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^ 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...

^ date reposted to this blog Mar. 16, 2023: originally posted to my old blog US 231 was included in the inaugural routes of Nov. 1926, but at the time it ran only from Montgomery AL to Marianna FL. US 241 was not among the original routes*, but neither was it far behind: it was commissioned in Mar. 1930. This was mostly done to appease certain Alabama interests who wanted a US route designation to be applied to their State Highway 1.  ​ *For the sake of clarity, there actually was a US 241 that was commissioned in 1926 to run between Nashville TN and Hopkinsville KY. However, it was never signposted as such in Tennessee, and possibly not in Kentucky either. AASHO officially canceled the US 241[i] designation in Jun. 1929, and its number was recycled less than a year later and applied to the route discussed on this page. To avoid confusion, this route is sometimes differentiated as US 241[ii]. A commercial state highway map from 1928 (by General Drafting) indicated that Alabam...