Length:	2372.57[] mi (3818.28 km)
Formed:	1926
South end:	Fleming Street in Key West, FL
Major junctions:	US 41 in Miami, FL I-10 in Jacksonville, FL I-26 near Columbia, SC I-40 in Raleigh, NC I-64 in Richmond, VA US 50 in Washington, DC US 40 in Baltimore, MD I-76 in Philadelphia, PA I-87 in New York, NY I-90 in Boston, MA
North end:	Canadian border at Fort Kent, ME (continues as NB 161)
United States Numbered Highways U.S. Routes - Bannered - Divided - Replaced
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Miami, Florida Jacksonville, Florida Augusta, Georgia Columbia, South Carolina Raleigh, North Carolina Richmond, Virginia Washington, D.C. Baltimore, Maryland Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Newark, New Jersey New York City Providence, Rhode Island Boston, Massachusetts Portland, Maine

U.S. Route 1 (also called U.S. Highway 1, and abbreviated US 1) is a United States highway which parallels the east coast of the United States. It runs 2,390 miles (3846 km) from Key West, Florida in the south, to Fort Kent, Maine at the Canadian border in the north. US 1 generally parallels Interstate 95, though it is significantly farther inland (west) between Jacksonville, Florida and Petersburg, Virginia. It connects the major cities of the east coast, including: Miami, Florida; Jacksonville, Florida; Augusta, Georgia; Columbia, South Carolina; Raleigh, North Carolina; Richmond, Virginia; Washington, DC; Baltimore, Maryland; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Newark, New Jersey; New York, New York; New Haven, Connecticut; Providence, Rhode Island; Boston, Massachusetts and Portland, Maine.

Theoretically, the highway is numbered US 1 because it is the farthest east U.S. Route, and north-south highways are numbered east to west; however, several higher-numbered U.S. Routes run east of US 1, such as U.S. Route 13, the southern portion of U.S. Route 9, and most of U.S. Route 17, partly because the routes ending in 1 were intended as major routes. The location of the road was influenced by the location of the fall line between the Piedmont and the Atlantic Coastal Plain.^[1]

As of 2005, the highway's northern terminus is in Fort Kent, Maine at the Canadian border, where it crosses the Saint John River and intersects Provincial Highway 205. Its southern terminus was originally Miami, Florida and was later extended to Key West, Florida, the southwesternmost island in the Florida Keys, where it is known as the Overseas Highway.

Route description

Lengths
	mi[0]	km
FL	545.96	878.64
GA	224.64	361.52
SC	170.11	273.77
NC	174.63	281.04
VA	197.35	317.60
DC	7.01	11.28
MD	80.82	130.07
PA	81.13	130.57
NJ	66.06[3]	106.31
NY	21.69[4]	34.91
CT	117.37[5]	188.89
RI	57.17	92.01
MA	85.61[6]	137.78
NH	16.88[7]	27.17
ME	526.14	846.74
Total	2372.57	3818.28

Florida

Main article: U.S. Route 1 in Florida

In Florida, where signs for U.S. Highways formerly had different colors for each highway, the "shield" for US 1 was red. Florida began using the colored shields in 1956, but during the 1980s the MUTCD was revised to specify only a black and white color scheme for U.S. Highway shields. As such, Federal funds were no longer available to maintain the colored signs. On August 27, 1993, the decision was made to no longer produce colored signs. Since then, the remaining colored signs have gradually been replaced by black-and-white signs; at present, there are a few rare colored ones still in place.

US 1 is a designated Blue Star Memorial Highway along its entire route through the state. Markers are placed at various locations, including one in Rockledge, Florida and Fort Lauderdale, Florida. As is the case with all Florida roads with Federal designations, the entirety of US 1 has a hidden Florida Department of Transportation designation: State Road 5 south of Callahan (except for 11 miles (18 km) as SR 805 in Palm Beach County); State Road 15 north of Callahan.

US 1 begins in Key West as a local road (at the intersection of Fleming Street and Whitehead Street, turning onto Truman Avenue which itself becomes Roosevelt Boulevard) then becoming the Overseas Highway, the main highway serving the Florida Keys. The highway goes up to Florida City, becoming the Dixie Highway on the mainland. The Dixie Highway continues to Miami, with junctions to the termini of several Florida freeways along the way (Florida's Turnpike, Palmetto Expressway, Snapper Creek Expressway, and Interstate 95). In Miami, US 1 becomes Brickell Avenue and then Biscayne Boulevard as it continues near the shoreline of Biscayne Bay.

In Fort Lauderdale, there is a complex interchange with Interstate 595 at the Ft. Lauderdale International Airport. US 1 continues north as Federal Highway (also signed as SE 6th Avenue or NE 6th Avenue until merging with Sunrise Boulevard) or Dixie Highway serving the beach communities along the eastern coast. It has a junction with the Beachline Expressway in Brevard County. In mainland Daytona Beach it is called Ridgewood Avenue. US 1 eventually reaches the city of Jacksonville as the Philips Highway. US 1 then travels through downtown Jacksonville along Main Street, crossing St. Johns River on the Main Street Bridge until it reaches the 20th Street Expressway. US 1 then goes along the route of State Road 15, traveling much farther inland than Interstate 95 as it heads into the state of Georgia. US 1 will not meet up with Interstate 95 again until it reaches the state of Virginia.

A freeway alternate route in Jacksonville that bypasses the downtown area goes along the Hart Bridge Expressway, then along the Martin Luther King Jr. Parkway, which becomes the 20th Street Expressway.

State Road A1A runs next to the Atlantic Ocean, roughly parallel to US 1 for much of its path through Florida.

Georgia

Main article: U.S. Route 1 in Georgia

In Georgia, US 1 is generally a very rural highway, running through historical plantation areas. It also passes by the Fort Gordon Army installation and the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge. US 1 is also signed as State Route 4 for its entire length in the state. There is an interchange with Interstate 520 in Augusta and with Interstate 16 in Emanuel County. US 1 enters the state from Florida at Folkston and exits the state into South Carolina at Augusta.

South Carolina

Main article: U.S. Route 1 in South Carolina

US 1 enters South Carolina in North Augusta. From North Augusta to Aiken, US 1 is a divided four lane highway. It goes through the historic district of Aiken, heading north through Batesburg-Leesville, Lexington, into Columbia up to Camden. US 1 parallels Interstate 20, crossing it several times until it branches northeast at Camden. It also has junctions with Interstate 26 and Interstate 77 in Columbia. From Camden, it continues northeast as a two-lane road to the town of Cheraw and Cheraw State Park before entering the state of North Carolina. In Richland County, US 1 is known as Two Notch since the road used to be marked by posts into which two notches were carved. In downtown Columbia, US 1 is known as Gervais Street and passes directly in front of the State Capitol building. South Carolina state route 421 in Aiken County was formerly US 1 until the expressway was built in the early 1950s. There are several Jefferson Davis Memorial highway stone markers along US 1 in South Carolina.

North Carolina

Main article: U.S. Route 1 in North Carolina

From the South Carolina state line, US 1 passes through Rockingham, Southern Pines and Sanford. In stretches in Aberdeen and Sanford, the highway shares its route with U.S. 15-501. From Southern Pines to Raleigh, U.S. 1 becomes a freeway with controlled intersections, and is known as the Claude E. Pope Memorial Highway. It overlaps a portion of Interstate 440 in Raleigh, then heads north along Capital Boulevard. U.S. 1 travels north through Youngsville, Franklinton, and Kittrell to Henderson, where the highway then parallels Interstate 85 into Virginia. It generally follows the fall line between the Piedmont and the Atlantic Coastal Plain on its course through the state. US 1 runs for 208 miles (335 km) in the state.

Virginia

Main article: U.S. Route 1 in Virginia

From the North Carolina state line to Petersburg, US 1 parallels Interstate 85 and is known as VA One and Boydton Plank Road. From Petersburg northward, US 1 parallels Interstate 95 and is known in most places as the Jefferson Davis Highway. In Richmond, Route 1 changes from Jefferson Davis Highway to Cowardin Avenue to Belvedere Street to Chamberlayne Avenue and finally Brook Road. There is a portion of Route 1 that changes names to Richmond Highway along portions north of Dale City and ending at the Capital Beltway at Alexandria, becoming Henry/Patrick streets, then changing back to Jefferson Davis Highway beside the high-rise Crystal City office complex in Arlington. In the city of Fredericksburg, between Richmond and the District of Columbia, it borders the western edge of the University of Mary Washington campus. Just before entering the District of Columbia, it runs along the Southwest Freeway at the 14th Street Bridge.

District of Columbia

Main article: U.S. Route 1 in the District of Columbia

From Arlington, Virginia, US 1 enters Washington, D.C., running parallel to I-395. It follows 14th Street to Constitution Avenue, where it runs concurrently with US 50 beside the National Mall and its many museums and monuments. This concurrency continues up 6th and 9th Streets before ending at New York Avenue, where US 50 turns east toward Annapolis, Maryland. US 1 continues its solo route up 6th Street, and finally crosses from the District into the Maryland suburbs via Rhode Island Avenue.

Maryland

Main article: U.S. Route 1 in Maryland

From Washington, D.C., U.S. Route 1 (a.k.a. Rhode Island Avenue) enters Maryland in the community of Mount Rainier. From there, it passes through Brentwood, North Brentwood, Hyattsville (where it merges with Baltimore Avenue), Riverdale Park, College Park (including the University of Maryland campus), Beltsville, Muirkirk, Laurel, Savage, Jessup, Dorsey, and Elkridge, before entering Baltimore, where it follows Southwestern Boulevard, Wilkens Avenue, Monroe Street, Fulton Street, and North Avenue (the old northern boundary of Baltimore). It exits Baltimore to the northeast along Bel Air Road, through the towns of Overlea/Fullerton, Perry Hall, and Kingsville, until just north of Fallston, where Route 1 becomes the Bel Air Bypass. Finally, it becomes Conowingo Road after crossing MD Route 543. From that point north, the highway travels through rural areas to the Pennsylvania border, on a stretch which includes crossing the Susquehanna River atop the Conowingo Dam, which in 1928 was the first dam to have a highway routed on its top.

The part of US 1 between Washington and Baltimore was designated State Road 1 in 1908.^[8]

Pennsylvania

Main article: U.S. Route 1 in Pennsylvania

US 1 travels from southwest to northeast in Pennsylvania, beginning at the Maryland border as an expressway past Oxford, then as a divided highway called Baltimore Pike passing the famous Longwood Gardens, Chadds Ford, Concordville, and the town of Media, eventually becoming the border between Philadelphia(county) and Montgomery County or Bala Cynwyd as City Avenue.

It crosses the Schuylkill River and merges for about a half mile with the Schuylkill Expressway south to near Hunting Park Avenue where it turns northeast as the Roosevelt Expressway for about 5 miles.

After going under one of Philadelphia's main streets, Broad Street, it settles into being Roosevelt Boulevard, an extremely wide road with a main road section of 3 lanes in each direction, and 3 more lanes in each direction in an outer roadway for a total of 12 lanes and 3 wide landscaped islands, and frequent left turn and right turn lanes. There are many slip lanes to allow cars to change from the inner roadway to the outer roadway and vice versa.

After crossing into Bucks County north of Northeast Philadelphia Airport and near the Pennsylvania Turnpike, it becomes a divided 6-lane road again. It soon becomes a freeway passing near Sesame Place (an amusement park) and crosses the Delaware River into Trenton, New Jersey on a small toll bridge. Currently the toll is only collected southbound.

New Jersey

Main article: U.S. Route 1 in New Jersey

In New Jersey, US 1 starts in Trenton after crossing the Trenton-Morrisville Toll Bridge from Pennsylvania. It then parallels Interstate 95 and the New Jersey Turnpike while heading northeast before going over the George Washington Bridge into New York City. The route is concurrent with U.S. Route 9 north of Woodbridge, and the two routes together serve a major local artery along the I-95 corridor in northern New Jersey.

New York

Main article: U.S. Route 1 in New York

US 1 is 21.7 miles (0 km) in New York. US 1 enters Manhattan on the George Washington Bridge together with US 9 and Interstate 95. US 9 separates 0.8 miles (0 km) from the New Jersey state line heading north on Broadway, while US 1 and Interstate 95 continue for another 1.8 miles (0 km) to the Bronx. US 1 then leaves Interstate 95 (at Exit 2B) traveling for another 6.3 miles (0 km) in the Bronx before entering Westchester County. US 1 travels for 12.7 miles (0 km) in Westchester County, going through the villages/cities of Pelham Manor, New Rochelle, Larchmont, Mamaroneck, Rye and Port Chester before entering the state of Connecticut. From the Bronx to the Connecticut state line, the road is known as Boston Post Road or Boston Road, in reference to a major roadway used to deliver mail between New York and Boston dating back to the 17th Century.

List of major junctions:

• Manhattan
• NY 9A
• US 9 (northbound)
• Harlem River Drive
• Bronx
• Interstate 87
• Interstate 95 (northbound)
• Bronx River Parkway
• Westchester County
• Hutchinson River Parkway
• Interstate 95 (New Rochelle)
• Interstate 95 and Interstate 287 (Rye)

Connecticut

Main article: U.S. Route 1 in Connecticut

US 1 runs 117.37 miles (0 km) in Connecticut. US 1 in Connecticut stays close to Interstate 95 throughout the state and has many junctions with it. It goes through the following towns as the roads listed below. From Greenwich to Branford, US 1 is mostly a 4-lane or 6-lane principal arterial road (with some 2-lane sections in dense areas). From Branford to Stonington, US 1 becomes a 2-lane or 4-lane minor arterial road (it is classified as a principal arterial road within Waterford town). One note of interest is that Route 1 in Connecticut has almost a direct east-west route. Because of this, in some places, signs may say Route 1 East or West, and only a short distance away, another sign may say Route 1 North or South. This can make it confusing for those who are not familiar with the area. Most of US 1 through Connecticut encompasses its predecessor, the Boston Post Road, and much of it is still locally named Boston Post Road.

Route

Note: This section uses [] () to indicate a one-way pair. Streets appearing in [] are the northbound or eastbound side. Streets appearing in () are the southbound or westbound side. The reading order inside the brackets and parentheses is the same as outside.

Greenwich: 5.67 miles (0 km); New York State line to Stamford city line

• West Putnam Avenue and East Putnam Avenue

Stamford: 3.30 miles (0 km); Greenwich town line to Darien town line

• West Main Street, Tresser Boulevard and East Main Street

Darien: 3.91 miles (0 km); Stamford city line to Norwalk city line

• Boston Post Road

Norwalk: 5.11 miles (0 km); Darien town line to Westport town line

• Connecticut Avenue, Van Buren Avenue, Belden Avenue, Cross Street, North Avenue and Westport Avenue

Westport: 4.78 miles (0 km); Norwalk city line to Fairfield town line

• Post Road West and Post Road East

Fairfield: 5.43 miles (0 km); Westport town line to Bridgeport city line

• Post Road, Kings Highway Cutoff and Kings Highway East

Bridgeport: 4.73 miles (0 km); Fairfield town line to Stratford town line

• North Avenue and Boston Avenue

Stratford: 2.41 miles (0 km); Bridgeport city line to Milford city line

• Boston Avenue and Barnum Avenue

Milford: 6.26 miles (0 km); Stratford town line to Orange town line

• Bridgeport Avenue and Boston Post Road

Orange: 2.86 miles (0 km); Milford city line to West Haven city line

• Boston Post Road

West Haven: 2.07 miles (0 km); Orange town line to New Haven city line

• Boston Post Road

New Haven: 4.08 miles (0 km); West Haven city line to East Haven town line

• Orange Avenue, Columbus Avenue, Church Street South, Columbus Plaza, Water Street and Forbes Avenue

East Haven: 1.55 miles (0 km); New Haven city line to Branford town line

• Saltonstall Parkway

Branford: 6.96 miles (0 km); East Haven town line to North Branford town line

• West Main Street, North Main Street and East Main Street

North Branford: 0.06 miles (0 km); Branford town line to Guilford town line

• Boston Post Road

Guilford: 5.83 miles (0 km); North Branford town line to Madison town line

• Boston Post Road

Madison: 5.65 miles (0 km); Guilford town line to Clinton town line

• Boston Post Road

Clinton: 3.30 miles (0 km); Madison town line to Westbrook town line

• West Main Street and East Main Street

Westbrook: 3.91 miles (0 km); Clinton town line to Old Saybrook town line

• Boston Post Road

Old Saybrook: 4.99 miles (0 km); Westbrook town line to Old Lyme town line

• Boston Post Road and Interstate 95 (Raymond E. Baldwin Bridge)

Old Lyme: 5.78 miles (0 km); Old Saybrook town line to East Lyme town line

• Interstate 95, Neck Road, Halls Road and Boston Post Road

East Lyme: 4.83 miles (0 km); Old Lyme town line to Waterford town line

• Boston Post Road

Waterford: 4.78 miles (0 km); East Lyme town line to New London city line

• Boston Post Road

New London: 3.62 miles (0 km); Waterford town line to Groton town line

• Bank Street, [Bank Street, Jefferson Avenue] (Colman Street), Colman Street, [South Frontage Road] (North Frontage Road) and Interstate 95 (Gold Star Memorial Bridge)

Groton: 7.23 miles (0 km); New London city line to Stonington town line

• Interstate 95, [I-95 ramp] (Long Hill Road, Gold Star Highway), Long Hill Road, Poquonnock Road, Fort Hill Road, New London Road and West Main Street

Stonington: 8.27 miles (0 km); Groton town line to Rhode Island State line

• East Main Street, Broadway, Roosevelt Street, Williams Avenue, Stonington-Westerly Road, South Broad Street and West Broad Street

Rhode Island

Main article: U.S. Route 1 in Rhode Island

US 1 runs 56.8 miles (0 km) in the U.S. state of Rhode Island. It has a business/bypass split in Warwick where US 1 Business runs along Post Road and US 1 Bypass runs along Post Road Bypass. The business route is officially recognized by the Rhode Island Department of Transportation as US 1.

Route

Note: This section uses [] () to indicate a one-way pair. Streets appearing in [] are the northbound or eastbound side. Streets appearing in () are the southbound or westbound side. The reading order inside the brackets and parentheses is the same as outside.

US 1 takes the following route through the State (South to North):

• Westerly: 6.4 miles (0 km); Connecticut State line to Charlestown town line
• Broad Street, [Main Street, Union Street] (Broad Street), Broad Street, Granite Street, Franklin Street, Post Road and Shore Road
• Charlestown: 7.1 miles (0 km); Westerly city line to South Kingstown town line
• Post Road
• South Kingstown: 7.7 miles (0 km); Charlestown town line to Narragansett town line
• Commander Perry Memorial Highway
• Narragansett: 0.8 miles (0 km); South Kingstown town line to South Kingstown town line
• Commander Perry Memorial Highway
• South Kingstown: 4.6 miles (0 km); Narragansett town line to North Kingstown town line
• Commander Perry Memorial Highway and Tower Hill Road
• North Kingstown: 9.8 miles (0 km); South Kingstown line to East Greenwich town line
• Tower Hill Road and Post Road
• East Greenwich: 2.4 miles (0 km); North Kingstown town line to Warwick city line
• Post Road and Main Street
• Warwick: 7.5 miles (0 km); East Greenwich town line to Cranston city line
• Post Road, [Post Road, West Shore Road] (Greenwich Avenue, Veterans Memorial Drive), Post Road and Elmwood Avenue
• Cranston: 1.1 miles (0 km); Warwick city line to Providence city line
• Elmwood Avenue
• Providence: 6.3 miles (0 km); Cranston city line to Pawtucket city line
• Elmwood Avenue, Broad Street, [Broad Street, Franklin Street, Service Road #8] (Service Road #7, Broadway), Broadway, [Fountain Street] (Sabin Street), Francis Street, Gaspee Street, Smith Street and North Main Street
• Pawtucket: 3.1 miles (0 km); Providence city line to Massachusetts State line
• Pawtucket Avenue, George Street, [East Avenue] (Park Place West, Dexter Street, Goff Avenue, Summer Street, High Street), Main Street, [Main Street, Walcott Street, North-South Expressway] (Walcott Street, Broadway) and Broadway

Massachusetts

Main article: U.S. Route 1 in Massachusetts

US 1 enters the state from Rhode Island at Attleboro. It closely parallels Interstate 95 as it goes through the towns of North Attleboro, Plainville, Wrentham, Foxborough, Walpole, Sharon, Norwood (where a segment is known as the Norwood Automile due to the many car dealerships that line the road), and Westwood. US 1 then has a wrong-way concurrency with Interstate 95 up to the junction with Interstate 93 then travels along Interstate 93 from Canton through downtown Boston separating from the Interstate just after passing through the Central Artery tunnel. The route crosses the Tobin Bridge traveling over Chelsea and Revere as a freeway known as Boston's Northeast Expressway, then as a traditional six lane expressway (surface road without at-grade intersections or traffic lights) through Malden, Melrose, Saugus and Lynnfield. From Lynnfield, US 1 again closely parallels Interstate 95 going through the towns of Peabody, Danvers, Topsfield, Ipswich, Rowley, Newbury, Newburyport, and Salisbury, before it enters the state of New Hampshire.

Route 1A runs alongside Route 1 in four parts of the state.

New Hampshire

Main article: U.S. Route 1 in New Hampshire

Route

Note: This section uses [] () to indicate a one-way pair. Streets appearing in [] are the northbound or eastbound side. Streets appearing in () are the southbound or westbound side. The reading order inside the brackets and parentheses is the same as outside.

US 1 takes the following route through the state (South to North):

• Seabrook: 2.5 miles (0 km); Massachusetts state line (Salisbury) to Hampton Falls town line
• Lafayette Road, [Lafayette Road] (Smith Lane, Main Street), and Lafayette Road
• Hampton Falls: 1.5 miles (0 km); Seabrook town line to Hampton town line
• Lafayette Road
• Hampton: 3.0 miles (0 km); Hampton Falls town line to North Hampton town line
• Lafayette Road
• North Hampton: 3.4 miles (0 km); Hampton town line to Rye town line
• Lafayette Road
• Rye: 1.2 miles (0 km); North Hampton town line to Portsmouth city line
• Portsmouth: X.X miles; Rye town line to Maine state line (Kittery) at Memorial Bridge
• Lafayette Road, Middle Street, [State Street] (Middle Street, Congress Street, Market Square, Daniel Street), and State Street

Maine

Main article: U.S. Route 1 in Maine

In Maine US Route 1 skirts the Maine coast line, then heads north, hugging the border with New Brunswick. A total of 529 miles (851 km) lies in Maine, with spurs in York, Portland, Rockland, Bangor, Milbridge, Machias, and Aroostook County.

Baxter Boulevard is a part of U.S. Route 1 in Portland, Maine. Running around the west side of Back Cove, the roadway was named after James P. Baxter, a former mayor. It served as the means to head north from downtown Portland before Tukey's Bridge, now on I-295, was built.

History

The direct predecessor to US 1 was the Atlantic Highway, an auto trail established in 1911 as the Quebec City-Miami International Highway. In 1915 it was renamed the Atlantic Highway,^[9] and the northern terminus was changed to Calais, Maine.^[10] Due to the overlapping of auto trail designations, portions of the route had other names that remain in common use, such as the Boston Post Road between Boston and New York, the Lincoln Highway between New York and Philadelphia, and the Dixie Highway in and south of eastern Georgia. North of Augusta, Georgia, the highway generally followed the fall line, rather than a more easterly route through the swamps of the Atlantic Coastal Plain.^[11]

When the New England road marking system was established in 1922, the Atlantic Highway within New England was signed as Route 1, with a Route 24 continuing north to Madawaska;^[12] New York extended the number to New York City in 1924 with its own Route 1.^[13] Other states adopted their own systems of numbering, and by 1926 all states but Maryland had signed the Atlantic Highway as various routes, usually changing numbers at the state line. In 1925, the Joint Board on Interstate Highways created a preliminary list of interstate routes to be marked by the states,^[14] including Route 1 along the Atlantic. This highway began at Fort Kent, Maine and followed the existing Route 24 to Houlton and Route 15 to Bangor, beyond which it generally followed the Atlantic Highway to Miami.^[15] In all states but Georgia that had numbered their state highways, Route 1 followed only one or two numbers across the state.^[16] The only significant deviation from the Atlantic Highway was between Augusta, Georgia and Jacksonville, Florida, where Route 1 was assigned to a more inland route, rather than following the Atlantic Highway via Savannah.^[17]

One of the many changes made to the system before the final numbering was adopted in 1926 involved US 1 in Maine. The 1925 plan had assigned Route 1 to the shorter inland route (Route 15) between Houlton and Bangor, while Route 2 followed the longer coastal route via Calais. In the system as adopted in 1926, US 2 instead took the inland route, while US 1 followed the coast, absorbing all of the former Routes 24 and 1 in New England.^[18][19] Many local and regional relocations, often onto parallel superhighways, were made in the early days of US 1; this included the four-lane divided Route 25 in New Jersey, completed in 1932 with the opening of the Pulaski Skyway,^[20] and a bypass of Bangor involving the Waldo-Hancock Bridge, opened in 1931.^[21] The Overseas Highway from Miami to Key West was completed in 1938, and soon became a southern extension of US 1.^[22]

With the construction of the Interstate Highway System in and after the 1950s, much of US 1 from Houlton to Miami was bypassed by Interstate 95. Between Houlton and Brunswick, Maine, I-95 took a shorter inland route, much of it paralleling US 2 on the alignment proposed for US 1 in 1925. Between Philadelphia and Baltimore, I-95 leaves US 1 to pass through Wilmington. Most notably, I-95 and US 1 follow different corridors between Petersburg, Virginia and Jacksonville, Florida; while US 1 followed the fall line west of the coastal plain, I-95 takes a more direct route through the plain and its swamps. Although some of this part of US 1 was followed by other Interstates - I-85 between Petersburg and Henderson, North Carolina, and I-20 between Camden, South Carolina and Augusta, Georgia - the rest remains an independent route that has been four-laned in many places. By the late 1970s, most of I-95 had been completed, replacing US 1 as the main corridor of the east coast and relegating most of it to local road status.^[23]

Miscellanea

Cultural references

In 1938, modernist poet Muriel Rukeyser published a collection titled U.S. 1, containing "The Book of the Dead," a documentary poem sequence about the Hawk's Nest incident, an industrial disaster in which hundreds of miners working out of Gauley Bridge, West Virginia died of silicosis due to company negligence. The poem and book took inspiration from the Federal Writers' Project American Guide series, and the U.S. One: Maine to Florida volume (also published in 1938) in particular.

In 1953, Andy Griffith recorded a comedy monologue, "Number One Street" about the misadventures of a rural family traveling to Florida on the highway. A sample: "The sign said 'Free Picnic Tables' so we took us one."

In 1954, famous photographer Berenice Abbott, traveled the entire length of U.S. Route 1 and took many pictures of the scenery and towns along the road.

See also

• Bannered routes of U.S. Route 1

Related U.S. Routes

	[ edit] U.S. Routes related to US 1
US 201 - US 301 - US 401 - US 501 - US 601 - US 701

Related state highways

• Florida State Road A1A
• New York State Route 1A

References

External links

• End of U.S. Highway 1
• An enlarged view of road jurisdiction in Trenton, New Jersey at the confluence of US 1, US 206, NJ 29, NJ 33 and NJ 129
• Penns Neck Bypass Study

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