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^ date reposted to this blog Apr. 04, 2025: originally posted to my old blog The main purpose of this article is to discuss the history of the US routes in the Texoma area. It is not my intention to review every state highway and farm-to-market route. Nevertheless, I do mention several of them in this article, but only those that somehow relate to the history of the US routes. When the US routes were commissioned in late 1926, US 75 was initially the only designation that served the Sherman-Denison area (at the time US 69 went only as far south as Kansas City, and US 82 did not yet exist). That was the condition illustrated on both of the following maps, from the early- and mid-1930s: c. 1931, Clason c. 1934, Rand McNally The current alignment of US 75 (which bypasses Denison to the north and west) was not built until about 1994. Originally, heading south from Oklahoma, US 75 followed what is now US 69 into Denison, but instead of curving onto Austin Avenue, US 75 initially contin...

^ date reposted to this blog May 25, 2023: originally posted to my old blog Jun. 19, 2023: last updated Do you ever think about what was here, before you were here? Before we all were here, with all of our roads, neighborhoods, houses, parks, buildings? We could go way back, millions of years, when the area that would later be known as "Denver" was still submerged beneath the western edge of a vast interior sea . ​Or we could go back not quite as far, maybe just 200 or 300 years, to a time when the only humans living in this area were those who belonged to the local Native American tribes. As they went in search of game, or moved their camps from one place to another, they formed trails, particularly along the streams in the area. ​Settlers of European descent did not begin to arrive here in earnest until the 1850s, less than 200 years ago. The old Native American trail along the east bank of Cherry Creek started to be used by new groups of people, who referred to it as...

^ date reposted to this blog May 11, 2023: originally posted to my old blog May 18, 2023: last updated Inspired by Kurumi in an AARoads Forum post , I decided to compile a list of US routes that have been completely moved (or at least mostly moved) from their original alignments. In other words, these routes bear no resemblance (or very little resemblance) to the route that originally carried the same number. A subset of these shape-shifting routes could be considered "Grandfather's Axe highways". Grandfather's Axe highways That term refers to a philosophical conundrum which posits the question, "If grandfather replaced the head of his axe, and later he replaced the axe handle, is it still the same axe?" One could ask a similar question about some US routes. Imagine a highway that started out along certain corridor, but then the "head" of the route was moved, and later the "tail" of the route was moved, such that the highway no lo...