The nation’s first mile of concrete highway is laid.
With Detroit moving rapidly to become the nation’s automobile capital, residents demanded better roads. In response, the Wayne County Road Commission laid the first stretch of concrete highway on Woodward Avenue between Six and Seven Mile roads. Cost: $13,000.
Sources :
This Day in History, courtesy of the Clarke Historical Library at Central Michigan University.
Scott Pohl, “‘One Mile’ : The history of Detroit’s First Concrete Road“, WKAR, July 11, 2016
This Week in Michigan History, Detroit Free Press, April 20, 2008, B.4.