He also connected Detroit to Buffalo, Cleveland to Cincinnati (Cleveland and Cincinnati Telegraph Company, the Wade Line), and others.
The Michigan Legislature authorized the construction of a private plank road with tolls to connect Detroit with Pontiac in 1848.
M-53 is a state trunkline highway in the US state of Michigan that connects Detroit to The Thumb region.
More roads were built with Congressional appropriations in the 1820s and 1830s connecting Detroit to Port Huron, Saginaw, Grand Rapids and Chicago.
The Detroit and Howell Railroad (D&H) is a defunct railroad organized in 1864 to build a line connecting Howell and Detroit in southeast Michigan.
The northern part of the highway follows a section of an old Indian trail called the Saginaw Trail that connected Detroit with points further north.
It was later a plank road that helped to connect Detroit with the state capital of Lansing and Grand Rapids.
A customs official called Ms. Doan, she said, and practically begged her to send a team of technicians to the two-mile-long Ambassador Bridge that connects Detroit and Windsor, Ontario.
Grand Trunk's river ferry service on the Detroit River connecting Detroit and Windsor, Ontario was also inherited from its 1882 purchase of the Great Western Railway.
US 16 originally connected Detroit with Yellowstone, including a ferry link across Lake Michigan between Muskegon, Michigan, and Milwaukee, Wisconsin.