AARoads:United States/Texas/1920s numbers
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25 highways were numbered in 1917: (Commerce Journal, Highway Commission Adopts 25 Highways, July 6, 1917)
The system in its final (?) approved form consisted of 26 routes with some differences: [1]
- State Highway 1, Texarkana, Dallas, Fort Worth, and El Paso Highway, beginning at Texarkana via Mt. Pleasant, Mt. Vernon, Sulphur Springs, Greenville, Rockwall, Dallas, Ft. Worth, Mineral Wells, Abilene, Sweetwater, Colorado, Big Springs, Midland, Pecos, Sierra Blanca and El Paso. Southern route of the Texarkana-Dallas Highway was designated as follows: Texarkana via Atlanta, Linden, Daingerfield, Pittsburg, Winnsboro, Sulphur Springs. Two routes of the Fort Worth-El Paso Highway from Palo Pinto to Abilene were designated as the northern route through Caddo, Breckenridge, Albany and Abilene; southern route via Strawn, Ranger, Eastland, Cisco, Putnam, Baird and Clyde, meeting at Abilene.
- State Highway 2, Meridian Road or Highway, from Burkburnett through Wichita Falls, Fort Worth, Meridian, Waco, Temple, Taylor, Austin, San Antonio to Laredo, with a branch off from Waco to Marlin, Calvert, College Station, Navasota, Hempstead, Houston and Galveston.
- State Highway 3, Southern National Highway, from a point in Orange on the Sabine river through Orange, Beaumont, Houston and San Antonio to Del Rio (the original highway entered Texas at the foot of Green Avenue in Orange after crossing the Sabine River on the Orange Memorial Bridge which was demolished in the 1950s with the advent of "Super 90" which would become Interstate 10 when the highway was routed northward.
- State Highway 4, Del Rio-Canadian Highway, from Del Rio through San Angelo, Sweetwater, Childress, Canadian and Ochiltree to state line.
- State Highway 5, North Texas Highway, from Texarkana to Paris, Sherman, Gainesville, Wichita Falls, Childress, Amarillo and Texline.
- State Highway 6, King of Trails, from a point six miles north of Denison on the Red River through Denison and Dallas to Waco.
- State Highway 7, Central Texas Highway, from a point on the Sabine River directly east of Newton, through Newton, Crockett and Waco to San Angelo.
- State Highway 8, East Texas Highway, from a point on the Red River north of New Boston, through New Boston, Linden, Jefferson, Marshall, Carthage, San Augustine, Jasper and Beaumont to Port Arthur.
- State Highway 9, Puget Sound to the Gulf Highway, from Corpus Christi through San Antonio, Fredericksburg, Brady, San Angelo, Big Springs and Lubbock to Amarillo.
- State Highway 10, Fort Worth, Brady and Fort Stockton Highway, from Fort Worth through Comanche, Brady, Sonora, Fort Stockton and Alpine to Sierra Blanca.
- State Highway 11, Jefferson Highway, from a point on the Red River six miles north of Denison to Denison, Greenville, Mt. Pleasant, Longview and the state line east of Marshall.
- State Highway 12, Jefferson Davis Memorial Highway also known from the Sabine River to Vidor as the Evangeline Highway connecting with the Evangeline Highway in Louisiana at the Sabine River, from a point on the Sabine River east of Deweyville through Deweyville, Vidor, Beaumont, Houston, Wharton, Victoria and Kingsville to Brownsville and thence along the Rio Grande valley to El Paso.
- State Highway 13, Ozark Trail, from Texico through Amarillo and Wheeler east to the state line.
- State Highway 14, Dallas-Houston Highway, from Dallas through Corsicana and Mexia to southwest of Bremond.
- State Highway 15, Dallas to Louisiana Highway, from Dallas through Tyler to Longview, connecting with the Jefferson Highway.
- State Highway 16, Denton-Oklahoma Highway, from a point on the state line north of Gainesville south through Gainesville to Denton and thence to Fort Worth. One branch of the road from Denton will go to Dallas, another from the same point through Aubrey, Pilot Point and Tioga, connecting with the North Texas Highway at Whitesboro.
- State Highway 17, Pecos Valley Highway, from a point on the state line north of Mont Clair through Mont Clair, Pecos and Barstow to Fort Stockton.
- Now US 285
- State Highway 18, Albany-Broncho Highway, from Albany through Aspermont, Dickens, Lubbock, Brownfield and Broncho, and may connect with the Fort Worth-Roswell Highway.
- State Highway 19, Paris to Houston Highway, from a point on the Red River north of Paris to Paris, Terrell, Tyler, Palestine, Crockett, Huntsville and Houston.
- State Highway 20, Austin-Houston Highway, from Austin through Giddings, Brenham and Hempstead to Houston.
- Now US 290
- State Highway 21, Gonzales-San Augustine Highway, from Gonzales via Giddings, Crockett, Nacogdoches and San Augustine east to the state line.
- State Highway 22, Wichita Falls to Comanche Highway, from Wichita Falls through Archer City and Breckenridge to Comanche.
- State Highway 23, from Fort Stockton to El Paso.
- State Highway 24, Old Southern Trail, from Burkburnett through Wichita Falls, Archer City, Throckmorton, Albany, Baird, Mason, Fredericksburg, Boerne, San Antonio and Laredo.
- State Highway 25, from Fort Worth to Hillsboro, connecting with No. 6 there.
- Now US 81
- Changes from newspaper article to state highway plan map
- SH 3A added from Houston through La Grange, Smithville and Lockhart to San Marcos in July 1917
- SH 19A added from Sulphur Springs to Tyler
- SH 20 extended westward from Austin through Burnett, Llano, and Mason to Brady
- SH 23 route removed
- SH 24 changed to SH 23
- New routing for SH 24, from Denton to Whitesboro
- Now US 377
- SH 25 changed to SH 2A
- New routing for SH 25, from Henrietta, through Jacksboro, Mineral Wells, Weatherford, and Granbury to Meridian
- State Highway 26, from Tyler to Nacogdoches added in June 1917.
More highways had been designated by 1919 as can be seen here [2].
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