Portal:Michigan highways/Did you know/February 2013
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- ... that Woodward Avenue (pictured in 1942) was planned to be the most important of the five major avenues planned by Judge Augustus Woodward that extend from downtown Detroit in differing directions?
- ... that in 1966, the freeway conversion of US 131 forced the former Grand Rapids Speedrome, a race track, to close?
- ... that US 41 is officially the Copper Country Trail National Scenic Byway north of Houghton?
- ... that M-6 is officially named for Paul B. Henry, a Congressman from the Grand Rapids area who died in office?
- ... that I-375 was the shortest signed Interstate Highway in the country at 1.06 miles (1.71 km) until I-110 in Texas was signed?