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1928 Virginia state highway renumbering

state highway renumbering

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 2, 2026
Entity authorityQ2507586 ↗
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In August 1928, the U.S. state of Virginia renumbered many of its state highways. This renumbering was caused by a new law that greatly increased the state highway mileage. The old system, in which three-digit routes were spurs of two-digit routes, was unwieldy for a large number of routes, and so a new system, in which three-digit routes were assigned by district, was adopted.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “1928 Virginia state highway renumbering” is state highway renumbering. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Virginia, state and highway, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1928—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Virginia, state and highway is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “1928 Virginia state highway renumbering” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.