Tag: US 20
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Adding the Michigan Road to the modern Indiana highway system
The story of how the Michigan Road was added to the state highway system, bit by bit.
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Adding the Michigan Road to the modern Indiana highway system
It was very late to the party: the last segment of the old Michigan Road to be added to Indiana’s modern state highway system. The state of Indiana built the Michigan Road during the 1830s to connect Madison on the Ohio River to Michigan City on Lake Michigan via the new state capital in Indianapolis. Indiana…
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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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A historic byway
Indiana’s Michigan Road is a state Historic Byway.
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Lincolnway Foods burns
The sad demise of Lincolnway Foods, a longtime grocery on the Michigan Road in South Bend.
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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…