The Second Little House on M-43

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.