New England Interstate Route 9

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Route 9
Length:	447.58 mi (720.31 km) Vermont: 47.15 mi (75.88 km) New Hampshire: 110.00 mi (177.03 km) Maine: 290.43 mi (467.40 km)
Formed:	1922
West end:	NY 7 in Hoosick, NY
Major junctions:	I-91 in Brattleboro, VT I-89 in Hopkinton, NH I-93 in Concord, NH Route 16 in Dover, NH I-95 in Wells, ME I-395 in Bangor, ME
East end:	NB 1 in St. Stephen, NB

Route 9 is a multi-state state highway in the New England region of the United States, running across the southern parts of New Hampshire, Vermont and Maine. Its number was assigned in 1922, when it was designated one of the New England Interstate Routes, also known as the Bennington-Wells Route. Much of the route remains intact in Vermont and New Hampshire. In Maine, however, Route 9 has since been extended eastward by about 270 miles (435 km) from its original terminus in Wells through Bangor to the Canadian border in Calais.

1 History
2 Route description
3 See also
4 References

[edit] History

Route 9 originally extended 167 miles across the southern part of Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine, from the New York-Vermont border in Bennington, via Brattleboro and Keene, to Wells. When New York first signed its state highways in 1924, the westward continuation of the route towards Troy was also designated as New York State Route 9. In 1927, however, because of the designation of U.S. Route 9, New York renumbered its former Route 9 as Route 7. By the beginning of 1934, Maine extended its portion of Route 9 by about 270 miles to the Canadian border in Calais, creating an alternate route to U.S. Route 1.^[1]

[edit] Route description

[edit] Vermont

Route 9 begins at the New York state line in Bennington, Vermont, where it continues west as Route 7. It crosses the Connecticut River from Brattleboro, Vermont into Chesterfield, New Hampshire. Route 9 in Vermont is also known as the Molly Stark Byway.^[2]

County	Location	Mile	Roads intersected	Notes
Bennington	Bennington	0.0	NY 7	New York State Line.
	Bennington	4.4	US 7
	Searsburg	18.3	VT 8	Northern terminus of VT 8.
Windham	Wilmington	25.2	VT 100
	Wilmington	26.3	VT 100
	Brattleboro	43.5	I-91	Exit 2 (I-91).
		44.6	US 5 south	Southern terminus of concurrency.
		44.8	VT 30
		46.9	US 5 north	Northern terminus of concurrency. Connection to I-91 Exit 3.
		47.2	NH 9	New Hampshire State Line

[edit] New Hampshire

In New Hampshire, Route 9 runs through Keene, Concord and Dover. It runs concurrent with U.S. Route 202 for much of its path across the state. Route 9 crosses the Salmon Falls River from Somersworth, New Hampshire into Berwick, Maine.

Route 9A is an alternate route in Chesterfield.

Map of Route 9 in New Hampshire

[edit] Maine

Main article: Maine State Route 9

In Maine, Route 9 runs in a rather circuitous route from Berwick to Calais, where it ends at the Canadian border - the St. Croix River - and becomes Route 1 in the province of New Brunswick.