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The route was designated in 1979, on the former route of M-131 to avoid confusion with US 131 , which ends in Petoskey. Ironically, M-131 had originally been designated on the remainder of what had been M-13 when most of M-13 had been designated as US 131 in 1926. At that time, M-131 ran from Fife Lake to Harbor Springs . Over several years, the M-131 route was improved, and in 1938, the US-131 designation supplanted most of M-131's former route from Fife Lake to meet its "parent" route, US 31 , in Petoskey. Although the M-131 designation had been extended to Cross Village in 1933, that was cancelled in 1937, and so, by 1938, the route of M-131 was co-signed with US 31 from Petoskey to Bay View, and ended at Harbor Springs. By 1945, the road from Harbor Springs to Cross Village is re-added to M-131's route. In 1979, all of M-131 from Bay View to Cross Village is redesignated as M-119. According to Chris Bessert's Michigan Highways web site, the initial designation may have included the portion of M-131 that had been co-signed with US 31 from US 131 through Bay View, but there is no evidence that M-119 signs ever appeared on the concurrent route. In 1928, the first incarnation of the M-119 designation ran four miles from Paw Paw south to Lawton in Van Buren County . In 1931, the route was extended south to Marcellus in Cass County and then again in 1933 to Jones and in 1935 to Mottville , thus providing a route between the old US 12 route in Paw Paw and US 112 in Mottville. In 1971, all of M-119 was redesignated as M-40 . EXTERNAL LINKS |
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