page_title: M-87 (Michigan highway)
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: M-87 (Michigan highway) / History
caption_attribution_description: English: An M-87 marker in Fenton, Michigan.
context_page_description: M-87 is the designation of a former state trunkline highway in the Lower Peninsula of the US state of Michigan, which prior to 1960 ran east–west between the towns of Fenton and Holly. The highway served as a connector between US Highway 23 and the former routing of US 10, which ran along what is now the Interstate 75 corridor. The highway connected the downtown areas of each community as well as running through then-rural areas of Genesee and Oakland counties. The trunkline was decommissioned in late 1960, removing it from the system.
context_section_description: M-87 was assumed into the state trunkline system by July 1, 1919, when the system was first signed. At the time, the highway connected M-65 in Fenton with M-10 east of Holly. Later when the United States Numbered Highway System was created on November 11, 1926, those two highways were renumbered US 23 and US 10 respectively. The highway was fully paved in 1937. In 1958, Fenton was bypassed by the Fenton–Clio Expressway to the west of downtown and the former route through downtown was redesignated Bus. US 23. M-87 was removed from the state trunkline system and turned back to local control in late 1960.
caption: M-87 on November 1, 1956
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