. The historical geography of Detroit. e of twenty-eightmiles.^ Farmers canying produce from Ann Arbor toDetroit by way of Plymouth Four Corners (now Ply-mouth), almost thirty-five miles, would need nearly aweek to make the joiu-ney and return.^° Stage lines were established along most of theseroads shortly after their completion.^ A stage linewas established from Detroit to Romeo in 1830.^^Mitchells Tourists map of 1835 shows two stages outof Detroit, one through Ypsilanti, Cold water, Niles,Michigan City to Chicago, over which stage coachesmade three trips a week; and a second through Monroe
. The historical geography of Detroit. e of twenty-eightmiles.^ Farmers canying produce from Ann Arbor toDetroit by way of Plymouth Four Corners (now Ply-mouth), almost thirty-five miles, would need nearly aweek to make the joiu-ney and return.^° Stage lines were established along most of theseroads shortly after their completion.^ A stage linewas established from Detroit to Romeo in 1830.^^Mitchells Tourists map of 1835 shows two stages outof Detroit, one through Ypsilanti, Cold water, Niles,Michigan City to Chicago, over which stage coachesmade three trips a week; and a second through Monroe 25. Ibid. 26. Ibid. 27. See map. 28. Mich. Hist. Colls., XXXVIII, 559 (Fuller). iL-r; ,. ; n !,,,.. ^c v/ i-- •jf; LAND TRANSPORTATION 261 and Toledo to Lower ^ In 1837 the WesternStage Company of Detroit advertised five lines ofstages, on most of which conveyances left Detroitdaily. One route extended through Monroe, Toledoand Perrysburg to Lower Sandusky, requiring twodays for the journey. The Western route led from. Roads from Detroit in 1835{From John Fanners Map of Michigan) Detroit to Chicago by way of Ypsilanti, Clinton, Jones-ville, and Niles. Another on the Territorial Roadpassed through Ann Arbor to St. Joseph. A fourthled to Flint River (now Flint) through Pontiac andGrand Blanc. On the route to Ft. Gratiot stages leftDetroit every morning.^° By degrees the railroads 29. Ibid., XXXVIII, 594 (Chase). 30. McCabe, Directory of Detroit (1837), advertisement. ^\>;il 262 HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY OF DETROIT were extended in IMichigan, in many cases along ornear the stage roads, and these supplanted the stages.^^ Until the coming of the railroads in Southern Michi-gan, the roads just described serv^ed as the only outletsfor the surplus agricultural products of the , the nucleus from which these roads radiated,became the iocws toward which the surplus productsmoved in search of a market. It was not only amarket but also a supply station f
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