Portal:U.S. roads/Did you know/May 2015

... that the original route of US Highway 25 between Detroit and Port Huron, Michigan followed Gratiot Avenue (pictured), named for Fort Gratiot that was built in the aftermath of the War of 1812?
...that state funding reserved for the canceled Bay Freeway project in Seattle was instead used to widen U.S. Route 195 to four lanes in Eastern Washington?
...that Park Road 1836, which serves the San Jacinto Battleground State Historic Site in Texas, is numbered to commemorate the year that Texas won its independence from Mexico?
... that the restoration of wetlands in a mitigation bank created in the path of the planned Poinciana Parkway sextupled cost estimates for the highway?
... that New York State Route 17M is the original surface routing of New York State Route 17 from Middletown to Harriman?