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Photographer: Top: Photo courtesy of Wayne County. Bottom: Photo courtesy of Birmingham Historical Museum and Park
Caption: Woodward Avenue: A True Original Marker — lower left images
Additional Description: Top: Groundbreaking for the world's first mile of concrete highway on Woodward Avenue between Six and Seven Mile Roads, 1909. Another first was the four-way electric traffic light at Woodward and Michigan Avenues in 1918. Bottom: North end of Woodward Avenue, about 1900. The Good Roads Movement among planners in the early 1900s improved these roads for the growing use of automobiles.
Submitted: October 25, 2023, by Joel Seewald of Madison Heights, Michigan.
Database Locator Identification Number: p756391
File Size: 3.001 Megabytes

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