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N.C. 115 to 119
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| N.C. 115 68 miles | |||
| The Road: | Starts at U.S. 21 on the north side of Charlotte, Mecklenburg County. Ends at N.C. 18 in North Wilkesboro, Wilkes County. | ||
| Towns and Attractions: | Mecklenburg Co.: Charlotte; Huntersville;
Cornelius; Davidson. Through all of Mecklenburg, 115 is Old Statesville
Road.
Iredell Co.: Mooresville (Main Street, Cherry Street); Statesville (Shelton Avenue, Center Street). 115 is co-signed with U.S. 21 between Mooresville and Statesville and crosses I-77 at Exit 42. Wilkes Co.: Interchange with the U.S. 421 freeway; co-signed with Business 421 into North Wilkesboro. |
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| History: | N.C. 115 from Statesville north to U.S. 421 dates
back to at least 1930, and was extended the few miles to North Wilkesboro
by the mid-1940s.
Today's 115 south of Statesville was the original U.S. 21 (and before that, N.C. 26). In the early 1950s (between 1952 and 1955), the current 21 between Mooresville and Charlotte was built, and 115 was extended southward along the old route. Normally such a route would be redesignated as 21A or Business 21. However, bypassed U.S. routes have been renumbered as N.C. routes in other places, such as with N.C. 54, 97 and 155. |
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| N.C. 116 4 miles | ||||
| The Road: | Starts at U.S. 23/441 in Jackson County; ends at N.C. 107, still in Jackson. |  |
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| History: | Unchanged since at least 1930, when it ran between
N.C. 285 and N.C. 106. If the map at right looks
familiar, it's because it's the same 1930 official state map as in the
N.C. 112 entry.
Faithfully follows the 110-119 Mountain Road Requirement mentioned under N.C. 113. |
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| 117 see U.S. 117 |
| N.C. 117 dead | |||
| Formerly: | Ran from Newton Grove (Sampson County) to U.S. 70 near New
Bern (Craven County). Born in 1931 or 1932; was done in by the great renumbering
of 1934. The Gousha map below is from 1932, and shows 117 in its entirety
(you're welcome). U.S. 17-1 became
U.S. 117 a year later, so for a short time one 117 crossed the other. N.C.
117 was renumbered as an extension of N.C. 55.
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| N.C. 118 20 miles | |||
| The Road: | Starts at N.C. 11 in Lenoir County.
Ends at N.C. 43 near Vanceboro, Craven County. |
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| History: | N.C. 118 was born in 1932; the N.C. 117 map above also shows
118 to the east of Kinston. This original 118 crossed the Neuse River
on modern-day Maple Cypress Road.
118 was rerouted west to Grifton (north of the area of the N.C. 117 map, if you're still looking at it) within a year of 1939. The western terminus was in the middle of Grifton, at the original N.C. 11 (Highland Boulevard). When the four-lane 11 was finished to the west of town in the early 1970s, 118 was extended westward to end at it. |
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| N.C. 119 44 miles | |||
| The Road: | Starts at N.C. 54 in Alamance County.
Crosses into Virginia from Caswell County and becomes Virginia 119. |
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| Towns and Attractions: | Alamance Co.: Mebane (5th Street, Center Street, 1st Street.
The town is pronounced "Mebbin", not "Mee-bayne".)
Caswell Co.: Runs along western side of Hyco Lake. |
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| History: |  There
have been two different N.C. 119s.
The first 119 was the original designation for the northernmost stretch of today's N.C. 9, from U.S. 70 north to Montreat. This designation lasted from 1932 (119 isn't on the 1930 official map) until 9 superseded it in 1937. As for today's 119, the road between N.C. 54 and what we now call N.C. 49 was first numbered as N.C. 103 in the 1920s. In 1940 or '41, this stretch of road (between 54 and 49 only) was renumbered as 119. Around 1955, 119 was extended north to N.C. 86 in Caswell County. However, its original routing in northern Alamance County was a bit different from today's: 119 was routed along westbound 49, northbound N.C. 62 and today's Pleasant Union Road before continuing to the north. See the 1956 RMcN map at right. N.C. 119 received its own pavement in northern Alamance (without being co-signed over other routes) and was extended all the way to Virginia by 1958. It remains unchanged since then. |
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