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| The Number: | Hasn't been assigned yet. It's probably reserved for a future
Interstate 140, wherever it might go. Greensboro? Hickory? Wade Avenue?
It's anybody's guess.
That said, at least one old map uses I-140 as an early designation for Asheville's I-240. Go here to find out more. |
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| N.C. 141 8 miles | ||||
| The Road: | Starts at U.S. 64 in Cherokee County. Ends at U.S. 19/129, still in Cherokee. | |||
| History: |  There
have been two different N.C. 141s. Now your first guess would be that
the original 141 spurred from N.C. 14, right? Wrong! 14 did have a spur
route, but it was numbered 144, not 141.
The first 141 ran from U.S. 74/76 in Columbus County north to N.C. 53 in Bladen County. It was designated around 1955, over a previously unnumbered road. The choice of number is intriguing; several lower numbers were available at the time. See map at right (General Drafting '67). The first 141 was renumbered as an extension of N.C. 11 around 1975. For a few years 141 wasn't used for anything. Today's 141 got its number in the mid-1980s. |
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| N.C. 142 9 miles | |||
| The Road: | Starts at N.C. 111 in Edgecombe County. Ends at N.C. 903/125 in Martin County. | ||
| History: | N.C. 142 first appeared in 1975. Its pavement was previously
part of N.C. 42, and originally
it ran only as far west as N.C. 11. Unlike with the original 141, the numbering
here seems logical: 142 from 42.
In 1980, 142 was extended westward, obtaining its current routing. |
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| N.C. 143 | ||||
| The Road: | N.C. 143, part of which is the Cherohala Skyway, now has its own page. | |||
| N.C. 144 dead | |||
| Formerly: | Ran over part of today's N.C. 62 through Guilford and Alamance
counties, and today's N.C. 49 from Alamance
County north to the Virginia line. This made it a spur from the original
N.C. 14. Strangely, 144 was 14's only spur route; 141, 142 and 143 were
never used.
At least part of 144, from the Orange/Caswell line north to Roxboro, was designated by 1924. By 1929 the route was extended west to N.C. 62 in Alamance. By 1932 it was extended north into Virginia. Finally, around 1936, 144 was sent southwest through Burlington and into Guilford County, ending at what's now N.C. 61's southern terminus. In every case, 144 was extended over previously unnumbered roads. See the map below; it's a 1937 RMcN. N.C. 144 shows up on maps through 1939, but was replaced by 62
and 49 by 1940. This was probably done so that N.C. 49 could connect to
older Virginia 49. By 1941, 144's parent route (N.C. 14) was renumbered
(to N.C. 86) as well.
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