Grand River Avenue
Grand River Avenue

Author: Jon Milan and Gail Offen

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 1467112127

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Grand River Avenue details the history of this historical Michigan roadway, which has served as a footpath, wagon rut, and ultimately a two-lane highway. 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.

Old Chicago Road
Old Chicago Road

Author: Jon Milan

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 9780738578101

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Uses vintage images of buildings, villages, and towns in order to present a pictorial tour of the interstate highway's path in Michigan during the late-nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Walking Detroit
Walking Detroit

Author: JeeYeun Lee

Publisher:

Published: 2020-09

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9780578717845

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Catalog of art work by JeeYeun Lee about Detroit made 2016-2018

Blue Highways
Blue Highways

Author: William Least Heat-Moon

Publisher: Little, Brown

Published: 2012-04-03

Total Pages: 458

ISBN-13: 0316218545

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Hailed as a masterpiece of American travel writing, Blue Highways is an unforgettable journey along our nation's backroads. William Least Heat-Moon set out with little more than the need to put home behind him and a sense of curiosity about "those little towns that get on the map -- if they get on at all -- only because some cartographer has a blank space to fill: Remote, Oregon; Simplicity, Virginia; New Freedom, Pennsylvania; New Hope, Tennessee; Why, Arizona; Whynot, Mississippi." His adventures, his discoveries, and his recollections of the extraordinary people he encountered along the way amount to a revelation of the true American experience.