3 (Michigan highway)
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M-3 is a north–south state trunkline highway in the Detroit metropolitan area of the US state of Michigan. For most of its length, the trunkline is known as Gratiot Avenue /ˈɡræʃᵻt/, the trunkline starts in Downtown Detroit and runs through the city in a northeasterly direction along one of Detroits five major avenues. The highway passes several historic landmarks and through a historic district and it also connects residential neighborhoods on the citys east side with suburbs in Macomb County and downtown. Gratiot Avenue in Detroit was one of the original avenues laid out by Judge Augustus Woodward after the Detroit fire in 1805 and it was later used as a supply road for Fort Gratiot in Port Huron under authorization from the US Congress in the 1820s. The roadway was included in the State Trunkline Highway System in 1913, later, it was used as a segment of US Highway 25 before that highway was functionally replaced by Interstate 94 in the 1960s. The M-3 designation was applied to the current highway in 1973, and this intersection also serves as the termini for M-10 and Business Spur I-375. M-3 follows Randolph Street northward under the Detroit People Mover past Cadillac Square and this street is a boulevard setup with four lanes divided with a median or center turn lane. Gratiot Avenue runs northeasterly through downtown, past Ford Field, near the stadium, the street passes over I-375 without any direct connections. Gratiot continues past the freeway on the citys east side, bordering residential neighborhoods along the way, through this area, it had a continuous center turn lane, losing the grassy median it had in places downtown. The highway intersects Grand Boulevard near Dueweke Park, and at Van Dyke Avenue, Gratiot Avenue crosses I-94 at the latters exit 219 near the Coleman A. Young International Airport and an adjacent industrial area, past the airport, Gratiot Avenue once again runs through residential neighborhoods while being immediately bordered by commercial properties. The southern end of M-97 is at the intersection between Gratiot and Gunston avenues just northeast of the Outer Drive junction by the airport, the trunkline passes the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Church near a branch location of the Detroit Public Library at McNichols Street. Just before crossing M-102, Gratiot Avenue widens back to a boulevard and this intersection marks the transition from Detroit and Wayne County to Eastpointe in Macomb County. In Macomb County, M-3 follows a boulevard setup complete with Michigan lefts at the intersections in the suburbs of Detroit. There are a series of commercial properties between 10 Mile Road and I-696 that includes the Eastgate Shopping Center in Roseville, the missing connections are possible through the adjacent interchange for Little Mack Avenue on I-94 which also connects to 13 Mile Road and Gratiot Avenue. North of 14 Mile Road, M-3 crosses into Clinton Charter Township next to the Hebrew Memorial Park, north of the intersection with Metropolitan Parkway, Gratiot Avenue splits into a one-way pairing of Northbound and Southbound Gratiot avenues as it crosses into Mount Clemens near the Clinton River. The two separate streets are one, two, or even three blocks apart through the downtown area. North of the Patterson Street intersections, the two streets cross back into Clinton Township and merge back together in four-lane street with a turn lane
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Interstate 94 in Michigan
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Interstate 94 is a part of the Interstate Highway System that runs from Billings, Montana, to the Lower Peninsula of the US state of Michigan. In Michigan, it is a state highway that enters the state south of New Buffalo. Joseph near Lake Michigan before turning inland toward Kalamazoo and Battle Creek on the west side of the peninsula, heading farther east, I-94 passes through rural areas in the middle of the southern Lower Peninsula, crossing I-69 in the process. I-94 then runs through Jackson, Ann Arbor, and portions of Metro Detroit, past the east side of Detroit, the Interstate angles northeasterly through farmlands in The Thumb to Port Huron, where the designation terminates on the Blue Water Bridge at the Canadian border. The first segment of what later became I-94 within the state and this expressway was initially numbered M-112. In the mid-1950s, state and federal officials planned an Interstate to replace the route of U. S. Highway 12. By 1960, the length of I-94 was completed from Detroit to New Buffalo, two years later, the US12 designation was dropped from the freeway. Subsequent extensions in the 1960s completed most of the rest of the route, the last segment opened to the public in 1972 when Indiana completed its connection across the state line. The highway has one route, I-194, which serves downtown Battle Creek. Various segments have been dedicated to people and places. The entire length of I-94 is listed on the National Highway System, a network of important to the countrys economy, defense. As the state trunkline highway closest to the shore in these areas. Joseph and the Lake Huron Circle Tour in the Port Huron area, sections through the Detroit area are named the Detroit Industrial and Edsel Ford freeways. I-94 in the state is either a four- or six-lane freeway for most of its length, I-94 enters Michigan from Indiana south of New Buffalo. The freeway runs northeasterly through rural Michiana farmland in the corner of the Lower Peninsula. I-94 traverses an area just east of the Warren Dunes State Park as the freeway runs parallel to the Red Arrow Highway, the freeway crosses its companion highway south of St. Joseph, Red Arrow turns northward carrying the business loop for Benton Harbor and St. Joseph. The Interstate curves further inland to bridge the St. Joseph River near Riverview Park, East of Benton Harbor, I-94 meets the Napier Avenue interchange, where US31 merges onto the freeway. East of the Southwest Michigan Regional Airport, I-94/US31 meets the end of I-196, US31 departs the I-94 freeway to follow I-196
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Metro Beach Metropark
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Lake St. Clair Metropark has been in existence since 1950 and has seen many changes since then. Originally named St. Clair Metropolitan Beach, it was renamed in 1953 to Metropolitan Beach Metropark, on December 8,2011, the Board of Commissioners for the Huron-Clinton Metroparks approved changing the name to Lake St. Clair Metropark. The park is located at Jefferson Avenue and Metropolitan Parkway and there are signs to Lake St. Clair Metropark on Interstate 94, due to sewage overflows, Metro Beach has seen occasional closures caused by high E. coli content in the water. The beach was closed for nine days in 2009 for this reason, the main attractions at Lake St. Clair Metropark are the 1,000 foot-long Metro Beach, which still retains the old name, on Lake St. A paved, one mile trail follows the Lake St. Clair shoreline in the park. Ice-fishing, cross-country skiing on groomed trails, and ice skating are some of the winter activities Metro Beach has to offer, the point that extends into Lake St. Clair was originally an island. On a clear day, the Nine Mile Tower and the Renaissance Center in Detroit are visible over Lake St. Clair, despite being in a suburban area, there are deer that live within Lake St. Clair Metropark like many other areas in Metro Detroit. Huron-Clinton Metroparks Lake St. Clair Metropark web site, including a park map
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Metro Detroit
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The Detroit metropolitan area, often referred to as Metro Detroit, is a major metropolitan area in Southeast Michigan, consisting of the city of Detroit and its surrounding area. There are several definitions of the area, including the official statistical areas designated by the Office of Management and Budget, Metro Detroit is known for its automotive heritage, arts, entertainment, popular music, and sports. The area includes a variety of landscapes, parks, and beaches. It is one of the nations largest metropolitan economies, with seventeen Fortune 500 companies and this urbanized area covers parts of the counties of Macomb, Oakland, and Wayne. These counties are referred to as the Detroit Tri-County Area and had a population of 3,862,888 as of the 2010 census with an area of 1,967.1 square miles. As of the 2010 census, the MSA had a population of 4,296,250 with an area of 3,913 square miles. It had a population of 5,318,744 as of the 2010 census, lenawee County was removed from the CSA in 2000, but added back in 2013. With the adjacent city of Windsor, Ontario and its suburbs, when the nearby Toledo metropolitan area and its commuters are taken into account, the region constitutes a much larger population center. An estimated 46 million people live within a 300-mile radius of Detroit proper, Metro Detroit is at the center of an emerging Great Lakes Megalopolis. Detroit and the region constitute a major center of commerce and global trade, most notably as home to Americas Big Three automobile companies, General Motors, Ford. Detroits six-county Metropolitan Statistical Area has a population of about 4.3 million, in May 2012, the Department of Labor reported metropolitan Detroits unemployment rate at 9. 9%. The Detroit MSA had a Gross Metropolitan Product of $197.7 billion in 2010, firms in the region pursue emerging technologies including biotechnology, nanotechnology, information technology, and hydrogen fuel cell development. Metro Detroit is one of the health care economies in the U. S. according to a 2003 study measuring health care industry components. Casino gaming plays an important economic role, with Detroit the largest US city to offer casino resort hotels, caesars Windsor, Canadas largest, complements the MGM Grand Detroit, MotorCity Casino, and Greektown Casino in the city. The casino hotels contribute significant tax revenue along with thousands of jobs for residents, gaming revenues have grown steadily, with Detroit ranked as the fifth largest gambling market in the United States for 2007. When Casino Windsor is included, Detroits gambling market ranks either third or fourth, there are about four thousand factories in the area. The domestic auto industry is headquartered in Metro Detroit. The area is also an important source of engineering job opportunities, a 2004 Border Transportation Partnership study showed that 150,000 jobs in the Detroit–Windsor region and $13 billion in annual production depend on the citys international border crossing
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Bloomfield Township, Oakland County, Michigan
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Bloomfield Township is a charter township of Oakland County in the U. S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the population was 41,070. This area often referred to simply as Bloomfield by residents and visitors alike and this Metro Detroit township was organized in 1827, the first township to be established in Oakland County. It almost completely surrounds the city of Bloomfield Hills, in 2010, Bloomfield Township was ranked the most expensive community in which to live in the state of Michigan. The main branch of the Rouge River rises in Bloomfield Township in Oakland County, the Township has no incorporated villages and multiple unincorporated communities, Charing Cross is located at Kensington and Charing Crossing Roads and previous had a railroad station. Cirlcle had a post office from 1894 until 1902, oak Grove is located on the boundary with Auburn Hills on South Blvd between Opdyke Road and I-75. According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has an area of 26.0 square miles, of which 25.0 square miles is land and 1.1 square miles. The population density was 1,724.5 per square mile, there were 17,455 housing units at an average density of 699.7 per square mile. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1. 38% of the population,21. 6% of all households were made up of individuals and 9. 3% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.53 and the family size was 2.97. In the township the population was out with 23. 8% under the age of 18,4. 2% from 18 to 24,21. 7% from 25 to 44,32. 5% from 45 to 64. The median age was 45 years, for every 100 females there were 94.1 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 91.2 males, the median income for a household in the township was $103,897, and the median income for a family was $123,381. Males had an income of $98,985 versus $50,540 for females. The per capita income for the township was $62,716, about 1. 2% of families and 2. 5% of the population were below the poverty line, including 3. 0% of those under age 18 and 3. 1% of those age 65 or over. Oakland Hills Country Club in Bloomfield Township has been host to a number of professional golf events. Opens and the 2004 Ryder Cup, coaches based at the DSC include Yuka Sato, Jason Dungjen, Anjelika Krylova, Pasquale Camerlengo, Massimo Scali, Elizabeth Punsalan, Natalia Annenko-Deller. Another portion is in the Pontiac School District, the sole BHSD district comprehensive high school is Bloomfield Hills High School in Bloomfield Township, formed in 2013 by the mergers of Andover High School and Lahser High School
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Birmingham, Michigan
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Birmingham is a city in Oakland County of the U. S. state of Michigan and a suburb of Detroit. As of the 2010 census, the population was 20,103, the area comprising what is now the city of Birmingham was part of land ceded by Native American tribes to the United States government by the 1807 Treaty of Detroit. Tiffins report claimed that There would not be an out of a hundred, if there would be one out of a thousand that would, in any case. In 1818, Territorial Governor Lewis Cass led a group of men along the Indian Trail, the governors party discovered that the swamp was not as extensive as Tiffin had supposed. Not long after Cass issued a more encouraging report about the land, the earliest land entry was made on January 28,1819, by Colonel Benjamin Kendrick Pierce for the northwest quarter of section 36. Colonel Pierce visited his land several times, but never settled on it, in March 1818, John W. Hunter and his brother Daniel left Auburn, New York, by sleigh and traveled to Michigan by way of Upper Canada. They waited in Detroit for their father and other members who arrived by schooner over Lake Erie in July. The family remained in Detroit until spring 1819 when John W. made an entry for the northeast quarter of section 36, lacking a proper land survey, John W. mistakenly built his log house on a tract later purchased by Elijah Willets. That house was occupied by William Hall, a son-in-law of Elisha Hunter. On September 25,1821, Elijah Willets made an entry for the southwest quarter of section 25. Two days later, Major John Hamilton made an entry for the southeast quarter of section 25, each of these initial land entries met at what is now the intersection of Maple Road and Pierce Street. For a time, all three men, John W. Hunter, Major Hamilton, and Elijah Willets, operated hotels, the growing settlement was known variously as Hamiltons, Hunters, or Willets, it was later known as Piety Hill. The settlements original plat was surveyed and recorded on August 25,1836, Merrill who also ran the town foundry and the thrashing machine factory. Merrill named his plat Birmingham after Birmingham, England, in the hope that the new settlement would become a great industrial center. Elijah Willets recorded a plat on his property on December 20,1837, John W. Hunter followed suit with two plats on his property on January 31,1840, and June 21,1842, while Major Hamilton laid out a plat on October 7,1846. Several other properties were subsequently platted as additions, the plats made in 1836 and 1837 were in anticipation of completion of the Detroit and Pontiac Railroad. Now known as Birmingham, the village first received mail through the Bloomfield post office, Birmingham established its own post office on April 5,1838. The settlement incorporated as a village in 1864, comprising the northern half of section 36, the first village elections were held March 1,1864, and it was soon governed by a seven-man board of trustees who appointed a marshal and a treasurer
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West Bloomfield Township, Michigan
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West Bloomfield Township is a charter township in Oakland County in the U. S. state of Michigan, within the Detroit metropolitan area. As of the 2010 census, the township had a population of 64,690, the area is known throughout metro Detroit for its large homes, nature areas, and large Jewish population. Westacres is an Unincorporated community in the Township at Keith and Commerce Roads, on April 22,1833, Bloomfield Township was divided in two, and the western portion was called West Bloomfield. The area was spotted with apple orchards throughout much of the 1800s, in fact, the plentiful apple trees located on an island in one lake led to the naming of the body of water as Orchard Lake, and the aforementioned island as Apple Island. West Bloomfield is sometimes referred to by its residents as the township of Oakland County, being heavily dotted with small. In addition, directly west of Pine Lake is Orchard Lake, Orchard Lake is surrounded by the city of Orchard Lake Village. Several smaller lakes are scattered around larger ones. There are many high-end boutique stores and expensive restaurants to visit, most of the townships population growth has occurred since the 1960s, as many residents moved there from the inner ring Detroit suburbs. The communities of West Bloomfield, Orchard Lake Village, Keego Harbor, and Sylvan Lake make up what is known as Greater West Bloomfield. According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has an area of 31.2 square miles, of which 27.3 square miles is land and 3.9 square miles. West Bloomfield High School, the Frankel Jewish Academy of Metropolitan Detroit, the West Bloomfield Township Public Library serves West Bloomfield. In 1999 this library and the Awaji City Library in Awaji, Hyogo, as of the census of 2010, there were 64,690 people,24,411 households, and 18,040 families residing in the township. The population density was 2,374.3 per square mile, there were 24,410 housing units at an average density of 893.6 per square mile. The racial makeup of the township was 77. 6% White,11. 4% Black or African American,0. 1% Native American,8. 4% Asian,0. 02% Pacific Islander,0. 4% from other races, and 2. 0% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1. 60% of the population, as of the census of 2000, there were 64,860 people,23,414 households, and 18,192 families residing in the township. The population density was 2,374.3 per square mile, there were 24,410 housing units at an average density of 893.6 per square mile. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1. 40% of the population,19. 4% of all households were made up of individuals and 7. 5% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.74 and the family size was 3.17
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Milford Township, Michigan
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Milford Township is a charter township of Oakland County in the U. S. state of Michigan. The population was 15,736 at the 2010 census, the village of Milford is located within the township. According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has an area of 35.2 square miles, of which 33.3 square miles is land and 1.9 square miles. As of the census of 2000, there were 15,271 people,5,470 households, the population density was 458.6 per square mile. There were 5,650 housing units at a density of 169.7 per square mile. The racial makeup of the township was 97. 47% White,0. 43% African American,0. 28% Native American,0. 46% Asian,0. 29% from other races, hispanic or Latino of any race were 1. 19% of the population. 18. 4% of all households were made up of individuals and 5. 9% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older, the average household size was 2.76 and the average family size was 3.15. In the township the population was out with 28. 5% under the age of 18,6. 2% from 18 to 24,30. 7% from 25 to 44,25. 4% from 45 to 64. The median age was 37 years, for every 100 females there were 96.3 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 90.9 males, the median income for a household in the township was $67,672, and the median income for a family was $78,463. Males had an income of $60,075 versus $32,619 for females. The per capita income for the township was $29,913, about 3. 8% of families and 5. 3% of the population were below the poverty line, including 7. 3% of those under age 18 and 2. 0% of those age 65 or over
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Macomb County, Michigan
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Macomb County is a county located in the eastern portion of the U. S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the population was 840,978, of Michigans five largest counties, Macomb experienced the most population growth between 2000 and 2010. The county seat is Mt. Clemens, Macomb County is part of the Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI Metropolitan Statistical Area. The city of Detroit is located south of 8 Mile Road, Macomb County contains 27 cities, townships and villages, including three of the top ten most populous municipalities in Michigan as of the 2010 census, Warren, Sterling Heights and Clinton Township. Most of this population is concentrated south of Hall Road, one of the main thoroughfares. The Ojibwe lived in the centuries before European contact. The first European explorers arrived in the area during the 17th century, a Moravian colony was established in the county in the late 18th century. They included French fur trappers and missionaries, in addition to the original French and English, later settlers included Germans, Belgians and others who came directly from Europe. In the 19th century the county received many American migrants from New York and New England who were attracted to the area for land, Macomb County was formally organized on January 15,1818 as the third county in the Michigan territory. At that time, it covered a larger area than it does today. In 1819 and 1820, large portions of the county were removed to form the counties of Oakland, Lapeer, Genesee, in May 2008, Macomb County voters approved the inclusion of a County Executive in a new charter to be submitted to the voters by 2010. A charter commission was elected in November 2008 for the purpose of drafting a charter for submission to Governor Granholm, the Charter passed with a 60. 4% to 39. 6% margin. Mark Hackel was voted in as Macombs first county executive, according to the U. S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 571 square miles, of which 479 square miles is land and 92 square miles is water. The countys southeastern border with Canada is located across Lake St. Clair, Lake St. Clair borders the county on the east. Far northern parts of the county, such as Richmond and Armada, are considered to be part of Michigans Thumb region. Lambton County, Ontario, Canada - southeast St.85. 4% were White,8. 6% Black or African American,3. 0% Asian,0. 3% Native American,0. 6% of some other race and 2. 1% of two or more races. 14. 8% were of German,14. 3% Polish,11. 1% Italian,6. 5% Irish and 5. 9% American ancestry. In 2000,87. 6% of county residents spoke only English at home,1. 7% spoke Italian,1. 4% Polish,1. 2% Spanish,1. 1% Arabic and 1. 1% Syriac
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Oakland County, Michigan
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Oakland County is a county in the U. S. state of Michigan, northwest of the Detroit metropolitan area. As of the 2010 census, its population was 1,202,362, making it the second-most populous county in Michigan, the county was founded in 1819 and organized in 1820. Oakland County is composed of 61 cities, townships and villages, the city of Detroit is in neighboring Wayne County, south of 8 Mile Road. Oakland County is among the ten highest income counties in the United States with populations over one million people and it is also home to Oakland University, a large public institution that straddles the Auburn Hills and Rochester Hills border. The countys knowledge-based economic initiative, coined Automation Alley, has developed one of the largest employment centers for engineering, but Oakland County has shared in the recent economic hardships brought on by troubles at General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler. It has fared better than Detroit and Flint, as its economy is more diverse, all three automotive companies are major employers within southeast Michigan and have a significant presence within Oakland County. Founded by Territorial Governor Lewis Cass in 1819, sparsely settled Oakland was originally twice its current size, as was customary at the time, as populations increased, other counties were organized from its land area. Woodward Avenue and the Detroit and Pontiac Railroad helped draw settlers in the 1840s, by 1840, Oakland had more than fifty lumber mills, processing wood harvested from the region and the Upper Peninsula. Pontiac, located on the Clinton River, was Oaklands first town, after the Civil War, Oakland was still primarily a rural, agricultural county with numerous isolated villages. By the end of the 19th century, three lines served Pontiac, and the city attracted carriage and wagon factories. In the late 1890s streetcars were constructed here and to Detroit, at that time, developers made southern Oakland County a suburb of Detroit, a Cincinnati firm platted a section of Royal Oak called Urbanrest. Several thousand people moved from Oakland County farms to Detroit as the city attracted factories, by 1910, a number of rich Detroiters had summer homes and some year-round residences in what became Bloomfield Hills. The auto age enveloped Pontiac in the early 1900s, the Oakland Motor Car Company was founded in 1907 and became a part of General Motors Corp. which was soon Pontiacs dominant firm. In the 1950s, the Detroit metropolitan population began migrating to the suburbs, aided by the GI Bill for veterans, Oakland County is among the ten highest-income counties in the United States with more than one million population. The median price of a home in Oakland County increased to $164,697, Oakland County is home to popular super-regional shopping malls such as Somerset Collection, Twelve Oaks Mall, and Great Lakes Crossing Outlets. According to the U. S. Census Bureau, the county has an area of 907 square miles. Oakland County was originally divided into 25 separate townships, which are listed below, each township is roughly equal in size at six miles by six miles, for a total township area of 36 square miles. The roots of design were born out of the Land Ordinance of 1785
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Roads and freeways in metropolitan Detroit
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The roads and freeways in metropolitan Detroit comprise the main thoroughfares in the region. The freeways consist of a network of interconnecting freeways which include Interstate highways. The Metro Detroit regions extensive toll-free freeway system, together with its status as a port city. There are no roads in Michigan. Detroiters may refer to freeways by the name more often where one has been designated rather than route number. Other freeways without formal names are known by the number such as I‑275, M‑53, while not officially designated may be locally referred to by its name Van Dyke. Detroit area freeways are typically sunken below ground level to local traffic to pass over the freeway. Following a historic fire in 1805, Judge Augustus B. Woodward devised a similar to Pierre Charles LEnfants design for Washington. The Woodward plan proposed a system of hexagonal street blocks, with the Grand Circus at its center, wide avenues, alternatively 200 feet and 120 feet, would emanate from large circular plazas like spokes from the hub of a wheel. As the city grew these would spread in all directions from the banks of the Detroit River, when Woodward presented his proposal, Detroit had fewer than 1,000 residents. Elements of the plan were implemented, most prominent of these are the five main spokes of Woodward, Michigan, Gratiot, Grand River and Jefferson Avenues. The Mile Road System in Metro Detroit and Southeast Michigan facilitates ease of navigation in the region and it was established as a way to delineate east–west roads through the Detroit area and the surrounding rural rim. In Southeast Michigan, many roads would be developed parallel to the line and the meridian. As Detroit grew, several Mile Roads were given new names within the city borders and it is unclear if they ever bore mile numbers formally. The baseline used in the survey of Michigan lands runs along 8 Mile Road, as a result, the direct east–west portion of Michigan Avenue, and M‑153 west of Wyoming Avenue, forms the zero mile baseline for this mile road system. The precise point of origin is located in Campus Martius Park and it is situated in the western point of the diamond surrounding Woodward Fountain, just in front of the Fountain Bistro. I-94 runs east-west through Detroit and serves Ann Arbor to the west, the stretch of the current I‑94 freeway from Ypsilanti to Detroit was one of Americas earlier limited-access highways. Henry Ford built it to link his factories at Willow Run and it also serves the North Access to the Detroit Metro Airport in Romulus
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Downtown
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Downtown is a term primarily used in North America by English speakers to refer to a citys core or central business district, often in a geographical or commercial sense. The term is not generally used in British English, whose speakers use the term city centre. The term downtown is thought to have been coined in New York City, uptown also spread, but to a much lesser extent. In both cases, though, the directionality of both words was lost, so that a Bostonian might refer to going downtown, even though it was north of where they were. Downtown lay to the south in Detroit, but to the north in Cleveland, to the east in St. Louis, in Boston, a resident pointed out in 1880, downtown was in the center of the city. Uptown was north of downtown in Cincinnati, but south of downtown in New Orleans, notably, downtown was not included in dictionaries as late as the 1880s. It was the location of the department stores and hotels, as well as the theatres, clubs, cabarets, and dance halls. It was also frequently, at first, the part of a city that was electrified. It was also the place where street congestion was the worst, but most of all, downtown was the place where the city did its business. Inside its small precincts, sometimes as small as several hundred acres, the majority of the trading, selling, there were hubs of business in other places around the city and its environs, but the downtown area was the chief one, truly the central business district. And as more and more business was done downtown, those who had their homes there were gradually pushed out, selling their property, the skyscraper would become the hallmark of the downtown area. What limited them then was the thickness of the masonry needed at the base to hold the weight of the building above it. As the buildings got taller, the thickness of the masonry, although first used in Chicago, the steel-framed skyscraper caught on most quickly in New York City in the 1880s, and from there spread to most other American cities in the 1890s and 1900s. In the short run, the proponents of height limits were successful in their efforts, what was worse, at least to real estate interests, the building dumped 1.2 million square feet of office space on what was a sluggish real estate market. To many in the real estate industry, the law was an example of a reasonable restriction. This was the time when the central business district began to appear as more-or-less synonymous with the downtown area. The phrase acknowledged the existence of business districts in the city. Real estate interests were concerned about the tendency of downtown to move because the downtown area had by far the highest land values in each city
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69 (sex position)
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The participants are thus mutually inverted like the numerals 6 and 9 in the number 69, hence the name. This position can involve any combination of genders, variations of the 69 positions include mutual anilingus or double rimming, and digital penetration of either partners anus or vagina. In these positions, the partners are said to experience sexual stimulation simultaneously, the position can also be awkward for partners who are not similar in height. Mutual simultaneous oragenitalism is usually referred to in English under the euphemistic French numerical form, “soixante-neuf. ”… The ancient Chinese Yin and Yang symbol is identical. … The term “soixante-neuf” has not been traced any earlier than certain Whore’s Catechisms published in the 1790s in France, usually attributed to the … early leader of the French Revolution, dr. Vorberg gives this … to be of the period of the Roman Caesars …. However, another oil-lamp of the kind, showing the sixty-nine almost identically … is more recently reproduced as a full-color plate. Jean Marcadé’s Eros Kalos, facing page 58, in … lamps preserved in the Heracleion Museum in Greece. … this sculptured fragment … is both discussed and illustrated in Richard Payne Knight’s A Discourse on the Worship of Priapus, privately issued for the Dilettanti Society of London in 1786 …. The illustration in question is a detail engraving given in Payne Knight’s plate XI, oragenitalism, Oral Techniques in Genital Excitation. New York, The Julian Press Inc
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Pubic hair
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Pubic hair is part of a persons body hair and a secondary sex characteristic. Many cultures regard pubic hair to be erotic, and in most cultures pubic hair is associated with genitalia, in some cultures, it is the norm for pubic hair to be removed, especially of females, a practice which is regarded as part of personal hygiene. In other cultures, the exposure of pubic hair may be regarded as unaesthetic or embarrassing, the Tanner scale looks at the development of pubic hair. Before the onset of puberty, the area of both boys and girls has very fine vellus hair, referred to as Tanner stage 1 hair. The onset of pubic hair development is termed pubarche, the change for each hair follicle is relatively abrupt, but the extent of skin which grows androgenic hair gradually increases over several years. In males, the first pubic hair appears as a few sparse hairs that are thin on the scrotum or at the upper base of the penis. Within a year, hairs around the base of the penis are numerous, within 3 to 4 years, hair fills the pubic area and becomes much thicker and darker, and by 5 years extends to the near thighs and upwards on the abdomen toward the umbilicus. Other areas of the skin are similarly, though slightly less, sensitive to androgens, although generally considered part of the process of puberty, pubarche is distinct and independent of the process of maturation of the gonads that leads to sexual maturation and fertility. Pubic hair can develop from adrenal androgens alone, and can develop even when the ovaries or testes are defective, there is little if any difference in the capacity of male and female bodies to grow hair in response to androgens. The obvious sex-dimorphic difference in distribution in men and women is primarily a result of differences in the levels of androgen reached as maturity occurs. Pubic hair and axillary hair can vary in color considerably from the hair of the scalp, in most people it is darker, although it can also be lighter. In most cases it is most similar in color to the eyebrows of the individual, Hair texture varies from tightly curled to entirely straight, not necessarily correlating to the texture of the scalp hair. Pubic hair patterns can vary by race and ethnicity, patterns of pubic hair, known as the escutcheon, vary between sexes. On most women, the patch is triangular and lies over the vulva. On many men, the pubic patch tapers upwards to a line of hair pointing towards the navel, as with axillary hair, pubic hair is associated with a concentration of sebaceous glands in the area. Among the upper class in 18th century pre-Victorian Britain, pubic hair from ones lover was frequently collected as a souvenir, the curls were, for instance, worn like cockades in mens hats as potency talismans, or exchanged among lovers as tokens of affection. In Western societies, after the spread of Christianity, public exposure of a bare skin between the ankle and waist started to be disapproved of culturally. Many people came to public exposure of pubic hair to be embarrassing
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At-grade intersection
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An intersection is an at-grade junction where two or more roads meet or cross. Intersections may be classified by number of segments, traffic controls. This article primarily reflects practice in jurisdictions where vehicles are driven on the right, if not otherwise specified, right and left can be reversed to reflect jurisdictions where vehicles are driven on the left. One way to classify intersections is by the number of segments that are involved. A three-way intersection is a junction between three segments, a T junction when two arms form one road, or a Y junction – the latter also known as a fork if approached from the stem of the Y. A four-way intersection, or crossroads, usually involves a crossing over of two streets or roads, in areas where there are blocks and in some other cases, the crossing streets or roads are perpendicular to each other. However, two roads may cross at a different angle, in a few cases, the junction of two road segments may be offset from each when reaching an intersection, even though both ends may be considered the same street. Five-way intersections are common but still exist, especially in urban areas with non-rectangular blocks. An example of this is the intersection for which the Five Points district in Atlanta is named, Seven or more approaches to a single intersection, such as at Seven Dials, London, are rare. Another way of classifying intersections is by traffic control technology, Uncontrolled intersections, for traffic coming from the same or opposite direction, that which goes straight has priority over that which turns off. Yield-controlled intersections may or may not have specific YIELD signs, stop-controlled intersections have one or more STOP signs. Two-way stops are common, while some countries also employ four-way stops, signal-controlled intersections depend on traffic signals, usually electric, which indicate which traffic is allowed to proceed at any particular time. A traffic circle is a type of intersection at which traffic streams are directed around a circle, types of traffic circles include roundabouts, mini-roundabouts, rotaries, STOP-controlled circles, and signal-controlled circles. Some people consider roundabouts to be a type of intersection from traffic circles. A box junction can be added to an intersection, generally prohibiting entry to the intersection unless the exit is clear, some intersections employ indirect left turns to increase capacity and reduce delays. The Michigan left combines a right turn and a U-turn, jughandle lefts diverge to the right, then curve to the left, converting a left turn to a crossing maneuver, similar to throughabouts. These techniques are used in conjunction with signal-controlled intersections, although they may also be used at stop-controlled intersections. A roundabout and its variants like turbo roundabouts, bowties and distributing circles like traffic circles, at intersections, turns are usually allowed, but often regulated to avoid interference with other traffic
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Detroit Free Press
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The Detroit Free Press is the largest daily newspaper in Detroit, Michigan, USA. The Sunday edition is entitled the Sunday Free Press and it is sometimes informally referred to as the Freep. It primarily serves Wayne, Oakland, Macomb, Livingston, Washtenaw, the Free Press is also the largest city newspaper owned by Gannett, which also publishes USA Today. The Free Press has received ten Pulitzer Prizes and four Emmy Awards and its motto is On Guard Since 1831. The newspaper was begun by John R. Williams and his uncle, Joseph Campau, the first issues were printed on a Washington press purchased from the discontinued Oakland Chronicle of Pontiac, Michigan. It was hauled from Pontiac in a wagon over rough roads to a building at Bates, the press could produce 250 pages an hour, hand operated by two men. The first issues were 14 by 20 inches in size, with five columns of type, Sheldon McKnight became the first publisher with John Pitts Sheldon as editor. In the 1850s, the paper was developed into a leading Democratic publication under the ownership of Wilbur F. Storey, Storey left for the Chicago Times in 1861, taking a lot of the staff with him. In the 1870s ownership passed to William E. Quinby, who continued its Democratic leanings and established a London, in 1940, the Knight Newspapers purchased the Free Press. During the following 47 years the Free Press competed with The Detroit News, the Free Press was delivered and sold as a morning paper while the News was sold and delivered as an evening newspaper. In 1987, the paper entered into a one hundred-year joint operating agreement with its rival, the combined company is called the Detroit Media Partnership. The two papers began to publish joint Saturday and Sunday editions, though the editorial content of each remained separate. At the time, the Detroit Free Press was the tenth highest circulation paper in the United States, july 13,1995, Newspaper Guild-represented employees of the Free Press and News and the pressmen, printers and Teamsters working for the Detroit Newspapers distribution arm went on strike. By October, about 40% of the staffers had crossed the picket line. The strike was resolved in three years later, and the unions remain active at the paper, representing a majority of the employees under their jurisdiction. In 1998, the Free Press vacated its headquarters in downtown Detroit. August 3,2005, Knight Ridder sold the Free Press to the Gannett company, the News, in turn, was sold to MediaNews Group, Gannett continues to be the managing partner in the papers joint operating agreement. The Free Press resumed publication of its own Sunday edition, May 7,2006, a quirk in the operating agreement, however, allows the News to continue printing its editorial page in the Sunday Free Press
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U.S. Route 12 in Michigan
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US Highway 12 is an east–west US Highway that runs from Aberdeen, Washington, to Detroit, Michigan. In Michigan it runs for 210 miles between New Buffalo and Detroit as a state highway and Pure Michigan Byway. On its western end, the highway is mostly a two-lane road that runs through the southern tier of counties roughly parallel to the Indiana state line, in between Coldwater and the Ann Arbor area, the highway angles northeasterly and passes the Michigan International Speedway. East of Ypsilanti, US12 follows a divided highway routing on Michigan Avenue into Detroit, when US12 was designated in Michigan on November 11,1926, along with the other original US Highways, it ran along a more northerly course. It entered from Indiana as it now, but it followed the Lake Michigan shoreline farther north to Benton Harbor–St. Joseph before turning eastward to run through Kalamazoo, Battle Creek, in the Ann Arbor area, it followed a more northerly path into Detroit before terminating downtown. In the 1940s and 1950s, sections of the highway were converted into expressways and freeways, starting in 1959, these freeway segments were renumbered as part of I-94, and in January 1962, US12 was shifted to replace US Highway 112. That highway, when it was designated in 1926 replaced the original M-23 along the Chicago Road, later, US112 replaced the first M-151 when the former was extended to New Buffalo in the mid-1930s. Since 1962, the highway has remained unchanged aside from minor truncations in the city of Detroit. US112 previously had two loops, both of which were renumbered Business US12 in 1962. In 2010, the Niles business loop was decommissioned, but the one in Ypsilanti remains, one section of the former US112 was renumbered US 112S for a few years in the 1930s. Between the state line near Michiana and the interchange with I-94 near New Buffalo, the full length of the highway in the state is also a Pure Michigan Historic Byway. Outside of the cities, most of US12 is a rural. One section runs concurrently with I-94 south of Ypsilanti, from there eastward, the US12 is a divided highway and then a boulevard into the Detroit area. The entire length of the highway east of Coldwater is listed on the National Highway System, a network of important to the USs economy, defense. US12 enters the state of Michigan southwest of New Buffalo near the town of Michiana, US12 intersects I-94 less than a mile east of this turn and continues due east along Pulaski Highway through rural farmland. The highway is the main east–west street as it crosses through Three Oaks in southern Berrien County, east of Galien, the highway dips southward around Dayton Lake before passing south of Buchanan. The highway continues eastward, intersecting US31 near Niles, east of that freeway, US12 expands into an expressway as the Niles Bypass
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M-5 (Michigan highway)
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M-5, commonly referred to as Grand River Avenue and the northern section as the Haggerty Connector, is a 20. 807-mile-long state trunkline highway in the Metro Detroit area of the US state of Michigan. The highway runs through suburbs in Oakland and Wayne counties in addition to part of Detroit itself and it starts in Commerce Township as a north–south divided highway and freeway called the Haggerty Connector and connects with Interstate 96 in Novi. The freeway then turns southeasterly to bypass the suburb of Farmington as an east–west highway, the freeway ends on the southeast side of Farmington, and M-5 follows Grand River Avenue as boulevard into Detroit. The eastern terminus is at an interchange with I-96 in Detroit, the trunkline passes between suburban residential subdivisions and along urban commercial areas while serving 17, 200–68,800 vehicles on average each day. Grand River Avenue started as the path of a wagon trail in the Michigan Territory. It was later a road that helped to connect Detroit with the state capital of Lansing. When the state system was signed in 1919, the avenue was numbered as part of M-16. Later it became US Highway 16, in the 1990s another section of freeway, which was originally proposed for a northern extension of I-275, was opened. This freeway called the Haggerty Connector was added to M-5, additional projects have extended the highway farther north and added a roundabout to the northern terminus. A different highway was previously designated M-5 in another area of the state in the 1930s, M-5 starts at a roundabout intersection with Pontiac Trail in Commerce Township. It runs south-southwesterly from here in Oakland County as a highway between suburban residential subdivisions in the township. South of Maple Road, the highway is bordered by commercial developments to the east, between 14 and 13 Mile roads, the highway is once again bounded by subdivisions. Along this part of the trunkline, access to the road is limited to major intersections only, immediately south of the 13 Mile Road intersection, M-5s median widens out as the highway transitions to a full freeway called the Haggerty Connector. Traffic can only access the highway at grade-separated interchanges instead of at-grade intersections, through this interchange complex that straddles the Novi–Farmington Hills city line, M-5 turns to the southeast, and signage changes direction. The Haggerty Connector is signed north–south, while the rest of M-5 is signed east–west, M-5 has direct connections with ramps to I-696 and I-96 east/I-275 south as it crosses over into Farmington Hills. The next interchange for the M-5 freeway connects to Grand River Avenue and 10 Mile Road and this section of the freeway bypasses residential areas of Farmington Hills. Further east, M-5 crosses into Farmington where it bypasses the area of the suburb. Past 9 Mile Road, the ends at the intersection with Grand River Avenue, and M-5 follows Grand River southeasterly as a boulevard
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U.S. Route 16 in Michigan
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US Highway 16, also called Grand River Avenue for much of its length in the state, was one of the principal pre-Interstate roads in the state of Michigan. Before the creation of the United States Numbered Highway System in 1926, the modern route of Grand River Avenue cuts across the Lower Peninsula in a northwest–southeast fashion from near Grand Rapids to Detroit. Before the late 1950s and early 1960s, US16 followed other roads between Muskegon and Grand Rapids, and then Grand River Avenue through Lansing to Detroit. In the years preceding the creation of the Interstate Highway System. Later, it was co-designated as an Interstate, when the gap in the freeway was filled in around Lansing, the US16 designation was decommissioned in the state. The freeway was then solely designated Interstate 96 east of Grand Rapids, the original pathway along the Grand River Avenue corridor was an Indian trail, a footpath used by the native population. This trail was used by the first European settlers to the area now known as Michigan. In the middle of the 19th century, the trail was expanded into a road that formed the basis for one of the first state trunkline highways as M-16 in the early 20th century. Later, the highway was rerouted to replace M-126 and create M-104, current segments of the roadway are still part of the state highway system as sections of M-5, M-11, M-43 or business loops off I-96. At the time of its decommissioning, US16 started its run through Michigan at the Grand Trunk Western Railroad docks in Muskegon, the SS Milwaukee Clipper operated as a car ferry across Lake Michigan, connecting Muskegon to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where US16 continued to the west. From the docks, US16 and M-46 traveled concurrently south, at Peck Street, US16 turned south along Business US31. These two highways ran concurrently out of town to the south through Muskegon Heights to Norton Shores, there, the business loop ended at US31, and US16 joined the I-196 freeway headed east. The I-196/US16 freeway traveled southeast of Norton Shores through woodlands in rural Muskegon County parallel to the former US16 routing through Fruitport to Nunica in Ottawa County. The freeway turned more directly east in Nunica past the terminus of M-104. As the freeway approached Kent County, it met the western terminus of M-11 which was the routing of US16 through the Grand Rapids metropolitan area. I-196/US16 continued eastward around the side of the metropolitan area through the suburbs of Walker. The freeway intersected the contemporaneous routing of US131 along the East Beltline, there I-196 ended and US16 was transferred to the I-96 freeway. I-96/US16 continued southward intersecting Cascade Road, which was previously US16, Cascade Road east of this interchange meets the westernmost part of Grand River Avenue, which carried US16 east continuously to Downtown Detroit
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M-8 (Michigan highway)
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M-8 is a 5. 5-mile state trunkline highway in the U. S. state of Michigan lying within the cities of Detroit and Highland Park. Much of it is the Davison Freeway, the nations first urban depressed freeway, named for an English immigrant to the area, Davison Avenue was originally the only street connecting across Highland Park to Detroit. It was rebuilt by the city and Wayne County as a freeway during World War II, the roadway was transferred to the jurisdiction of the Michigan Department of Transportation in 1993 and numbered as M-8. Subsequent changes by the state rebuilt the freeway and extended the M-8 designation to connect to the Jeffries Freeway, M-8 starts on the western end at an interchange with I-96 in Detroit. Davison Avenue continues west of this interchange forming a service drive for the freeway while M-8 uses a section of freeway to connect between I-96 and Davison Avenue. This short freeway segment runs easterly to Livernois Avenue where the transitions into Davison Avenue. East of this transition, the roadway turns northeasterly running through areas of Detroit. The trunkline meets M-10/Lodge Freeway on the border between Detroit and Highland Park, a city surrounded by Detroit, northeast of this interchange, M-8 becomes the Davison Freeway, running depressed below the level of the cross streets. There are interchanges for M-1/Woodward Avenue and Oakland Avenue before meeting the Chrysler Freeway on the border of Highland Park. The Davison Freeway continues northeasterly in Detroit north of Hamtramck, the freeway ends between Gallagher and Newbern avenues. M-8 continues to Conant Street where the designation ends, Davison Avenue continues past Mound Road where it turns back due east until it ends at Van Dyke Street next to the Mt. Olivet Cemetery. MDOTs 2007 traffic surveys counted the average daily traffic, a measure of the number of vehicles using a section of roadway on any given day of the year. An average of 38,000 vehicles used the section of M-8 along Davison Avenue in 2007 each day. The section of freeway in between carried in excess of 50,000 vehicles a day in 2007 between M-10 and I-75, of this traffic,1,900 trucks and other commercial vehicles used the trunkline. Davison Avenue predates both the Davison Freeway and the M-8 state trunkline designation in the area, the roadway was named for Jarad Davison, an English immigrant and one of the early settlers of the area. The street was the one of the 30 parallel streets in Highland Park that crossed through the city from border to border. This road was heavily congested, approaching gridlock during rush hour by 1940, a traffic survey showed that 96% of the traffic using the street was crossing Highland Park with no destination in the city. A proposal to rebuild the street as a six-lane, limited-access highway was approved by the Highland Park City Council on March 17,1941
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M-39 (Michigan highway)
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M-39 is a 16 miles long state trunkline highway in Metro Detroit area of the US state of Michigan that runs from Lincoln Park, on the south end, to Southfield on the north. From there the highway heads northward, the first 2.3 miles of the highway follows Southfield Road, a divided highway in the Downriver area. It then transitions into the Southfield Freeway, which is a 13.7 miles long freeway that runs from Allen Park north through Dearborn, the northern terminus is at M-10 in Southfield. The current M-39 is the highway to bear the designation. The first dated back to the origins of the highway system in 1919. This highway was replaced in segments through the 1920s and 1930s by realignments or extensions of other highways in the area, the second was part of Schaefer Highway in the Detroit area from 1939 until the end of the 1950s. The current highway was commissioned when the M-39 designation was moved to Southfield Road from Schaefer Highway, during the 1960s, it was converted into a freeway in stages. Afterwards, it was extended to end at M-85 before a change in the 1980s gave the trunkline its present termini, M-39 begins at Lafayette Boulevard a block east of its junction with I-75 in Lincoln Park. From there the road is a boulevard through residential areas as it runs west-northwesterly to pass under I-75. In Allen Park, the highway continues through residential and commercial areas, immediately after this transition, the Southfield Freeway, as M-39 is now called, has an interchange with I-94. There is a second, adjacent interchange that connects to Van Born Road, the freeway is bordered by service drives that carry one-way traffic and bear the Southfield Road name on either side. M-39 meets Outer Drive near the campus of the University of Michigan–Dearborn, the adjoining properties are residential to the west and commercial to the east. Near Greenfield Village, the curves to the northwest around the Ford Proving Grounds before turning to the north. The freeway crosses the River Rouge and meets US Highway 12 next to the Fairlane Town Center, north of the interchange for M-153, M-39 crosses into Detroit. From there the road continues through the populated areas of the west side of the city. Next to the Chicago Road overpass, the runs under a CSX Transportation rail line. The trunkline continues traveling to the north through a series of interchanges, next is the stack interchange with I-96 with access to both the local and express lanes of that freeway. The last of the series is another interchange with Schoolcraft Road
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M-85 (Michigan highway)
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M-85, also known as Fort Street or Fort Road for its entire length, is a state trunkline highway in the U. S. state of Michigan. The highway serves several Downriver suburbs of Detroit, as well as neighborhoods in the city itself, from its southern terminus at exit 28 on Interstate 75 to its second interchange with exit 43 on I-75 in southwest Detroit, M-85 is part of the Lake Erie Circle Tour. In between, it serves mostly residential areas running parallel to a pair of lines, the highway carries between 5,000 and 43,000 vehicles per day on average. Once in the city of Detroit, Fort Street runs parallel to I-75 for several miles before they separate near the Ambassador Bridge, the northern end of M-85 is at the intersection with Griswold Street in downtown Detroit, one block away from Campus Martius Park. Two previous unrelated highways bore the M-85 designation, the first was in Montcalm County and the second near Caro. These uses were retired in the 1930s and the 1940s, respectively, the current M-85 was created in 1956 after the construction of the Detroit-Toledo Freeway, the original northern end was at an intersection with US Highway 25 in downtown. The northern end was truncated in the late 1960s to the junction with I-75. The highway was extended back into downtown Detroit in the first year of the 21st century. M-85 starts a directional interchange with I-75 in near Rockwood, traffic to or from southbound I-75 must use Gibraltar Road instead, M-85 runs north from this interchange to Gibraltar Road as a full freeway, north of that intersection the highway becomes a boulevard. There are many businesses directly adjacent to Fort Street in the Downriver area with residential subdivisions on either side of them, the trunkline parallels lines of the Norfolk Southern and Canadian National railways. In this area, M-85 is also running parallel to, but inland from, the highway runs northeasterly through Gibraltar to Trenton, where it turns due north. Fort Street forms the boundary between Riverview and Trenton in the area near the Riverview Landing Shopping Center, north of here, at Pennsylvania Road, Fort Street crosses into the city of Southgate and curves to the northeast. The highway returns to a due northerly course near Memorial Park and this area is mainly residential neighborhoods that extend in street grids on either side of the Fort Street boulevard. The highway crosses the South Branch of the Ecorse River and enters the city of Lincoln Park, through this Detroit suburb, Fort Street angles slightly northeasterly before turning sharply to the northeast at Champaign Road. M-85s new direction keeps it parallel to the Detroit River about one mile away, when the trunkline crosses the North Branch of the Ecorse River, M-85 enters the city of Detroit near Outer Drive. Fort Street runs parallel to I-75 through the Boynton–Oakwood Heights neighborhoods of the city, North of the intersection with Schaefer Highway, M-85 meets an interchange with I-75 and passes under the freeway, crossing to its northwest side. At this interchange, the LECT designation is transferred from M-85 to I-75, Fort Street continues running between an industrial area and I-75. In this area, the highway crosses more rail lines belonging to Norfolk Southern and Conrail before crossing the River Rouge, Fort Street continues through the Delray neighborhood and crosses under I-75 again, there is no interchange at this location
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M-102 (Michigan highway)
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M-102 is an east–west state trunkline highway in the US state of Michigan that runs along the northern boundary of Detroit following 8 Mile Road. The highway follows the Michigan Baseline, a part of the survey of the state. As a county road or city street,8 Mile Road extends both east and west of the M-102 designation, which leaves 8 Mile on the end to follow Vernier Road. The western terminus of M-102 is at the junction of 8 Mile Road and M-5, the 8 Mile Road name extends west to Pontiac Trail near South Lyon with a discontinuous segment located west of US Highway 23. The eastern end of 8 Mile Road is in Grosse Pointe Woods near I-94, the highway was first designated in the late 1920s, connecting US Highway 10 with US25. Extensions to the highway designation moved the termini in the 1930s and 1940s east to M-29, a change in the 1960s added a section of north–south roadway to the eastern end of M-102, that change was reversed within about a year. A western extension along Grand River Avenue in 1977 was reversed in 1994, the racial patterns have changed, as more middle-class African Americans have also moved north of 8 Mile, but the socioeconomic divide between the city and suburbs remains. Starting at an intersection with Hamburg Road along the Livingston–Washtenaw county line,8 Mile Road runs eastward to an interchange with US23 near Whitmore Lake, there is a gap before 8 Mile Road resumes at Pontiac Trail along the Oakland–Washtenaw county line. Near the suburb of Northville, the road curves northward into Oakland County, the road meets I-96/I-275 at that freeways exit 167 along the border between Livonia and Farmington Hills. As its name implies,8 Mile Road runs east–west eight miles north of the origin of the Mile Road System at Michigan, M-102 starts at the intersection between M-5 and 8 Mile Road and runs eastward along 8 Mile Road. The highway widens out into a setup with each direction divided by a central median. Motorists that want to make a turn along 8 Mile Road have to perform a Michigan left to do so. Starting at the Inkster Road intersection, M-102 forms the boundary between Redford to the south and Southfield to the north, east of Five Points Road, the 8 Mile follows the northern city limits of Detroit. On either side of 8 Mile Road, the area is filled with residential neighborhoods of the two cities with commercial businesses immediately adjacent to the highway. About two miles east of its point, M-102 intersects US24 at a cloverleaf interchange near Frisbee-Pembroke Park. Along the length of the highway, there are large power line towers in the median. Continuing east, M-102 intersects M-39 and M-10 south of the Southfield campus of Oakland Community College, as the highway approaches M-1, there are a pair of service drives that split from the main roadway in each direction to provide access through the interchange with M-1. The main lanes of M-102 pass under M-1 and its ramp connections before the service drives merge back in on the other side and this interchange is located adjacent to the Michigan State Fairgrounds, former site of the now-defunct Michigan State Fair, and Woodlawn Cemetery
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M-150 (Michigan highway)
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M-150 is a state trunkline highway in the US state of Michigan that runs through Rochester Hills and Rochester. It is more known as Rochester Road and runs from a southern terminus at the M-59 freeway north through downtown Rochester to a northern terminus at Tienken Road. M-150 has been a state trunkline since around 1930, and within a few years of its commissioning, it was extended south through Royal Oak, after changes in 1960s, the highway terminated in Troy at Interstate 75 on the southern end and Tienken Road on the north. Since 1987, it has ended at M-59, M-150 follows a single road, known locally as Rochester Road. The trunkline begins at an interchange where Rochester Road crosses the M-59 freeway at exit 46 in Rochester Hills, from there it travels north past the Hampton Golf Club and the Winchester Mall between the intersections with Auburn and Hamlin roads. Past this commercial development, the runs through residential subdivisions. North of the Avon Road intersection, the highway enters Rochester, Rochester Road forms one of the main streets of the downtown area in Rochester as it passes through the city. North of Romeo Street, the road exits downtown and passes through another residential neighborhood, like other state highways in Michigan, M-150 is maintained by the Michigan Department of Transportation. The section of M-150 between M-59 and Auburn Road is listed on the National Highway System, a network of important to the countrys economy, defense. Since then, the road has been extended and shortened a number of times, in 1963, the section south of 11 Mile Road near Royal Oak was removed from M-150, sections were rebuilt as part of I-75 and the rest was turned over to local control. The northern extension from the 1930s was removed in 1965 when the trunkline was shortened to end on the side of Rochester at Tienken Road. The southern section was truncated back to the current southern terminus at M-59 in 1987. This southern segment between I-75 and M-59 is listed on the National Highway System however, the entire highway is in Oakland County. Michigan Highways portal M-150 at Michigan Highways M-150 at Michigan Highway Ends
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M-153 (Michigan highway)
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M-153 is a state trunkline highway in the Metro Detroit area of the U. S. state of Michigan. It is also known as Ford Road for nearly its entire length, named for William Ford, father of Henry Ford, Ford Road runs from near Dixboro to the Dearborn–Detroit border. The M-153 designation continues along Wyoming Avenue where it terminates at a junction with Interstate 94, Ford Road has been a part of the state highway system since December 3,1930. Since the state has maintained the roadway as M-153, it has been extended westward from Wayne County into Washtenaw County, the first of these improvements were made in the 1930s with additional upgrades in the 1960s and 1970s. The last change was made by 1980 to create the modern routing, M-153 starts as an interchange with M-14s exit 10 in Superior Township east of Ann Arbor. Near the county line are farms until Ford Road reaches residential subdivisions at Ridge Road in Canton Township, at the east edge of the township, Ford Road meets I-275 at exit 25 before passing into Westland between Lotz and Hix roads. The interchange with I-275 is built over the crossing of Willow Creek, a tributary of the River Rouge. Ford Road continues east, forming a section of the Garden City boundary near Venoy Road, the trunkline crosses into Dearborn Heights at Inkster Road. It forms the boundary between Dearborn and Dearborn Heights between Gulley and Evergreen roads, crossing US24 in between, east of Telegraph Road, M-153 is built to expressway standards complete with interchanges at Edward N. Hines Drive, Evergreen Road, M-39 and Greenfield Road. The highway crosses the River Rouge north of the Dearborn Country Club west of Evergreen Road, Ford Road ends at Wyoming Avenue. M-153 turns south along Wyoming Avenue to cross I-94 at exit 210 and this interchange is also the location where I-94 and US12 cross, marking the eastern end of M-153 at Michigan Avenue. Ford Road serves as the line for the Detroit areas Mile Road System. From the Canton Center Road intersection eastward, all of M-153 is a part of the National Highway System, a network of important to the countrys economy, defense. M-153 is maintained by the Michigan Department of Transportation like other highways in Michigan. As a part of these maintenance responsibilities, the department tracks the volume of traffic uses the roadways under its jurisdiction. These volumes are expressed using a metric called annual average daily traffic, Ford Road was named for William Ford, father of automobile pioneer Henry Ford. The elder Ford was born in Ireland and settled in Dearborn Township in 1847, williams carpentry business lead him around to regional businesses and neighbors, traveling the area until he took up the family business of farming after marriage to Mary Litogot. They settled on a farm near the intersection of modern-day Ford Road and Greenfield Avenue, settling into his family life, William started serving the local community
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M-14 (Michigan highway)
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M-14 is an east–west state trunkline highway in the southeastern portion of the US state of Michigan. Entirely freeway, it runs for 22.250 miles to connect Ann Arbor with Detroit by way of a connection with Interstate 96, the western terminus is at a partial interchange with I-94 west of Ann Arbor. From there, the freeway curves around the side of Ann Arbor. East of that section, M-14 passes through woodlands and fields in Washtenaw County, in Wayne County, the freeway returns to a suburban area of mixed residential neighborhoods and light industrial areas. It crosses two different rivers and a pair of lines as it approaches Detroits inner suburbs, where it terminates at an interchange between I-96 and I-275. When the states highway system was first signed in 1919, there was a different M-14 that ran the length of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan and this was later replaced by a pair of different US Highways in the 1920s and 1930s. Another M-14 was designated that lasted until the 1940s, the current highway dates back to 1956 when it was designated along a series of roads that previously carried US12. The western terminus of M-14 is west of Ann Arbor, at exit 171 on I-94 and this is a partial interchange, only traffic from eastbound I-94 can access eastbound M-14, and traffic from westbound M-14 must follow westbound I-94. From this junction, M-14 runs northeasterly through suburban Scio Township, the freeway is bordered by residential subdivisions to the southeast and woodlands to the northwest. M-14 curves around to the east through an interchange that has ramps that connect Miller and Maple roads, as it approaches the Huron River, the freeway has an interchange with Business US23, the two highways merge and run concurrently to the north over the river. US 23/M-14 then has an ususual right-in/right-out interchange that uses short connector roads to access to Barton Drive on the north side of the river. The freeway then continues north to an interchange with US23, the business loop ends there, and M-14 turns eastward to follow the US23 freeway around the north side of Ann Arbor. East of that complex, M-14 runs through woodlands and fields north of the community of Dixboro, the freeway turns northeasterly after the interchange with M-153. At the Napier Road underpass, M-14 crosses into Wayne County, once across the county line, the M-14 freeway runs through residential subdivisions from the western Detroit suburbs. There is an interchange for Beck Road as M-14 turns back to the east, the freeway crosses a rail line operated by CSX Transportation The freeway passes Ford Motor Companys Sheldon Road Plant near the Sheldon Road interchange. There is a crossing for another CSX rail line near the bridges over the River Rouge by the St. Johns Golf Course, the freeway through this area curves around a bit north of its previous course. As M-14 nears the Livonia city line, it meets an interchange with I-96, M-14 is maintained by MDOT like other state highways in Michigan. As a part of these maintenance responsibilities, the department tracks the volume of traffic uses the roadways under its jurisdiction
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Atkinson Avenue Historic District
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Atkinson Avenue is an east/west street located in the geographic heart of the city of Detroit, Michigan. Atkinson Avenue was named in honor of William Francis Atkinson, held prisoner by the Confederacy, Atkinson courageously escaped and rose to the rank of captain before leaving the service in 1886. Captain Atkinson had a war record. Long after the Civil War, he studied law and was admitted to the bar, in its entirety, Atkinson Avenue begins at Woodward Avenue and travels westerly to Linwood Avenue, where Atkinson Avenue abruptly stops. Atkinson Avenue resumes at Savery Avenue and continues traveling westerly to its terminus at McQuade Avenue. For a time, during the 1890s, that portion of Atkinson Avenue situated between 12th Street and Crawford Street, actually constituted a part of the boundary of Detroits city limits. Atkinson Avenue consists of parts of six subdivisions, specifically Joy Farm, Lewis Park, Jackson Park, Voigt Park, Boston Boulevard, the adjacent Boston-Edison Historic District is composed of the same subdivisions. The Atkinson Avenue Historic District, however, only includes those six blocks of Atkinson Avenue situated between the John C. Lodge Expressway and Linwood Avenue, the Atkinson Avenue Historic District, as it exists today, was established by action of the Detroit City Council in March 1984. All remaining portions of Atkinson Avenue are not within the boundaries of any historic district, of those portions not already within the city limits, the remaining land in the vicinity was incorporated into the City of Detroit by 1915. The peak building time for the area was 1915 to 1925, the neighborhood became a middle-class area of very nice homes. Doctors, poets, ministers, real estate agents, salesmen, each of the aforementioned subdivisions had similar building restrictions. Homes were to be built 30 feet from the front of the lot line and building materials were to be brick, stone, cement. Few dwellings were of frame construction. All residences were to have full basements, most houses are of the basic box or four square types with Mediterranean, Colonial or Tudor elements and are two stories tall with an attic. If a home had a fence, it was to be of no more than five feet in height. Cost of construction was also specified to be between $3,000 to $4,000, the majority of homes were to be single-family residences. Unlike other neighborhoods within the city, Atkinson Avenue residents did not file deed restrictions prohibiting non-Caucasians from purchasing homes
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West Canfield Historic District
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The West Canfield Historic District is a neighborhood historic district located primarily on Canfield Avenue between Second and Third Streets in Detroit, Michigan. A boundary increase enlarged the district to include buildings on Third Avenue between Canfield and Calumet, the district was designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1970 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971, a boundary increase was added in 1997. The revitalized 1870s era neighborhood is one of the areas surrounding the citys Cultural Center Historic District in Midtown. The area around the West Canfield Historic District was once owned by Lewis Cass, when he died in 1866, his two daughters inherited his holdings. Three years later, they divided the property, with Casss daughter Mary receiving the portion where the West Canfield Historic District is now located. Marys husband was Captain August Canfield, a graduate of West Point, in 1871, Mary Cass Canfield subdivided her land, naming Canfield Avenue in honor of her husband. The street was populated by prosperous attorneys, physicians, dentists, architects, the street remained a prime residential location in Detroit for decades. In the 1930s, the Great Depression led to a decline in the neighborhood, in the 1960s, the neighborhood was revitalized and the historic streetscape was restored. New residents have continued to maintain and revitalize the vibrant Midtown neighborhood in the 21st century, in the early 1870s, numerous brick Queen Anne homes were constructed along Canfield, on spacious lots with generous setbacks. The original platting specified that each lot would measure 50 by 190 feet, and that there would be a 30 foot setback for sidewalk, shrubbery, and ornamental purposes. In the early 1980s, the street was narrowed and returned to its original 1870s design with granite pavers, reproduction street lamps were installed, trees were planted, in 1970, the District received state and local historical designation, the first district so recognized in the city. The district was placed on the National Register of Historic Places the following year, in 1997, District was expanded to include three buildings on Third Street, one additional Queen Anne style residence and two Victorian commercial buildings. In the new millennium, the vibrant neighborhood has experienced many renovations
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Dixie Highway
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The Dixie Highway was a United States automobile highway, first planned in 1914 to connect the US Midwest with the Southern United States. It was part of the National Auto Trail system, and grew out of an earlier Miami to Montreal highway, the final result is better understood as a network of connected paved roads, rather than one single highway. It was constructed and expanded from 1915 to 1927, the Dixie Highway was inspired by the example of the slightly earlier Lincoln Highway, the first road across the United States. The prime booster of both projects was promoter and businessman Carl G. Fisher and it was overseen by the Dixie Highway Association, and funded by a group of individuals, businesses, local governments, and states. In the early years the U. S. S, Route system, with some portions becoming state roads. The route was marked by a red stripe with the white letters DH, usually with a stripe above. The logo was painted on utility poles. The Dixie Highway, an idea of Carl G. Fisher of the Lincoln Highway Association, was organized in early December 1914 in Chattanooga. On April 3,1915, governors of the states met at Chattanooga. On May 22,1915, the decided on a split route in order to serve more communities. The route left Chicago to the south via Danville, Illinois and turned east to Indianapolis, two alternate routes were included between Chattanooga and Atlanta, and again between Atlanta and Macon, Georgia. Finally, between Macon and Jacksonville, Florida, the west route went south to Tallahassee, Florida before turning east, from Jacksonville, the route followed the east coast south to Miami along the John Anderson Highway. Within a week, Michigan agreed to construct a loop around the Lower Peninsula, passing via South Bend, Mackinaw City, Detroit, Detroit became the northern end of the eastern division, with the old route to Indianapolis becoming a connecting link. In early April 1916, the approved the route between Macon and Jacksonville via Savannah, Georgia, and designated the more direct route via Waycross. The Carolina division, connecting to the division at Knoxville, Tennessee and Waynesboro. By mid-1919, a piece on Michigans Upper Peninsula to Sault Ste. At Chattanooga, the western and eastern routes intersected, the took a longer route along U. S. Route 27 to Rome. The Eastern route connected Sault Ste, in Michigans Upper Peninsula, the highway followed what is now M-129 from Sault Ste
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U.S. Route 25 in Michigan
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US Highway 25 was a part of the United States Numbered Highway System in the state of Michigan that ran from the Ohio state line near Toledo and ended at the tip of The Thumb in Port Austin. The general routing of this state highway took it northeasterly from the state line through Monroe. Along this southern half, it followed undivided highways and ran concurrently along two freeways, Interstate 75 and I-94, near the foot of the Blue Water Bridge in Port Huron, US25 turned north and northwesterly along the Lake Huron shoreline to Port Austin. Created with the initial US Highway System on November 11,1926, some of the preceding highways followed roadways created in the 19th and the early 20th centuries. It initially was only routed as far north as Port Huron, by the end of the 1950s, the entire route was paved. Starting in the early 1960s, segments of I-75 and I-94 were built, a business loop was created when the main highway bypassed downtown Port Huron, and then in 1973, the entire designation was removed from the state. The final routing of the highway is maintained by the state under eight different designations. In its final configuration before it was decommissioned in the state, US25 entered Michigan south of Erie, the highway ran parallel to US24 about 2⁄3 mile to the east of that roadway. At LaSalle, the roadway turned more to the northeast toward Monroe, US25 then turned back to the north-northeast and followed Monroe Street next to Lake Monroe and through downtown Monroe over the River Raisin. At the crossing of the Huron River, US 24/US25 entered Flat Rock, the highway followed Telegraph Road through downtown Flat Rock and continued into the suburban area of Downriver. At the intersection with Dix–Toledo Road near Woodhaven, US25 separated from US24, i-75/US25 continued on the Fisher Freeway through the Downriver suburbs of Taylor, Southgate, Allen Park, Lincoln Park, and Melvindale before entering the city of Detroit. The freeway curved to run east-northeasterly and passed through an area of the city. At Clark Avenue, US25 left the freeway to turn a block south, the highway continued along Fort Street running under the approaches to the Ambassador Bridge and into downtown. In Downtown Detroit, Fort Street ended at Campus Martius Park at M-1, US25 looped around the park and followed the street named Cadillac Square over to Randolph Street, turning north to connect to Gratiot Avenue, a major thoroughfare on the east side of Detroit. The highway followed Gratiot through the east side of Detroit running north-northeasterly, US25 intersected the eastern end of the there-unnumbered Fisher Freeway. Gratiot Avenue carried the highway through residential neighborhoods and connected it to the Detroit City Airport, East of the airport, the highway intersected the southern end of M-97 as well. At M-102, US25 exited Detroit and entered East Detroit, the highway continued, roughly parallel to I-94 through Roseville and Mount Clemens. At Hall Road near Selfridge Air National Guard Base, M-59 merged with US25 to follow Gratiot Avenue, at 23 Mile Road west of New Baltimore, US 25/M-59 turned eastward onto 23 Mile to an interchange with I-94
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M-17 (Michigan highway)
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M-17 is a 6. 390-mile-long state trunkline highway in the U. S. state of Michigan, connecting the cities of Ypsilanti and Ann Arbor in Washtenaw County. It was once part of a highway that spanned the southern Lower Peninsula of Michigan before the creation of the U. S. Highway System in 1926. The designation once extended into downtown Detroit, but the terminus was progressively scaled back in the late 1960s to the current location in Ypsilanti. The changes made to the highways in Washtenaw County spawned Business M-17, M-17 begins at exit 37 along US Highway 23 on the Ann Arbor – Pittsfield Township border. West of this interchange, Washtenaw Avenue is Business Loop Interstate 94. M-17 follows Washtenaw Avenue east of interchange through Pittsfield Township. The street is five lanes wide through an area between Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti running east-southeasterly. Although there are residential areas near M-17, particularly to the south. M-17 crosses into the city of Ypsilanti at Hewitt Road and this intersection provides access north to Rynearson Stadium, home field for the Eastern Michigan University Eagles football team. Continuing east-southeasterly along Washtenaw Avenue, M-17 meets the southeast corner of the EMU campus at Oakwood Avenue, the highway follows the southern edge of campus to Cross Street, where the highway splits to follow a one-way pairing of streets. Eastbound M-17 continues along Washtenaw Avenue while westbound traffic follows Cross Street, eastbound traffic turns southward at Hamilton Street for two blocks before turning east along Michigan Avenue, meeting westbound Bus. The two highway designations merge, running concurrently through downtown Ypsilanti, both directions of traffic for both highways rejoin at Huron Street, as the westbound M-17 traffic uses Huron Street north to Cross Street and westbound Bus. US12 turns south along Huron Street, northeast of the Huron Street intersection is Riverside Park. Michigan Avenue forms the southern park boundary just before it crosses the Huron River. At Ecorse Road, M-17 turns south in Ypsilanti Township through a residential area, Ecorse Road turns east four blocks north of I-94/US12 and runs parallel to the freeway. Past Harris Road, US12 turns northeasterly on a separate expressway, where it meets Ecorse Road, US12 follows Ecorse Road, replacing M-17. This junction marks the terminus of M-17 west of Willow Run Airport. Like other state highways in Michigan, M-17 is maintained by the Michigan Department of Transportation, as a part of these maintenance duties, the department tracks the traffic levels along its roadways using a metric called annual average daily traffic
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Eureka Road
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Eureka Road is a major east-west thoroughfare and section line road in the Downriver region of Metro Detroit in the U. S. state of Michigan. Although it is not a state trunkline, it is still a major roadway through the region. In Wyandotte, Eureka Avenue starts out as a street at the foot of the Detroit River. The avenue then intersects Biddle Avenue, and turns due west and widens to a major street with four through lanes. Eureka Road crosses M-85 into Southgate, where it forms the border of the Old Homestead subdivision. The road passes by Dunhams and Kroger stores, and neighboring Southgate Shopping Center, after Trenton Road, the road continues on through more suburbs and commercial areas as the road continues west. West of Dix-Toledo Highway, the area becomes increasingly commercial, Eureka widens into a seven-lane road at Allen Road as it enters the city of Taylor before becoming a six-lane divided highway as the road crosses under another Canadian National line. The road then passes by a Dennys, Bob Evans, Super 8 hotel, a Costco store is also rumored to build on the former Gibraltar Trade Center site along with Menards, but the future is not yet known. The road then crosses under another Conrail Shared Assets railroad line, in Romulus, Eureka continues west as the suburban sprawl on both sides of the road significantly decreases. The suburban sprawl stops completely east of Merriman Road as Eureka curves southwest, the road then curves northwest as it approaches John Dingell Drive, which is the entrance to Detroit Metro Airport. Eureka transitions back into a road east of the Wayne Road/Wahrman Road intersection. – In 2016, Eureka Road will be resurfaced between Allen and Racho Road in Taylor, – In December 2015, several speed limits were changed along Eureka Road. In Wyandotte, the limit was changed from 30 to 35 between Biddle Avenue and the viaducts,35 to 40 between the viaducts and Dix-Toledo Highway in Southgate. In Romulus, the limit was changed from 45 to 55 between Middlebelt Road and Wayne/Wahrman Road. It was also changed from 45 to 50 between Wayne/Wahrman Road and the CSX Railroad crossing just west of the I-275 interchange. – Eureka Road between Fort Street and Dix Toledo in Southgate is known for its potholes and its heavy congestion, mostly due to traffic signal timings, no scheduled maintenance will occur for at least two more years, but is relatively high on the priority list. Eureka Road becomes an expressway from just west of Merriman Road to just west of Wayne Road along the edge of Metro Airport in Romulus. This includes an interchange with John D. Dingell Drive
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East Ferry Avenue Historic District
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The East Ferry Avenue Historic District is a historic residential district in Midtown Detroit, Michigan. The nationally designated historic district stretches two blocks from Woodward Avenue east to Brush Street, the locally designated district includes a third block between Brush and Beaubien. The district includes the separately designated Col. Frank J. Hecker House and it was designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1976 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. The Inn on Ferry Street is a member of Historic Hotels of America, in 1856, the Ferry Seed Company was founded in Detroit, the company established a large farm at the corner of East Ferry and Woodward to grow the seeds that were sold nationwide. In the mid-1880s, then-owner D. M. Ferry platted the farm into lots along East Ferry Avenue. At the time Woodward was a residential street, so lots facing Woodward were quite expensive. Lots on the streets were less expensive, and East Ferry was quickly settled by prosperous middle. Woodward Avenue since redeveloped into commercial property, but a group of mansions. Around World War I, a number of professionals and business people found they could purchase homes on East Ferry, the Omega Psi Phi fraternity and the Lewis College of Business still remain on East Ferry. After World War II, the Merrill Palmer Institute purchased several homes along East Ferry, however, Merrill Palmer was unable to expand and in the late 1960s sold the homes to the Detroit Institute of Arts for their proposed expansion. The DIA eventually realized the property on East Ferry would not be useful to them, four of these homes were turned into The Inn on Ferry Street, a successful bed and breakfast, others are now residential. Recently, new homes have been constructed in the neighborhood, architecturally congruent with the designs of the 19th century homes already there, houses on East Ferry are built close together on small lots, set back from the street. Many of the carriage houses still exist. In general, the neighborhood consists primarily of Queen Anne homes, built of brick and sandstone, with bay windows or turrets, there are some Romanesque Revival, and Colonial Revival designs. Mills, A. E. Harley, and Smith, Hinchman & Grylls, cultural Center Historic District Hill, Eric J. and John Gallagher. AIA Detroit, The American Institute of Architects Guide to Detroit Architecture, meyer, Katherine Mattingly and Martin C. P. McElroy with Introduction by W. Hawkins Ferry, Hon A. I. A
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Grand Boulevard (Detroit)
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Grand Boulevard is a thoroughfare in Detroit, Michigan, running east to west in some places and north to south in other places and is approximately 11 miles in length. It once constituted the city limits of Detroit, Grand Boulevard is commonly referred to by residents of the city simply as the Boulevard. These citizens proposed adopting Haussmanns concepts by surrounding Detroit with its own Grand Boulevard, when Belle Isle was transferred from the state to the city of Detroit, Michigan legislator James Randall included a rider calling for the construction of this Grand Boulevard. However, the city government refused to work on the road right away. Finally, in 1891, Detroit mayor Hazen S. Pingree supported the idea and broke ground on the construction of Grand Boulevard, by 1913, Grand Boulevard was completed, encircling the city. It was generally recognized as an attraction of the city, the entire length was decorated with trees, shrubbery. During the 1980s, to construction of new facilities for the General Motors Corporation. The controversy sparked racial divisions within Detroit, the subsequent bus route which traveled on some, but not all, of Grand Boulevard retained the Grand Belt name until a service cut in 2009 eliminated that public transit coverage entirely
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Griswold Street
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Griswold Street also passes through the Capitol Park Historic District. This list below shows the information on the buildings located along Griswold Street and this list starts at Jefferson Avenue, and heads northbound, terminating at Clifford Street. Detroit Financial District Hill, Eric J. and John Gallagher, AIA Detroit, The American Institute of Architects Guide to Detroit Architecture
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Jefferson Avenue (Detroit)
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Jefferson Avenue is a 63. 71-mile-long scenic road along the eastern part of the Detroit metropolitan area in the southeastern part of the U. S. state of Michigan. It travels alongside Lake Erie, the Detroit River, and Lake St. Clair and this road also provides access to many recreational facilities in the area. West Jefferson Avenue is primarily a commercial, while East Jefferson Avenue contains a residential district. Jefferson is one of five major avenues planned by Judge Augustus B. Woodward in 1805 that extend from downtown Detroit in differing directions, first surveyed in 1807, it was named Main Street. It was later renamed Jefferson Avenue after U. S. President Thomas Jefferson, Jefferson Avenue was planned to extend due east of downtown, parallel to the Detroit River. Later additions to the road have extended it west of downtown as well and this road originates in the City of Detroit. Jefferson passes under Cobo Convention Center, but such structures as 150 West Jefferson and it then passes through much of eastern Detroit and then the Grosse Pointe communities, St. Clair Shores, and Harrison Township, among others. It also serves as the backbone of the neighborhoods of the Grosse Pointe communities. The Trenton Channel Power Plant and Elizabeth Park are located along Jefferson Avenue in Trenton. S, turnpike Road in Berlin Charter Township. A gap occurs at the former Selfridge Air Force Base, now a golf course, there is a one block gap in Jefferson Avenue on Detroits southwest side, between Clark and Scotten Streets, which is occupied by the Detroit/Wayne County Port Authoritys Detroit Terminal. In downtown Detroit, the end of M-10 is routed on Jefferson to the corner of Randolph St. /M-3. From the corner of Randolph to the end of I-375 between Beaubien and St. Antoine streets, Jefferson is the extremely short,0.015 mile-long. Metro Detroit portal Michigan Highways portal Transportation in metropolitan Detroit East Jefferson Avenue Residential District Media related to Jefferson Avenue at Wikimedia Commons
US 24 near Bloomfield Hills
I-94 near Mt. Clemens
