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U.S. Route 70 (US 70) enters the state of Tennessee from Arkansas via the Memphis & Arkansas Bridge in Memphis, and runs west to east across 21 counties in all three Grand Divisions of Tennessee, with a total length of 478.48 miles (770.04 km), to end at the North Carolina state line in eastern Cocke County.
State Route 1 (SR 1), known as the Memphis to Bristol Highway, is a 538.8-mile-long (867.1 km) mostly-unsigned state highway in the U.S. state of Tennessee. It stretches from the Arkansas state line at Memphis in the southwest corner of the state to Bristol in the northeast part.
In 1935, US 72 was routed to Memphis through Mississippi from Corinth removing the extension on US 45 to Selmer. As late as the early 1970s, US 72 followed State Route 57 (Poplar Avenue) from Collierville to its western terminus at East Parkway N. (which carried US 64, US 70 , and US 79 , as well as State Route 1 ).
I-40 east of Knoxville with the highest peaks of the Great Smoky Mountains visible. In Nashville, the segment linking 46th Avenue with I-65 opened to traffic on March 15, 1971. [147] The Memphis section from US 51 to Chelsea Avenue, including the Midtown interchange with I-240 (then I-255), opened on July 14 of that year. [148]
Interstate 55 (I-55) is part of the Interstate Highway System that runs from LaPlace, Louisiana, to Chicago, Illinois.In the state of Tennessee, the Interstate is located entirely within the state's second-largest city of Memphis, running 12.28 miles (19.76 km) from the Mississippi state line in the Whitehaven neighborhood to the Arkansas border across the Mississippi River.
Interstate 26. Connecting directly from I-81, I-26 offers another major corridor for travel between East Tennessee and the Carolinas. Motorists can use this route to travel south from I-81 toward ...
MS 301 at Mississippi state line in Memphis: US 72/SR 57 in Collierville: 1983: current SR 176: 6.1: 9.8 Getwell Road at Mississippi state line in Southaven: I-240 in Memphis: 1983: current SR 177: 13.11: 21.10 Winchester Road near SR 385 in Memphis: US 70/US 79/SR 1 in Lakeland: 1983: current SR 178: 11.5: 18.5
The Great Indian Warpath from Knoxville to Abingdon, Virginia, became a wagon road known as the Old Stage Road, and was used extensively by early Tennesseans and travelers from other states. [ 15 ] In 1911, a series of Tennessee businesspeople formed the Memphis to Bristol Highway Association to encourage the state to improve the network of ...