The Busiest Road In the World at one time not counting city streets The Dunes Highway I'll get around to writing a little history of the Dunes Highway to post here along with maps someday. It is basically the Indiana portion of U.S. 12. For now you will have to settle for a few old, annotated newspaper articles.
11 May, 1899, Porter County Vidette 17 June, 1904, Chesterton Tribune 28 September, 1911, Chesterton Tribune 6 November, 1913, Hobart News clarified 27 July, 1916, Chesterton Tribune 17 August, 1916, Michigan City Evening Dispatch signed Chicago-Michigan route, which included what became the Dunes Highway 20 January, 1919, Michigan City Evening News Dunes Highway Association created 11 June, 1919, Michigan City Evening News 8 July, 1919, Gary Evening Post 10 July, 1919, Chesterton Tribune 31 July, 1919, Chesterton Tribune 4 September, 1919, Chesterton Tribune 12 February, 1920, Chesterton Tribune 11 May, 1921, Michigan City Evening News 2 August, 1922, Valparaiso Evening Messenger 23 October, 1941, Chesterton Tribune 30 October, 1941, Chesterton Tribune
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