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unusual facts about U.S. Route 40


Pat McDonough

He is a member of the Route 40 Business Civic Association and the Essex-Middle River-White Marsh Chamber of Commerce.


Aiken's Tavern Historic District

The district is located just west of the intersection of U.S. Route 40 and Delaware Route 896.

Big Creek Township, Russell County, Kansas

Interstate 70 and U.S. Route 40 run concurrently east-west through Big Creek Township, interchanging with 176th Street, a paved north-south county road, one mile south of Gorham.

Center Township, Russell County, Kansas

Interstate 70 and U.S. Route 40 run concurrently east-west through Center Township, interchanging with Bunker Hill-Luray Road, a paved north-south county road, less than a mile south of Bunker Hill.

Clear Spring, Maryland

The town is situated at the eastern base of Fairview Mountain, along U.S. Route 40 and Interstate 70.

Grant Township, Russell County, Kansas

Interstate 70 and U.S. Route 40 run concurrently east-west through the far northern part of the township.

Indiana State Road 267

A $17.5 million Major Moves reconstruction project began in May 2006 on SR 267 between I-70 and US 40 in Plainfield.

National Trail Conference

Founded in 1935, the National Trail Conference was named after the National Road, which runs through the heart of the conference in Effingham and Fayette Counties and coincides with U.S. Route 40.

North Bethlehem Township, Washington County, Pennsylvania

The main route through the township and village is U.S. Route 40, also known as the National Road or "National Pike".

Plymouth Township, Russell County, Kansas

Interstate 70 and U.S. Route 40 run concurrently east-west through the central part of the township.

Richland, New Jersey

Bacardi had offered to give the township $5,000 for recreation projects in exchange for commemorating the new name with a sign on U.S. Route 40 for those weeks.

Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians

In the era when animal power dominated transportation there was no safe way to cross east-west in the middle of the range; crossing was only possible nearer its extremes except for a few rough passages opened mid-range during the colonial era such as Braddock's Road and Forbes Road, later improved into America's first National Roads (respectively Cumberland Road, Lincoln Highway or designated U.S. 40 and U.S. 30 in later years).

Teutopolis, Illinois

Teutopolis, City of the Teutons, or Germans, was established in 1839 and is located on the Cumberland Trail known as the Old National Road and now U.S. Route 40.


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