American Auto Trail-Kentuckys U.S. Highway 41 (American Auto Trails)

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Route 25W to Knoxville, and U.

Dixie Highway

Route 70 and U. Route 27 to Chattanooga. The eastern division took a more direct route than the western between Chattanooga and Atlanta, following the modern U. Route 41 all the way, but it followed a more circuitous path south of Atlanta. Traffic left Atlanta to the east on U. Route , following U. Route , Georgia State Route 24 , a short section of U.

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Route , and Georgia State Route 21 to Savannah. There, the route turned south along the coast via U. Route 17 to Jacksonville and U. Route 1 to Miami. It is today a major street in towns and cities along the Florida East Coast.

The Central route was a short cutoff between the western division at Macon, Georgia , and the eastern route at Jacksonville, Florida , forming a shorter route to Miami than the western on its own; it followed U. Route , Georgia State Route 32 , and U. The Carolina route cut the distance between Knoxville and Waynesboro, Georgia , on the eastern route. It is now U. Route 25W and U. Route 25 , and passes through Asheville , Greenville , and Augusta on its way to the eastern route and Savannah. Much of the eastern route—and all the Carolina route—became U. Then the primary eastern route Knoxville to Macon was largely paralleled and in some sections replaced by Interstate 75 , which runs from Miami, Florida , to Sault Ste.

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Large portions of the former US 25 in western Ohio ultimately ended up in after Interstate 75's completion in that area as County Road 25A, or alternatively, as Dixie Road. The eastern portion from Jacksonville, Florida south was largely replaced with U. In most of the cities it traverses in Kentucky, it is still referred to as "Dixie Highway" or "Dixie Avenue". From Nashville to Indianapolis, the route parallels Interstate Portions of this stretch were originally parts of the Louisville and Nashville Turnpike , which began construction in the s.

The name "Dixie Highway" persists in various locations along its route where the main flow of long-distance traffic has been rerouted to more modern highways and the old Dixie Highway remains as a local road. Route 1 , sometimes just a block away. In western North Carolina, seven bronze plaques on granite pillars were placed by the United Daughters of the Confederacy in the late s to mark the route which today follows US 25 of the Dixie Highway and honor General Robert E. These markers can be found in the towns of Hot Springs, Marshall, Asheville, Fletcher, and Hendersonville, and on the South Carolina and Tennessee state lines; an eighth monument of identical type can be found on US 25 in downtown Greenville, South Carolina.

The name Dixie Highway is also still commonly used in portions of Michigan's Lower Peninsula, such as in the Waterford area, where it is a major thoroughfare known as US Dixie Highway retains its name running south from Chicago through the towns of Posen , Harvey , and Homewood to the town of Chicago Heights.

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Here it joins Illinois Route 1 , which runs contiguous with the old Dixie Highway's original course. In Indiana, the only portion of the Highway that retains its name is located in southwestern Bedford. Fisher played in the development of the Dixie Highway nor the importance of the Dixie Highway itself.

In some cities and towns, Dixie Highway is the north—south axis of the street numbering system. The extension of development westward means that the northwest and southwest quadrants of the grid defined in this manner are generally much larger than the northeast and southeast ones which are constrained by the Atlantic Ocean. Also, the route of Dixie Highway generally parallels the coast, often running diagonally instead of straight north and south, causing irregularities in the numbering system. This is one of the few extant portions of the original brick Dixie Highway left in Florida.

On April 20, , it was added to the U.

National Register of Historic Places. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Not to be confused with Dixie Overland Highway. Bureau of National Literature. Organized Knowledge in Story and Picture.

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Background and construction

Among the other cities served by the route were, from east to west, Springfield , Ill. While the system of numbered routes was a federal creation, the actual construction of roads to carry those routes was left to the individual states. Laid in part over preexisting auto trails, Route 66 was thus built in segments, often discontinuous ones, and was not entirely paved until The original route was officially commissioned to stretch a total of 2, miles 3, km , but, once built, it fell short of that figure.

Over the years a number of projects relocated sections of the route, usually with the effect of further shortening it. Only the segment passing through Kansas , all of 13 miles 21 km in length, remained unaltered. The elimination of a diversion through Santa Fe in cut more than miles km from the route. These projects reflected a deeper change in the perceived purpose of the national highways: To the same end, Route 66 was rerouted around most larger towns and cities in order to avoid slower local traffic.

The development of novel methods of merchandising to the transient customer that became commonplace in midth-century America—drive-in and drive-up businesses, fast food, motor inns, and roadside advertising—can to a great degree be traced to the influence of Route 66 in those towns. From to a television series of the same name featured two adventurers who cruised the highway in a Chevrolet Corvette sports car.

At the same time, the rapid expansion in traffic meant that Route 66, even more than many other interstate routes, was carrying far more vehicles than it was designed to bear. More and heavier traffic, more stringent safety requirements, and improved construction methods created a demand for a new kind of federal highway system. By the time Pres. Eisenhower signed the Federal-Aid Highway Act of , a few segments of Route 66 had already been superseded by newer, wider, and safer roads.

The act authorized federal funding for an Interstate Highway System of such roads, and, despite an appeal by the state of Missouri on behalf of all the Route 66 states, there was to be no Interstate Route 66 gradually was replaced by portions of several of the new high-speed limited-access superhighways.

In many places these highways paralleled the old route or were built over its right-of-way. By the route had ceased to exist in Illinois , and in October the last segment was bypassed in Arizona. Route 66 was formally decommissioned on June 27, Many private individuals, organizations, and towns have preserved portions of the roadway, businesses that throve on it, or collections of memorabilia.

Among several museums dedicated to the route are those in Clinton, Okla.

Rise and demise of the route

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