Grand River Avenue: From Detroit to Lake Michigan (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781531669683)

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

Author: Jon Milan, Gail Offen
ISBN-10: 1531669689
ISBN-13: 9781531669683
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing Library Editions
Language: English
Published: 11/03/2014
Pages: 130
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.91lbs
Size: 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.38d