New England Interstate Route 24

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New England Interstate Route 24 or NE-24 was a New England Interstate Highway in Maine. The original 1922 plan had NE-24 running for 140 miles from Brunswick, Maine to Moosehead Lake in Greenville, Maine. The modern designations of the original route are:

State Route 24 from Brunswick to Gardiner (paralleling I-295)
U.S. Route 201 from Gardiner to Waterville
State Route 100 from Waterville to Newport
State Route 7 from Newport to Dexter
State Route 23 from Dexter to Sangerville
State Route 6 from Sangerville to Greenville

By 1925, Maine had transferred the Route 24 designation to a completely new alignment on the eastern edge of the state. The new route ran from Calais, Maine to Madawaska, Maine, at a border crossing with Edmunston, New Brunswick. Today, NE-24 is part of the alignment of U.S. Route 1 in Maine.