Portal:Michigan highways/Selected article/April 2012

M-107 was an east–west state trunkline highway in the Upper Peninsula. Running for 9.576 mi, it connected Lake of the Clouds and the rest of the Porcupine Mountains State Park (PMSP) to M-64 in Silver City. The roadway parallels the Lake Superior shoreline in Ontonagon County, crossing the Little Iron River and passing the PMSP Winter Sports Complex

The designation was created in 1935 as a tribute to the 107th Engineer Combat Battalion. The highway was dedicated on June 13, 1954, to the battalion at a ceremony by Highway Commissioner Charles M. Ziegler. This ceremony was attended by approximately 1,200 people at a highway turnout located along the roadway 4 mi west of Silver City. A 3 ST boulder was placed on a concrete pedestal with a bronze inscription plaque at the location of the ceremony. The Michigan Legislature named it the "107th Engineer Memorial Road " in 2001. M-107 was transferred from the control of the Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) to the Ontonagon County Road Commission on June 4, 2008. This transfer decommissioned the M-107 designation and removed it from the state trunkline system. (more...)

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