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The Louisville and Nashville Turnpike [a] was a toll road that ran from Louisville, Kentucky to Nashville, Tennessee during the 19th century. From Louisville, one route now designated US 31W ran through Elizabethtown , Munfordville , Glasgow Junction (now Park City) , Bowling Green , and Franklin before crossing into Tennessee.
U.S. Route 41 Alternate (US 41 Alt.), also signed U.S. Route 41A in Tennessee (US 41A), connects the town of Monteagle, Tennessee, with Hopkinsville, Kentucky, 10 miles (16 km) north of the Tennessee line. It serves the city of Clarksville, Tennessee, on its way to Nashville, where it briefly runs concurrently with US 41.
U.S. Route 31W (US 31W) is the westernmost of two parallel routes for U.S. Route 31 from Nashville, Tennessee to Louisville, Kentucky. Tennessee State Route 41 (SR 41) is its unsigned companion route in Tennessee. During the December 2021 tornado outbreak, an EF3 tornado devastated stretches of US 31W in Bowling Green, Kentucky. [4] [5]
U.S. Route 41 (US 41) is a United States Numbered Highway that runs from Miami, Florida, to Copper Harbor, Michigan.In Tennessee, the highway is paralleled by Interstate 24 all the way from Georgia to Kentucky, and I-24 has largely supplanted US-41 as a major highway, especially for large and heavy vehicles, such as tractor-trailer trucks and buses.
This proposed route was extended southwest to Centerville in 1938 and Jackson in 1944 via State Route 100 and State Route 20. US 31W would have become the main route of US 31. Kentucky and Tennessee refused to accept the renumbering and never changed signage for the routes.
The recreation area is situated on an inland peninsula between Kentucky Lake (the Tennessee River) and Lake Barkley (the Cumberland River). [6] It passes through the sites of the defunct towns of Tharpe and Model , the latter of which is home to the remnants of an old furnace, as well as the 1850s Homeplace living history farm before the road ...
According to the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet, the storm impacted roads in nearly all of Kentucky’s 120 counties. At least 344 state highways were closed from flooding, 14 were closed due to ...
In 1953, US 431 was extended into Tennessee and Kentucky from the Huntsville, Alabama area. From 1929 until 1953, the US 431 corridor in Kentucky was originally signed as Kentucky Routes 75 and 81 . KY 75 ran from Owensboro to KY 81 at South Carrollton, while KY 81 ran its current course, plus the rest of US 431's original route from South ...