U.S. ROUTE 112

'U.S. Route 112' ('US 112') is a designation, defunct since the beginning of 1962, for a largely east-west highway in southern Michigan, United States, between New Buffalo and Ypsilanti. At each end, the route terminated at the original U.S. Route 12.
As part of the shortest route between Detroit and Chicago, it was considered a likely corridor for an expressway along its route before the Indiana Toll Road and Interstate 94 made such a highway largely unnecessary.
Part of old US 112 was the 'Old Sauk Trail', an Indian trail.

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Route description

History

See also

References

External links

Route description

All of US 112, except for a bypass of Niles, was an undivided surface road. It passes through terrain full of lakes suitable for recreational use.
US 112 was a heavily-traveled alternative to the more urban US 12 in the pre-Interstate era between Detroit and Chicago. West of Sturgis, US 112 (now US 12) is very lightly traveled due to the nearby Indiana Toll Road. West of Coldwater, the routing of US 112 was generally flat but curvy. East of Coldwater, US 112 passed through the scenic Irish Hills.
It intersected Interstate 94 east of New Buffalo; U.S. Route 31 west of Niles, U.S. Route 131 in White Pigeon; Interstate 69 just east of Coldwater; U.S. Route 127 near Somerset Center, U.S. Route 23 east of Saline; and Interstate 94 west of Ypsilanti.

History

In 1925, US 112 was originally proposed to run from Oshkosh to Fremont, Wisconsin on what later became U.S. Route 110.
In 1926, U.S. 112 was originally designated to contain none of the old Detroit-Ypsilanti segment; between Edwardsburg and Adamsville it made a sharp turn to the southwest along what was until 2002 M-205 in Michigan, then Indiana's State Road 19 and former State Road 112 to connect to U.S. Route 20 west of Elkhart, Indiana.
In 1961 Michigan completed Interstate 94 between New Buffalo and Ypsilanti along the corridor of the old, more northerly and urban, U.S. 12 to the north and removed signs for U.S. 12 parallel to and along the freeway. Michigan redesignated the intrastate U.S. 112 as U.S. 12, which has been little altered since 1961 except to give access to new freeways.
Michigan designated this highway the Pulaski Memorial Highway in honor of the Polish Count Kazimierz Pułaski, a hero of the American War of Independence.

See also

★ M-112 (Michigan highway), a loop route in the Metro Detroit area and the initial designation for the Willow Run Expressway and Detroit Industrial Freeway

References

1. US Highways From US 1 to US 830 Robert V. Droz.

External links

★ Historic US-112 Endpoint Photos

★ More Historic US-112 Endpoint Photos

★ Historic US-112 at Michigan Highways