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(There is a short section of old Jefferson Highway off US 71 in Cheneyville.) US 71 and LA 456 to Lamourie. (Part of LA 456 at Lecompte is known as Jefferson Highway.) LA 470, US 71-167 (briefly), and Old Baton Rouge Highway to Alexandria. Alexandria to Pineville:
When the Jefferson Highway auto trail was designated in 1916, Clay Cut and Hope Villa Roads became part of the new road (there is now another Claycut Road in Baton Rouge, located south of the present-day LA-73). When Louisiana numbered their highways in 1921 plan, Jefferson Highway was designated Louisiana Highway 1.
Portions of LA 1 at Reserve and Gramercy are still known as Jefferson Highway to this day. From Geismar to Baton Rouge, the route followed what is known as Old Jefferson Highway to downtown Baton Rouge. The original routing through downtown Baton Rouge followed Claycut Road, South Acadian Thruway, Government Street, 19th Street, and North ...
It is south of Baton Rouge and north of Gonzales. Prairieville is an expanding bedroom suburb of Baton Rouge. Its name is derived from the once plentiful pastures and prairies that were visible from Highway 73 (Jefferson Hwy.) and Airline Highway, which is now covered with development. Prairieville started off as a quiet community with few people.
Louisiana Highway 74 (LA 74) is a state highway located in southeastern Louisiana. It runs 10.67 miles (17.17 km) in an east–west direction from LA 75 in St. Gabriel to U.S. Highway 61 (US 61) north of Gonzales. Much of LA 74 traverses a string of newer residential subdivisions growing out of the Baton Rouge metropolitan area.
Louisiana Highway 3154 (LA 3154) runs 3.16 miles (5.09 km) in a north–south direction from LA 48 in Harahan to US 61 in Metairie, Jefferson Parish. [6] The route initially heads north on Hickory Avenue, an undivided two-lane thoroughfare, from LA 48 (Jefferson Highway) in Harahan. At Roberts Street, signs direct traffic onto Dickory Avenue, a ...
Louisiana Highway 964 (LA 964) runs 15.28 miles (24.59 km) in a general southeast to northwest direction from US 61 north of Baton Rouge, East Baton Rouge Parish to a local road at Riddle, West Feliciana Parish. [15] As of 2018, a portion of LA 964 is under agreement to be removed from the state highway system and transferred to local control. [16]
Almost all of LA 48 follows the historic Jefferson Highway auto trail designated in 1916 and was once the main traffic route from New Orleans to Baton Rouge and points north in the state. In 1921, this became State Route 1 in the pre-1955 Louisiana highway system and the original alignment of US 61 in 1926.