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Highways 230 through 249
M-231 | M-239 | M-247 | Jump to Bottom
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PLEASE NOTE: The M-231 route information has moved to its own page: M-231 Route Listing. |
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Southern Terminus: |
Indiana state
line (connection w/IN SR-39) southeast of New Buffalo |
Northern Terminus: |
I-94 at Exit
1 southeast of New Buffalo |
Length: |
1.136 miles |
| Map: |
Route Map of M-239 |
| Notes: |
For many years in the
1960s and until 1972, Indiana dragged their feet on the completion of their
portion of I-94 past Michigan City,
so a temporary terminus of I-94 was
located at M-239. Through Detroit-Chicago traffic continued southerly via
M-239 into Indiana, then southerly via IN SR-39 to a connection with the
Indiana Toll Rd, then westerly toward Chicago. Once the "Cornfield Roadblock"
was completed in Indiana, M-239 was retained as a connection with IN SR-39. |
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M-239, named as
such because of its connection with IN SR-39, has always terminated at I-94 and
has never extended northwesterly via La Porte Rd into New Buffalo. |
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History: |
1963
(Sept 22) -
A new 1.1-mile long state trunkline is officially determined along La Porte
Rd in southwestern Berrien Co connecting the temporary western end of I-94 in Michigan near New Buffalo with IN SR-39 at the Indiana state line. |
| Freeway/Expwy: |
No portion of M-239 is freeway or expressway. |
| Continue on: |
SR-39
into Indiana - via the Indiana
Highway Ends website |
| Photographs: |
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| Weblinks: |
M-239 @ Michigan Highway Ends - photos of the termini of M-239 at Dan Garnell's excellent Michigan Highway Ends website. |
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Southern Terminus: |
M-13/Euclid Ave
northwest of Bay City |
Northern Terminus: |
Entrance to
Bay City State Recreation Area north of Bay City |
Length: |
2.960 miles |
| Map: |
Route Map of M-247 |
| Notes: |
Until 1998–99, M-247
had been the highest designated M-numbered highway in the state. All other
higher-numbered routes were Interstates. With the first highway transfers
of the Rationalization process, Marquette County's Co Rd 553 was transferred
from county to state control. First M-553, then M-294 broke the long-standing "247
barrier." M-247's long reign at the top of all M-numbered highways has,
unfortunately, come to an end. |
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M-247, which serves as a state highway connector to
the main entrance of the Bay
City State Recreation Area, is also known as
Euclid Ave and Beaver Rd. The highway derives its number from having been
formerly designated as a part of M-47 until 1961, when M-47 was moved onto
a former portion of US-10 between Saginaw and Bay City. |
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History: |
1961 - A variety
of state trunkline highway route changes take place in the "Tri-Cities" area
of Saginaw/Bay City/Midland this year, including the routing of M-47 out
of the Bay City area onto a more westerly-trending alignment via Freeland
and the cancellation of the portion of former M-47 along
Henry St and State Park Dr from Bay City northerly to the Bay City State
Park (present-day Bay
City State Recreation Area). What had been designated M-47 from M-13 (formerly
US-23) northwest of Bay City northerly
via Euclid Rd to the state park is redesignated as M-247. |
| Freeway/Expwy: |
No portion of M-247 is freeway or expressway. |
| Photographs: |
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| Weblinks: |
M-247 @ Michigan Highway Ends - photos of the termini of M-247 at Dan Garnell's excellent Michigan Highway Ends website. |
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