User:NE2/Norfolk, Virginia area changes

This page lists changes in the state routes in the Norfolk, Virginia area, using the CTB archives as a reference. I'm also working on a map with other information, so ask me if you're working on something related - I may have what you need.

Here are some maps that might help with old configurations and street names:
 * 1918 (west) and 1918 (east)
 * 1919
 * 1920

07-1932-02
This is when the state highway routes in the cities were first defined under the law (Chapter 415, Acts of 1932) giving the cities money to maintain them.

Portsmouth (total 5.60? mi):

South Norfolk had only "Bainbridge Boulevard, Poindexter Street to Liberty Street, 2.002?? miles" [this was Route ?] [this is very unclear - it may have actually used Wilson from Poindexter to the city line?]

08-1932-03
Mileage in the city of Norfolk designated as state highway routes increased from 22.9 mi to 29.4 mi by including the following: [there doesn't seem to be any record of the previous network! but it's likely that Granby Street was added]

Mileage in the city of Portsmouth increased by 2.06?? miles, for a total of 7.66? miles, by adding "leading from High Street to the Navy Yard and thence over Gosport Road [Portsmouth Boulevard] to Chestnut Street; thence over Chestnut Street to Shell Road, to Elm Avenue" [this was Route ?] [this may have used Court Street and 4th Street to the navy yard ]

South Norfolk increased by 0.6 mi to 2.8? mi by adding "from the N&W Railroad tracks down Liberty Street to Atlantic Avenue, to the city limits" [this was Route ?]

12-1934-01
Page 5 calls the Campostella Bridge Route 644. But it's in the above mileage!

04-1951-01
Page 10 lists several projects:
 * "Liberty and State Streets-From Int. S. Main Street-Elm Place (Route 337-A)"
 * "City Hall Avenue and Holt Street-From Int.Bank Street-Lovett (Route 58-A)"

03-1953-01
Page 8: relocation of Bank Street

10-1954-02
Page 166 says that US 60 used the Old Point Ferry and Route 168 used the Newport News Ferry. Page 169 says that Tidewater Drive was to end at City Hall Avenue.

11-1957-02
Page 4: 168/170 swap

Page 5: Norfolk-Portsmouth Ferry closed July 1, 1955?, Tidewater Drive (Route 460-A) opened July 1, 1956?

04-1960-01
Page 35: Portsmouth annexed some land.