Wikipedia talk:Featured article candidates/U.S. Route 16 in Michigan/archive1
Rschen7754, Imzadi1979, and anyone else interested: a blurb for this one (up to 1025 characters total) would be welcome. There's no rush; this hasn't been scheduled at TFA yet. This batch finishes up blurbs for FACs promoted in 2016. - Dank (push to talk) 03:33, 23 January 2020 (UTC)
Okay, I took a shot at it:
US Highway 16 was one of the principal pre-Interstate roads in the state of Michigan. Much of the original roadway is now called Grand River Avenue, and runs across the Lower Peninsula from Detroit northwest to near Grand Rapids. It was largely built along a trail used by Indigenous peoples and later by the first European settlers in the area. As a wagon trail, it was called the Grand River Road. In Detroit, Grand River is one of five major avenues (along with Woodward, Michigan, Gratiot, and Jefferson) planned by Judge Augustus Woodward in 1805 that extended from Downtown Detroit in different directions; Grand River Avenue extends to the northwest. In the middle of the 19th century, the trail was expanded into a plank road that became one of the first state trunkline highways in the early 20th century, designated M-16. (This article is part of a featured topic: U.S. Highways in Michigan.)
Rschen7754, Imzadi1979 and anyone else interested: thoughts and edits (up to 1025 characters total) are welcome. There's no rush; this hasn't been scheduled at TFA yet. This batch finishes up blurbs for FACs promoted in 2016. - Dank (push to talk) 18:58, 26 January 2020 (UTC)