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Passage of the State Reward Trunk Line
Highways Act on May 13, 1913, provided for 3,000 miles (4,828 km) of roadways in a state-financed system. No division of the original system included Gull Road between Kalamazoo and Richland, but it was included as a state reward road by the following year.
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490:"Kalamazoo Accepts Control of State Trunklines Spanning City"
812:. Fort Wayne, Indiana: Fort Wayne Printing. pp. 31–35.
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