The South Side of Mulliken

Mulliken's southern town line is Grand Ledge Highway. This road's been a state highway since around 1920, when it was designated as Michigan 39; it became M-43 in 1936 or '37 and has remained so ever since. Over nine decades the town's commercial district has mostly migrated from Main Street--which parallels the railway--to M-43, where the automobiles pass through (or by) town. Just outside the village, on the south side of 43, there are a half-dozen houses. The large Italianate place at the end of Potter Street likely predates the village--it was George Potter's home in 1895, and probably his father's before that. The rest of the south-of-43 houses are small places. Each was built tiny , then expanded; the results are various, and variously interesting. I was planning to show you the entire set, but somehow that mini-project got lost in the shuffle. I did photograph another of the little houses . ========== I'm not certain why I didn't post this photo to 366 Snaps. The perhaps-overprocessed daffies image I did post is fine, but so's this one. ========== This photograph is an outtake from my 2012 photo-a-day project, 366 Snaps . Number of project photos taken: 13 Title of " roll :" Around Mulliken Other photos taken on 3/11/2012: Joan and I visited Michigan Audubon's Bernard Baker Sanctuary, where I took 103 images using the Sony Cybershot. And was so taken by Joan's Nikon 1 that I ordered one for m'self. As you'll see, this also was the day I began/resumed taking more than one photo shoot each day. ========== Sources: The wonderful Michigan Highways website provided my M-43 dates. Wikipedia's M-43 page has slightly different details, but tells substantially the same story.The 1895 plat map for Roxand Township shows the big house on George Potter's land.

My personal favorite for the walk. Continuing/resuming my series of monochrome pix of the houses on the south side of M-43.

Last week there was a "For Sale" sign in this yard. The sign's gone and they've done a bit of exterior work, and it looks like some remodelling going on inside. Another of the M-43 monochromes.