Tag: US 12
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Postcard views of the Michigan Road, Indianapolis to Michigan City
More postcard views from the Michigan Road, this time in the northern half of Indiana.
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The Lake Michigan lighthouse in Michigan City, Indiana
Photographs of the lighthouse in the Lake Michigan harbor in Michigan City, Indiana.
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The Michigan City Uptown Arts District
A quick look at the Michigan City Uptown Arts District, right at the end of the Michigan Road.
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The historic Michigan Road
A list of all I’ve written about Indiana’s Michigan Road (so far).
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270 miles of history
If you’ve ever read my blog before, you know about my fascination with the Michigan Road. It’s Indiana’s first state-funded road, built in the 1830s to connect southern Indiana to northern Indiana through the capital at Indianapolis. Amazingly, it is still mostly intact. With a couple minor detours, you can drive all of it still…
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A historic byway
Indiana’s Michigan Road is a state Historic Byway.
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Clinched: The Michigan Road
Over Labor Day weekend I finally finished driving the Michigan Road. Here is what stands at its end: You might think it’s the open to The Simpsons brought to life, but it’s actually the cooling tower of the fossil-fuel-fired Michigan City Generating Station. I didn’t count on how built up Michigan City would be and…
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The Michigan Road
When Indiana was new, most Hoosiers lived along the Ohio River. The state’s first and largest city, Madison, was on the river, and the state’s first capital, Corydon, was near the river. Indiana wasn’t ten years old in 1825 when the capital moved to Indianapolis at the state’s swampy center. People needed ways to get to the…