Edward N. Hines, a member of Ashlar Lodge 91 in Detroit, was an innovator in the early development of highways. In 1909, he designed and built the first mile of paved road in the world, a stretch of Woodward Avenue between Six and Seven Mile roads in Detroit. In 1893 he published the first road tourbook and even in the infancy of their development started a movement for highway beautification. In 1911, a leaky milk wagon he was following led him to develop one of the greatest highway safety features of all. The wagon was leaking a trail of white milk near the center of the road when Brother Hines got the idea for a white line to separate lanes, a standard feature on every highway in the world today.
