Virginia State Route 34

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For former State Routes numbered 34, see State Route 34 (Virginia 1923-1933) and State Route 34 (Virginia 1933-1940).

State Route 34

Hodges Street

Length:

0.54 mi^[1] (0.87 km)

Formed:

1942 (current route in 1952)

West end:

SR 129 in South Boston

East end:

US 360 in South Boston

Virginia Routes
< SR 33		SR 35 >
Primary - Secondary - History

State Route 34 is a short primary state highway in the U.S. state of Virginia, lying entirely within the town of South Boston. It runs along the full length of Hodges Street from Main Street (State Route 129) east to U.S. Route 360.

Until 1948, State Route 304, which originally ran northeast from South Boston to near Scottsburg along present U.S. Route 360, did not enter the town of South Boston. It was extended at that time from the east corporate limits west along Hodges Street (now SR 34) to State Route 129 (Main Street).^[2] An eastern bypass of South Boston (now US 360 and State Route 304Y), heading south and west from SR 304 to U.S. Route 501, was approved in 1942.^[3] A spur (now also US 360) from its midpoint south over the Dan River to U.S. Route 58 was later added, and the north-south piece was assigned the SR 34 designation by 1948,^[4] with State Route 34Y on the east-west (Seymour Drive) portion. However, when finished in 1952, this bypass instead became a relocation of SR 304, and SR 34Y became SR 304Y, while the old SR 304 on Hodges Street became SR 34.^[5]