Michigan Automobile Dealers Association

Michigan Automobile Dealers Association is a Michigan historical marker in Ingham County, dedicated 1987.

1500 Kendale Blvd., East Lansing

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In 1920 the Michigan Automotive Trade Association was founded in Detroit. On May 19, 1921, the group was incorporated with the following officers: G. S. Garber, president; H. H. Shuart, secretary; and Clark Graves, treasurer. The association’s purpose is to promote and protect the interests of franchised automobile dealers. In 1937 the association moved from Detroit to Lansing and changed its name to the Michigan Automobile Dealers Association. The 100th anniversary of the first gasoline-powered automobile patent was celebrated in 1986. To commemorate this milestone, President Ronald Reagan proclaimed 1986 the “Centennial Year of the Gasoline Powered Automobile.” In Michigan’s sesquicentennial year, 1987, the association had 850 members.

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Digital Commonwealth, Boston Public Library

Historical maps covering this location

1873 · (Map of Ingham County, Michigan) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1873 · Michigan. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1897 · Southern Michigan. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1907 · Map of the original swamp areas of the lower peninsula of Michigan. : 1907. Compiled from… (University of Michigan Library)
1911 · Map of the surface formations of the Southern Peninsula of Michigan (Digital Commonwealth, Boston Public Library)

Southern Michigan, 1897, covering the location of Michigan Automobile Dealers Association, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — Southern Michigan, 1897, covering this location. David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.

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