A good number of our state’s main roads were once Native American trails. These eventually became our oldest ones:
US-2 from St. Ignace to Green Bay, Wisconsin US-12 from Ypsilanti to Chicago US-41, from L’Anse to Marquette I-75, from Detroit to Saginaw I-94, from Detroit to St. Joseph I-96, from Detroit to Grand Rapids Old 27, from Kinderhook to Grayling
But the oldest, hands down, is Woodward Avenue (M-1) in Detroit.
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Originally the Saginaw Trail used by Native Americans, it was simply a foot path that went from Detroit to Saginaw. That stretch was the first road surveyed in Michigan back on December 15, 1819, and was dubbed “Pontiac Road”. It’s 27 miles long and reaches from the Detroit River to Pontiac…