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Before the construction of M-59, old Elizabeth Lake Road dead-ended at Waterbury Road. Here a motorist traveling west would turn left and head south on Waterbury, then turn right and head west again on Grubb Road (now East Livingston Road) to Highland Station. For a time this intersection was informally known as Hines' Corners in honor of a family which lived on the southeast corner. Shortly after World War II, however, Ray "Stub" Steele opened a machine shop and auto parts store on the northeast corner of what was by then the intersection of M-59 and Waterbury Road. As a result, the area soon came to be called Stubs (or Stub's) Corners. Although located one-half mile west of Duck Lake Road, Stubs Corners has come to be thought of as part of "greater East Highland," especially since development of the intervening parcels on both sides of M-59. The photo below shows the original Stubs Auto Parts building, looking north.
