• Michigan highway M-97 was simultaneously named both Reid Highway and Groesbeck Highway by different levels of government from 1927 until 1949, the year it was dedicated to Alex Groesbeck?

Facts on topics related to Alex Groesbeck

Dearborn, Michigan

• Ford Road in Dearborn, Michigan, was named for William Ford, father of Henry?

Detroit

• Confederate spy Thomas Hines (pictured, left) had to escape Detroit by ferryboat due to being confused with assassin John Wilkes Booth (pictured, right)?
• ribbon farms established near Detroit were only 150 feet (46 m) wide, but up to 3 miles (4.8 km) long?
• The Village of Rochester Hills is the first retail lifestyle center in the Detroit area of the United States?
• Congregation Shaarey Zedek constructed five new synagogue buildings in fewer than 100 years as it followed its congregants toward the Detroit suburbs?
• since the 1920s, the Whittier Hotel in Detroit, Michigan, has hosted Horace Dodge, Eleanor Roosevelt, Mae West, Frank Sinatra, and The Beatles?
• the equestrian statue of Tadeusz Kościuszko (pictured), Polish American hero of independence, which was erected around 1920 at the Wawel Castle in Kraków, Poland, has a duplicate in Detroit, Michigan?
• the Romanesque St. Charles Borromeo Church (pictured) in Detroit, Michigan, serves a parish that was established to minister to Belgian immigrants to the city?
• the smoking room of the D&C steamer City of Detroit III (pictured) was put on display at a museum on Belle Isle in Detroit, Michigan, after the ship was dismantled?
• the Eastside Historic Cemetery District (pictured) in Detroit, Michigan, contains the graves of 29 Detroit mayors, at least 6 governors, 11 senators, and a dozen cabinet members?
• the Isaac Agree Downtown Synagogue is the only functioning synagogue building in the city of Detroit, Michigan?

Grosse Pointe

• the Grosse Pointe Presbyterian church was renamed the Grosse Pointe Memorial Church in 1925 after John and Truman Newberry paid for a new sanctuary in honor of their parents?