However, that roadway was later renamed to honor the Project Mercury space program of NASA at Langley Air Force Base.
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Of the federally appropriated funds for surveys roads and canals of national importance President James Monroe allocated one third of the sum to surveying a military highway connecting Detroit, Michigan with Fort Dearborn in Chicago, Illinois.
As originally built, the road was earlier known as "Military Highway", a name it shared with another roadway in South Hampton Roads which was built beginning in 1943.