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The Civil War Trust (a division of the American Battlefield Trust) and its partners have acquired and preserved 947 acres (3.83 km 2) of the Port Republic battlefield in seven transactions since 1988. [10] The battlefield is located about three miles east of Port Republic at U.S. Route 340 and Ore Bank Road. It retains its wartime agrarian ...
Moving northward, the road quickly exits the park, roughly paralleling the Smith River located to the west side of the road. The road then follows the river northward and then northwestward with several local roads meeting SR 197 along the evergreen forest area. The road meets its northern terminus at U.S. Route 101 just south of the Oregon ...
The Civil War Trust's Civil War Discovery Trail is a heritage tourism program that links more than 600 U.S. Civil War sites in more than 30 states. The program is one of the White House Millennium Council's sixteen flagship National Millennium Trails.
A road roughly following about 100 miles (160 km) of the southern end of the current alignment was in place by 1919. However, instead of entering Oregon en route to Adel, the road veered westward through Washoe County towards Vya and Cedarville, California. [5] By 1929, this alignment had been established as State Route 8A. [6]
US 395 was truncated to its present southern terminus at Hesperia in 1964; its former alignment to San Diego was replaced by I-15, I-215, and other highways. Other sections were moved to freeways and bypasses of various cities, including I-82 between Oregon and Washington, I-90 in Eastern Washington, and I-580 in Nevada.
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SR 3A first appears on state highway maps in 1933 as an unimproved road stretching from the California–Nevada state line to the junction of State Route 3 (now US 95) and State Route 15 (now US 6) at Coaldale. [3] The route's northern terminus appears to have been shifted 8 miles (13 km) west of Coaldale around 1937. [4]
Per Nevada Historical Marker number 124, located along the route near Minden, this portion of US 395 was originally built as a toll road called Boyd's Toll Road. The original state route designations for modern US 395 was SR 9 north of Reno, SR 3 Reno to Holbrook (at the modern junction of US 395 and SR 208 ) and SR 19 from there to the state ...