The following is a list of former primary state highways in Virginia. The highways here no longer exist and have been split as part of a renumbering, because they are now several secondary routes of roughly equal importance, or because they are now local town or city streets. Historic routes that are not given here are listed at List of primary state highways in Virginia.
| State Route 14 | |
|---|---|
| Location: | Danville–Crows |
| Existed: | 1918–1933 |
State Route 14 was a primary state highway in the U.S. state of Virginia. It was formed as part of the initial system in 1918, and always ran from the North Carolina state line through Danville, Lynchburg, and Lexington to West Virginia. In 1926, this was designated as U.S. Route 170 from North Carolina to Lynchburg and U.S. Route 60 from Lynchburg to West Virginia (except between Glasgow and Lexington, where US 60 used State Route 141 and State Route 33 via Natural Bridge). In the 1933 renumbering, the piece from Lynchburg to Lexington, including the Glasgow-Lexington section, became U.S. Route 501, as US 60 was rerouted to the north east of Lexington; all of SR 14 was removed in the 1933 renumbering.
| State Route 27 | |
|---|---|
| Location: | Powhatan–Sperryville |
| Existed: | 1940–1953 |
State Route 27 was a primary state highway in the U.S. state of Virginia. At its peak, it ran from near Powhatan to Sperryville via Columbia, Louisa, Orange, and Madison. The route was never continuous, with gaps filled by secondary routes. The route was at first known as State Route 16 from 1918 to 1940; the State Route 16 designation was needed in the 1940 renumbering to match other states, and so the road was SR 27 from 1940 to the final decommissioning in 1953.
The former SR 27 now carries the following designations:
In the initial 1918 state highway system, State Route 16 ran from State Route 2 (now U.S. Route 15) at Madison Mills to State Route 3 (now U.S. Route 11) at New Market via Madison and Luray, crossing the Blue Ridge Mountains at Fishers Gap.[1] North of Madison, this was the path of the Blue Ridge Turnpike. In 1921, the State Highway Commission recommended that the legislature relocate SR 16 to run via Sperryville and Thornton Gap rather than Stanley to "eliminate a very difficult and expensive crossing of the Blue Ridge" and provide "a direct connection with the Lee Highway at Sperryville".[2] By 1923, SR 16 was truncated to Sperryville; the piece from Sperryville west to New Market became an extension of State Route 21.[3]
| State Route 33 | |
|---|---|
| Location: | Ridgeway–Rest |
| Existed: | 1923–1933 |
State Route 33 was a primary state highway in the U.S. state of Virginia. It was first formed as part of the initial system in 1918; it was State Route 3 until 1923. SR 33 existed until 1933, when it was deemed redundant to the U.S. Routes that used it - U.S. Route 311 (now U.S. Route 220) from North Carolina to Roanoke, and U.S. Route 11 from Roanoke to West Virginia. The number was immediately reused for another route in southeastern Virginia, and in the late 1930s the current State Route 33, an extension of U.S. Route 33, was formed.
From Staunton to Winchester, SR 33 was the Valley Turnpike, taken over by the state in 1918. North of Winchester towards Martinsburg, West Virginia, SR 33 used the Winchester and Martinsburg Turnpike.[4] Tolls were removed in 1919 when the turnpike company gave the road to the state.[5]
| State Route 76 | |
|---|---|
| Location: | Bristol |
| Existed: | 1933–1970 |
State Route 76 was a primary state highway in Washington County, Virginia, United States and the independent city of Bristol. It ran northeast from downtown Bristol on King Mill Pike and Old Airport Road to a junction with U.S. Route 11/U.S. Route 19 south of Wallace. The former SR 76 now lies entirely within the Bristol city limits and is locally maintained.[6]
SR 76 was added to the state highway system in 1928 and 1934 (for 3.24 mi/5.21 km and the remaining 0.76 mi/1.22 km respectively); it was numbered State Route 109 before 1933.[7][8] The piece inside Bristol was added as a locally-maintained extension in 1932, beginning at State Street and Front Street (now Randall Street) and running along Front Street, Mary Street, Goodson Street, Danville Avenue, Fairview Street, and Massachusetts Avenue to the city line east of Montpelier Avenue.[9][10]
Goodson Street between State Street and Mary Street was reconstructed in the late 1930s,[11] and, once that project was completed, SR 76 was rerouted to use it, beginning at State and Goodson. (State was U.S. Route 421 there, turning south at that intersection onto Pennsylvania Avenue.) The former alignment on Front Street was removed from the state highway system, but the Mary Street piece, and its extension west to Oakview Avenue (U.S. Route 11/U.S. Route 19/U.S. Route 58, now State Route 113), became State Route 76Y. (SR 76 may have continued west on State Street to downtown; it did so by 1952.[12])
In 1966, the piece of SR 76 inside Bristol was removed from the state highway system, as part of the reconfiguration brought about by Euclid Avenue. Former SR 76 on Goodson Street south of Mary Street, as well as all of SR 76Y (Mary Street from Goodson Street west to Oakview Avenue), became a part of a realigned U.S. Route 421, while the rest of SR 76 to the city limits (near East Valley Drive) was removed entirely.[13] The remaining three miles (5 km) of SR 76 were downgraded to secondary State Route 895 in 1970 at the request of Washington County;[14] SR 895 itself was later swallowed up by the expanding city limits of Bristol.
| State Route 88 | |
|---|---|
| Location: | Emporia–Branchville |
| Existed: | 1940–1948 |
State Route 88 was a primary state highway in the U.S. state of Virginia. The number was assigned in the 1940 renumbering to replace part of State Route 32, and SR 88 was transferred to the secondary system in 1943 and 1948. SR 88 ran from Branchville via Emporia to Purdy along current State Route 730 and part of State Route 619; SR 32 had continued east from Branchville to Boykins along State Route 195 and east from Purdy past Jarratt along State Route 608, State Route 139, and State Route 631.
| State Route 110 | |
|---|---|
| Location: | Alexandria |
| Length: | 0.29 mi[15] (0.47 km) |
| Existed: | 1947–1956 |
State Route 110 was a short primary state highway in Alexandria, Virginia, United States, planned to connect U.S. Route 1 with a bridge across the Potomac River to the District of Columbia.
The roadway was to begin at Henry Street (US 1, now southbound only) just south of First Street, head east-northeast to the intersection of Washington Street (now State Route 400) and Second Street, and then run east on Second Street to the river for a total length of 0.29 miles (0.47 km).[15] The 0.16-mile (0.26 km) part on Second Street was added as a state highway connection, to be maintained by the City of Alexandria with state funding.[16] The proposed bridge site was just south of the Shepherd's Landing Bridge, a temporary rail bridge built at Third Street during World War II in case of attack on the Long Bridge to the north.[17] That rail bridge was demolished in early 1947.[18] In 1956, SR 110 was removed from the state highway system, as the proposed bridge had moved to the south (to the location of the present Woodrow Wilson Bridge).[16]
| State Route 174 | |
|---|---|
| Location: | Lee Hall |
| Existed: | 1933–1966 |
State Route 174 was a primary state highway in the Virginia Peninsula area of the U.S. state of Virginia. It was a short cutoff between U.S. Route 60 and State Route 238 bypassing Lee Hall. The road is now cut by Interstate 64 and Naval Weapons Station Yorktown.