Ionia and Houghton Lake State Road: Michigan's first designated state swamp land road.

Michigan Historical Review | September 22, 2005| | Copyright

The Ionia and Houghton Lake State Road was the first continuous road into the heart of central Michigan. The route was north, up the peninsula divide from the settled districts of the south-central portion of the state into the wilderness of the northern Lower Peninsula. It was the first state road designated to be financed with provisions from the Swamp Land Act conveying federally owned swamp lands to the state of Michigan. The southern stretches of the road helped open land to farm settlement and remain in use today. Construction of some of the northern portion, however, ...

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