U.S. Route 1 in North Carolina

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U.S. Route 1
Length: 174 mi[1] (280 km)
Formed: 1926
South end: US 1 near Rockingham
Major
junctions:
I-74 in Rockingham
US 220 in Rockingham
US 74 in Rockingham
US 15/501 in Aberdeen and Sanford
US 421 in Sanford
US 64 in Apex
I-40/I-440 in Raleigh
US 70/US 401 in Raleigh
North end: US 1
North Carolina highways
< NC 905 NC 2 >
United States Numbered Highways
List - Bannered - Divided - Replaced

In the U.S. state of North Carolina, U.S. Route 1 is a major north-south state highway west of Interstate 95, passing along the fall line through Laurinburg, Southern Pines, Sanford, Raleigh, and Henderson. North of Henderson, US 1 is paralleled by Interstate 85, but the rest of the route is an independent corridor, upgraded to a divided highway or freeway in most areas.[2]

[edit] Route description

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 US 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. US 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.

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[edit] History

The general route of US 1 in North Carolina was first part of the Capital Highway, an auto trail organized in 1909 to encourage counties along the route to improve the road between Washington and Atlanta.[3] It differed from US 1 north of Norlina, where it ran via Emporia and Roanoke Rapids, and between Southern Pines and Rockingham, where a route via Pinehurst - where the association's president lived - was followed.[4] The Quebec-Miami International Highway, organized in 1911 and renamed the Atlantic Highway in 1915,[5] also followed this corridor, overlapping many parts of the Capital Highway.[6] It initially followed even less of US 1 than the Capital Highway, only taking the same route between Raleigh and Cameron and south of Rockingham,[7] but was modified to match the Capital Highway by 1920,[8] and by 1924 it completely agreed with US 1 in North Carolina.[9] The state assigned the Highway 50 designation to the road by 1922.[citation needed]

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[edit] References

  1. ^ American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials, United States Numbered Highways, 1989 Edition
  2. ^ North Carolina Department of Transportation, State Travel Map, 2007
  3. ^ The Washington Post, Push Capital Highway, September 1, 1909
  4. ^ American Association for Highway Improvement, The Official Good Roads Year Book of the United States, 1912, p. 342
  5. ^ William Kaszynski, The American Highway: The History and Culture of Roads in the United States, 2000, p. 38
  6. ^ American Highway Association, Good Roads Year Book, 1917, p. 491
  7. ^ American Automobile Association, General Map of Transcontinental Trails with Principal Connections, 1918
  8. ^ Rand McNally & Co., New Official Railroad Map of the United States and Southern Canada, 1920
  9. ^ Automobile Club of America and National Highways Association, United States Touring Map, 1924


U.S. Route 1
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