U.S. Route 112
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U.S. Route 112 is a designation, defunct since the beginning of 1962, for a largely east-west highway in the south of the U.S. state of Michigan between New Buffalo, Michigan and Ypsilanti, Michigan having its old termini at intersections with the original U.S. Route 12. Part of old U.S. 112 was the Old Sauk Trail, an Indian trail. All of it, except for a bypass of Niles, is undivided surface road. It passes through terrain full of lakes suitable for recreational use.
It intersects 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.
Michigan designates this highway the Pulaski Memorial Highway in honor of the Polish Count Kazimierz Pułaski, a hero of the American War of Independence.
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.
U.S. 112 was a heavily-traveled alternative to the more urban U.S. 12 in the pre-Interstate era between Detroit and Chicago. West of Sturgis it (now US 12) is very lightly traveled due to the nearby Indiana Toll Road. Generally flat but curvy west of Coldwater, it passes through the scenic Irish Hills east of Coldwater.
In 1926, U.S. 112 was originally designated to contain none of the old Detroit-Ypsilanti segment; somewhere between Edwardsburg and Adamsville it made a sharp turn to the southwest along what are now M-205 in Michigan as well as Indiana's State Road 19 and State Road 112 to connect to U.S. Route 20 west of Elkhart, Indiana.
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.
Historical Note: In 1925, US 112 was originally proposed to run from Oshkosh to Fremont, Wisconsin on what later became U.S. Route 110.
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
External links
US 112
- [Historic US-112 Endpoint Photos]
- [More Historic US-112 Endpoint Photos]
- [Historic US-112 at Michigan Highways]
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