The Topographical Oddity of Old Kellogg
Portions of the "Kellogg before Kellogg" (that is, the thoroughfare that existed prior to Route 52 cutting through the river valley) are still around, in the form of Old Kellogg Road. However, since Route 52's advent, both ends of the road are severed off from the highway...
(Pictured: the southbound end of Old Kellogg, past concrete barriers.)
One would think it would be an easy task to find the abandoned sections of roadway from when Old Kellogg used to serve the same function as Route 52.
Let's start on the northern end of the road and work our way south.
This stretch in the road obviously hasn't been paved in quite some time. It could even be original pavement, back when this was Kellogg Avenue...except that there are no center lines.
That pavement forms the sharp curve on the left side of this aerial view.
What is odd is how the road simply disappears. Past a certain point, the land becomes private property, and is difficult for motor vehicles to pass through anyway. More importantly, it is apparently gravel and not paved concrete.
So...could this short spur of road have simply been for the houses that are there? Unfortunately, that isn't correct...
...for a couple of miles southeast of that road, Old Kellogg reappears!
Here's another view of the Old Kellogg cutoff, just past the Ten Mile Road intersection:
It is possible to view the path that the southwestern cutoff took through the forest via an aerial view, but the past is lost north of the cutoff on the other end.
So, topographical buffs, what's the explanation? Was the roadway torn up and filled in with trees after US 52 was constructed? And how long has it been this way?
Food for thought...