Portal:Michigan highways/Did you know/May 2020

Marquette–Negaunee Road in 1917 with the first highway centerline in the country

• ... that the first highway centerline (pictured) was painted on the Marquette–Negaunee Road by K.I. Sawyer in 1917?
• ... that the section of Michigan Avenue in East Lansing is an unsigned highway numbered M-143?
• ... that only two of the 280 miles (3.2 of the 450 km) of US 8 lie in Michigan?
• ... that M-114 was set up as a beltline around Grand Rapids following what are now Wilson Avenue, 28th Street and East Beltline Avenue?
• ... that a section of the former Bus. M-28 in Newberry has also carried the designations M-28, M-48, M-117 or M-123 at different times in its history?