[Bluefly]

International Academy - Bloomfield Hills - ranked 6th best public high school in the country.

Cranbrook - Bloomfield Hills - ranked 4th best graduate arts school in the country.

[MICoastieMom]

In keeping with the spirit of the year's political scandels, elections, etc; the Michigan delegation gave Lincoln his party's nomination for presidential candiate.

[Bydand]

1917 - Michigan was credited with painting the first center line on a state highway-the Marquette to Negaunee Road.

1920 - The first four-way traffic signal with red, green and amber lights appeared in Detroit. Designed by William L. Potts of the Detroit Police Department, the light was placed at the intersection of Woodward Avenue and Fort Street.

1927 - First commercially-prepared baby food was invented by Daniel F. Gerber of Fremont.

Michigan was the first state to guarantee every child the right to tax-paid high school education.

[bryan61]

199 waterfalls in Michigan, all but 1 are in the UP

eh?

[Bluefly]

1917 - Michigan was credited with painting the first center line on a state highway-the Marquette to Negaunee Road.

I'm always intrigued by this. I discovered it driving past the sign on the road and had to back up to make sure I read it right.

How in the world - in a region that really didn't get paved roads en mass until the 1950s - did no one think to paint lines on a road before the minimally traveled Marquette to Negaunee road?

New York? Even downtown Detroit, which had the busiest intersection in the world in the 1920s. So strange.

[Bydand]

Originally Posted by Bluefly

I'm always intrigued by this. I discovered it driving past the sign on the road and had to back up to make sure I read it right.

How in the world - in a region that really didn't get paved roads en mass until the 1950s - did no one think to paint lines on a road before the minimally traveled Marquette to Negaunee road?

New York? Even downtown Detroit, which had the busiest intersection in the world in the 1920s. So strange.

When I saw that I also had the same question. Maybe they were REALLY bad drivers in that area and it was the only way to make sure you had a fighting chance in a car. Kind of like two kids bickering in the back seat "This is MY side, THAT is your side, don't cross over or I'll tell!"

[bryan61]

Ive heard also that putting the little orange ball on your radio anttenae originated in the UP so you could see a vehicle over snowbanks

[bryan61]

Oh and thanx, I met a guy from Novi today and told him how his hometown was named

[Giesela]

I wonder if the line in the road isn't the legacy of by-gone era's with lower population, less government etc. In those days if "Joe" had an idea he might take it to the county council which was probably 1 or 2 guys he hunted with and they would sit around and talk about it and then get some paint and see how she goes. So some guy up there had the idea and followed through and the word spread.

Nowdays any decision affects so many people, organizations, budgets etc. etc. etc.

There are still places that have that old time feel, Nebraska, South, North Dakota. I remember stumbling on the fact that there was a county in one of those states that didn't have any population. But I guess I'm off topic here.

[madpie]

Originally Posted by Giesela

I wonder if the line in the road isn't the legacy of by-gone era's with lower population, less government etc. In those days if "Joe" had an idea he might take it to the county council which was probably 1 or 2 guys he hunted with and they would sit around and talk about it and then get some paint and see how she goes. So some guy up there had the idea and followed through and the word spread.

There was 46,759 people in Marquette County reported by the 1910 Census. That was and still is a lot of folks.