Traverse City's Automotive History
By Ross Boissoneau | Jan. 24, 2021
A speed limit of eight miles per hour. Traverse City’s first automobile fatality. The Napoleon.
A look back at the history of the automobile in Traverse City showcases technological advances and business failures, the foibles of early driving machines and more.
An entry in the Daily Eagle newspaper dated Sept. 8, 1903, notes that automobiles “shall not be run at a speed exceeding eight miles an hour” in an area defined by Garfield Avenue, Carver and Seventeenth Streets on the south and Elmwood Avenue on the west. However, speed demons outside that area were given more leeway, as cars could go up to 12 miles per hour elsewhere in the ...
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