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In the United States, the first documented use of a
painted center line was in 1911 along Trenton’s River Road in Wayne County,
Michigan. The idea of using a painted center line was conceived in 1911
by Edward N. Hines, the chairman of the Wayne County, Michigan, Board of
Roads, after watching a leaky milk wagon leave a white trail along a road.
In 1917, the idea of using painted center lines on
rural state highways was conceived and/or put into action in at least three
states; Michigan, Oregon and California, apparently completely independent of
one another.
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“Dead Man’s Curve” along the Marquette-Negaunee Road in
Marquette County, Michigan, shown in 1917 with its hand-painted center line.
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