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Texas State Highway 6. or '''SH 6''', runs from the Red River , the Texas - Oklahoma boundary, to northwest of Galveston . In the Houston area, it runs north to FM 1960/Spring and south to Westheimer and Addicks . In the Bryan / College Station area it is known as the ''' Earl Rudder Freeway'''. In Hearne, it is known as Market Street. In 1997 , the Texas Legislature designated SH 6 as the ''Texas Korean War Veterans Memorial Highway''Transportation Code, ยง 225.034. Acts 1997, 75th Leg., eff. May 5, 1997.. PREVIOUS ROUTES SH 6 was one of the original twenty six state highways proposed in 1917 , overlayed on top of the King Of Trails Highway . From 1919 the routing mostly followed present day United States Highway 75 from Oklahoma to Dallas , the United States Highway 77 to Waco . In 1926 , SH 6 was extended along the eastern Gulf Division branch of Texas State Highway 2 in order to keep '''SH 2''' from having two separate highways with the same number. United States Highways 75 and 77 were overlaid on northern SH 6. While the routes were marked concurrently, the multiplexed SH 6 kept its numbering until 1939 , when SH 6 was truncated to the Gulf Division routing. In 1945 the roadway was extended northwest to Cisco along '''SH 67''' and '''SH 157''', which were decommissioned, and with some small reroutings and adjustments, was in its current routing by 1975 . REFERENCES |
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