New England Interstate Routes

The New England Interstate Routes were an Interstate system of marked Numbered Route s in New England , as well as New York east of the Hudson River . The routes were marked by a yellow rectangular shield with black numbers and border. Many shields were painted on Telephone Pole s. The routes were approved by the Highway Department s of the six New England states in April 1922 .Motor Sign Uniformity, New York Times , April 16 , 1922

Prior to the New England Interstate Routes, through routes were mainly marked with colored bands on telephone poles. These were assigned by direction (red for east-west, blue for north-south and yellow for imtermediate or diagonal routes). The Massachusetts Highway Commission convinced the rest of southern New England and New York to use this system in 1915 (New Hampshire and Vermont already had their own schemes, and Maine also opted out), and it was the main system until 1922. US-5: A Highway to History

The New England Interstate system, while limited to New England, was designed for expansion to the whole country. One- and two-digit numbers were assigned to major interstate routes, with three-digit routes for State Route s (marked in a rectangle, with the state abbreviation below the number). In general, odd numbers ran east-west and even numbers ran north-south. The main exception was Route 1 , which was to run along the Atlantic Coast from Florida to Calais, Maine . A few of the major Auto Trail s were not to be assigned numbers, instead being marked with letters - for instance, L for the Lincoln Highway and R for the Roosevelt International Highway .

In 1926, the routes were supplanted by the national United States Numbered Highways . Except for Route 1 , which became U.S. Route 1 , the old numbers were not used, since the U.S. Highway system uses odd numbers for north-south routes and even numbers for east-west routes. However, most of the routes that did not become U.S. Routes kept (and still have) their numbers as State Highway s.

LIST OF ROUTES

to Calais, ME (towards Saint John, Canada )

--- to Providence, RI

(Route 1) to Derby Line, VT (towards Sherbrooke, Canada )

--- to Derby, VT

(Route 22) to Provincetown, MA

to Highgate Springs, VT (towards Montreal, Canada )

to Boston, MA (Routes 1 - 6 - 7 - 28)

(Route 3) to Colebrook, NH (Route 26)

--- to Quincy, MA

--- to Plymouth, NH

--- to Lowell, MA

to Boston, MA (Routes 1 - 5 - 6 - 28)

(Route 1) to Wilmington, VT (Route 9)

to Wells, ME (Route 1)

(Route 1) to Littleton, NH (Route 18)

(Route 4) to Biddeford, ME (Route 1)

(Route 1) to Derby, VT (Route 2)

--- to Northfield, VT

--- to Coventry, VT

to White River Junction, VT (Routes 2 - 14)

(Routes 4 - 15 - 30) to White River Junction, VT (Routes 2 - 13)

(Routes 4 - 14 - 30) to Houlton, ME (towards Fredericton, Canada )

(Route 1) to Errol, NH (Route 26)

to Pawcatuck, CT (Route 1)

(Routes 1 - 25 - 26) to Montpelier, VT (Routes 12 - 14 - 25)

(Route 1) to Jackman, ME (towards Quebec City, Canada )

to Hillsdale, NY (Route 23)

to Great Barrington, MA (Routes 4 - 17)

(Route 15) to Fort Kent, Maine (towards Riviere-du-Loup, Canada )

(Routes 12 - 14 - 18) to Portland, ME (Routes 1 - 18 - 26)

--- to Bradford, VT

(Routes 1 - 18 - 25) to Colebrook, NH (Route 6)

(Route 6) to Manchester, NH (Route 6)

to Alburg, VT

--- to Vergennes, VT

(Route 1) to Newport, NH (Route 11)

--- to Hopkinton, NH

REFERENCES

New England Interstate Highways of the 1920s

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