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Corner of Pine StreetPrior to the construction of Interstate 75, Fort Street, along with Dix-Toledo Highway and West Jefferson Avenue, was the best way to get from Downriver into Detroit. Today, it is still a major boulevard through eastern Downriver, designated as M-85.

The road itself actually begins within Detroit proper. That portion is covered on the Detroit Wiki.

Short history of the M-85 designation

M-85 as it exists today is actually it's third incarnation, it was previously used between 1919 and 1941 in two different locations elsewhere in Michigan. This current form of M-85 came into being in 1956 extending from Gibraltar Road to Oakwood Boulevard. M-85 was then cut back to end at I-75 near Schaefer Highway after I-75 through Downriver was completed in 1967, only to be extended back up to Oakwood and then, for the first time in it's existence, east into downtown Detroit, as part of a larger series of streets around downtown Detroit being acquired by the city from MDOT and vice-versa, in 2001.

Fort Road

 An older alignment of Fort Street, also known as Fort Road, branches off of the newer road in Gibraltar, just north of Gibraltar Road. It travels southwest of Gibraltar, parallel to Interstate 75, and goes through Rockwood before becoming Dixie Highway at the Monroe County border.

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Odd-numbered addresses are on the east side of the street.

Lincoln Park

NOTE: Beginning at Goddard Road, all Lincoln Park addresses listed are on the west side of Fort Street until Lincoln Park ends at Brest Street.

Wyandotte

NOTE: Brest Street marks the northern city limit of Southgate. The Wyandotte addresses below are all on the east side of Fort Street. Southgate's Fort Street addresses are all on the west side of Fort Street until Wyandotte ends at Quarry Road. For clarity's sake, the Southgate addresses are listed in a separate section below after this section.

Southgate

Riverview

NOTE: Beginning at Sibley Road, all Riverview addresses listed are on the west side of Fort Street until Riverview ends at King Road.

Trenton

NOTE: All Trenton addresses below are all on the east side of Fort Street until King Road.

Gibraltar

NOTE: The Gibraltar addresses below are all on the east side of Fort Street. When the road splits just north of Gibraltar Road, there are no addresses on the newer Fort Street alignment, therefore all addresses after the split are on the older Fort Street alignment.

Brownstown Township

NOTE: The Brownstown Township addresses below are all on the west side of Fort Street until Gibraltar ends at Ostreich Road.

Rockwood

At this point, Fort Street becomes Dixie Highway.

 

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