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U.S. Route 66 or U.S. Highway 66 (US 66 or Route 66) is one of the original highways in the United States Numbered Highway System. It was established on November 11, 1926, with road signs erected the following year. [ 3 ]
The last alignment of National Old Trails Road in California (and the first alignment of U.S. Route 66) followed a distinct course from the modern-day route between Daggett and Essex, California, and now survives only as a series of now-disconnected jeep trails and abandoned tracks in various stages of decay. The modern-day Route 66 in ...
Here's a rundown of what's still there when you drive cross-country and how things have changed along the famed "Mother Road."
Interstate 66 (Kansas–Kentucky), a former proposed highway to connect Kansas with Kentucky U.S. Route 66 , the most common meaning. Since 1985, when US 66 was decommissioned, several states where US 66 passed have re-commissioned part of the former route in that state as a state route 66.
Between Middletown and East Hampton, modern Route 66 was the western half of the Colchester and Chatham Turnpike (the eastern half is modern Route 16), which was chartered in 1808. From East Hampton via Marlborough to the Hebron-Columbia line, the road was the Hebron and Middle Haddam Turnpike that was chartered in 1802.
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