Sources

• Report of the State Tax Commission and the State Board of Assessors, 1900

Length in miles, 5; Charter, 1852; Expiration, 1902; Reported cost, $10,250; Present value, $3,090.

• The Plank Roads of Michigan, D. Farrand Henry, in The Michigan Engineer 1901
• http://aaobserver.aadl.org/aaobserver/36082

O'Connor began poring over old township minutes and budgets, plat maps, and other records. She discovered that Lodi Township was named after an area near New York's Finger Lakes and was established in 1834, three years before Michigan became a state. She learned that Ann Arbor-Saline Road was originally a plank road and charged a toll of a penny per horse.