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M-209 was first assumed as a state trunkline in the 1920s. A newspaper article in 1957 noted that that M-209 provided access to
Sleeping Bear Dune, the country's largest moving sand dune. The article also noted that if it wasn't for the tourists visiting, that thee dune would probably have swallowed
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Manitou islands. The northern terminus of M-209 was located in front of the former US Coast Guard Life Saving
Station, now restored as a maritime museum. The museum is located at the intersection of Glen Haven Road and Sleeping Bear Dunes Road. At the time of decommissioning, M-209 was a two-lane,
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From its inception in the 1920s, M-209 was
Michigan's shortest highway. It connected the small community of Glen Haven to M-109 just south of the community. Glen Haven was founded as a settlement called Sleeping Bearville with a sawmill and an inn, the Sleeping Bear House, in 1857. By 1881, there
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up the roadway that was "so small the road maps don't even show it". It would later serve the national lakeshore when the park was created on
October 21, 1970. The Park Service purchased all of the village by the mid-1970s. The highway was turned over to
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were 11 buildings in the community. The lifesaving station was built in 1901 and moved to its present location in 1931 before closing in 1941.
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M-209 was the short connector route from M-109 to the Glen Haven unit of the
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Former state highway in Glen Haven, Leelanau County, Michigan, United States
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877:"The Long and Short of It: Five Unique Michigan Highways"
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494:References
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308:Glen Arbor
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183:Interstate
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950:KML file
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627:(n.d.).
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475:See also
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421:Notes
380:M-212
345:is a
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246:M-209
233:M-211
218:M-208
193:State
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104:near
102:M-109
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959:help
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803:OCLC
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