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Interstate 495 (I-495) is an 11.47-mile-long (18.46 km) auxiliary Interstate Highway in the US state of Delaware. The highway, named the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Highway, serves as a six-lane bypass of I-95 around the city of Wilmington. I-495 begins at an interchange with I-95 and I-295 near Newport to the southwest of Wilmington.
The first Pennsylvania Department of Highways road maps were issued in September 1912, per "First Map Showing the State Roads". Harrisburg Telegraph . September 26, 1912. p. 7.
US 113 heads northeast from US 13 as a four-lane divided highway and intersects American Legion Drive (unsigned MD 359B), which leads to MD 359 (Bypass Road). The U.S. Highway crosses Town Branch, a tributary of the Pocomoke River, and leaves the Pocomoke City area after intersecting MD 756 (Old Snow Hill Road).
The longest auxiliary U.S. Highway in Maryland is US 301 at 123.30 miles (198.43 km). The shortest auxiliary U.S. Highway in Maryland is US 522 at 2.37 miles (3.81 km). All U.S. Highways are maintained by the Maryland State Highway Administration except for the portions that run through Baltimore, Hagerstown, and Cumberland. Maryland has five ...
Vietnam Veterans Memorial Highway may refer to: Interstate 84 in Idaho; Interstate 84 in Oregon; Delaware Expressway; Interstate 291 (Connecticut) Interstate 95 in Pennsylvania between the Delaware state line and Interstate 295; Interstate 295 in Pennsylvania between the Scudder Falls Bridge and Interstate 95; Interstate 495 (Delaware)
I-81 at the Pennsylvania state line near Hagerstown: 1959 [6] current I-83: 34.50: 55.52 Fayette Street and President Street in Baltimore: I-83 at the Pennsylvania state line at Maryland Line: 1959 [6] current I-95: 109.01: 175.43 I-95 / I-495 at the Virginia state line near Oxon Hill: I-95 at the Delaware state line near Elkton: 1963 [7] current
The highway was paved as a state-aid road by 1921 and rebuilt as a state road in 1923. [ 16 ] [ 17 ] US 13's present bypass of Delmar was completed in 1954 concurrent with the adjacent section of US 13 in Delaware bypassing Laurel and Seaford .
In 1930 and again in 1932, the Delaware State Highway Department recommended giving numbers to state roads to supplement the existing U.S. Highway System. [2] [3] By 1936, Delaware began assigning numbers to state routes. [4] In 1956, the Interstate Highway System was created, with under 40 miles of Interstate highway legislated in New Castle ...