1749
"Come to Detroit" campaign is introduced. In an effort to attract settlers to Detroit, the governor general of New France (Canada) offered each man who would settle there a spade, an axe, a cow, a sow, a ploughshare, one large and one small wagon and seed. Over the course of two years, more than one hundred persons accepted the offer.
Source: Michigan History
1825
Survey began on the Chicago Road, a military road between Detroit and Chicago. It followed the Old Sauk Trail now U.S. 12. Source: Historical Society of Michigan