Texas State Highway 11

Infobox TX State Highway
route=11
type=State

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length_mi=153.2
length_ref= [TxDOT|SH|11|accessdate=2008-03-15]
length_round=1
formed=1917
dir1=West
dir2=East
from=jct|state=TX|TX|56 in Sherman
junction=jct|state=TX|US|69
jct|state=TX|I|30
jct|state=TX|US|271
jct|state=TX|US|259
to=jct|state=TX|US|59 in Linden
previous_route=10
previous_type=State
next_route=12
next_type=State
browse=tx browse
previous_type=state
previous_route=313
route=SH 314
next_type=state
next_route=315

State Highway 11, or SH 11, is a highway that runs from US 59 in Linden to SH 56 in Sherman in northeast Texas.

History

State Highway 11 was one of the original twenty-six state highways proposed in 1917, overlaid on top of the 'Jefferson Highway.' In 1917 the routing was proposed from the Oklahoma border at Denison, south on present day U.S. Highway 69 through Whitewright into Greenville. From Greenville, it went east on U.S. Highway 67 to Mount Pleasant, and south on U.S. Highway 271 to Gilmer and along State Highway 300 to Longview, and finally, U.S. Highway 80 through Marshall to the Louisiana border.

In 1919 the segment from Gilmer to Longview had yet to be built, so the road was rerouted over the current US 271 and US 80 routes through Gladewater, Texas.

In 1926 US 67, 271 and 80 were overlaid onto segments of SH 11. While the routes were marked concurrently, by 1933, SH 11 had lost all of its original assignment and had been reassigned to nearby towns the U.S. highways had not reached. The road now began in Ladonia and via the present day State Highway 50 to Commerce where it followed the current SH 11 from to Daingerfield, then north on U.S. Highway 259 through Omaha and terminating in De Kalb

By 1939 the US 259 segment of SH 11 was cancelled, and SH 11 was extended from Daingerfield to Linden via its current alignment, replacing SH 47, and up US 59 to a terminus in Texarkana. The US 59 alignment of SH 11 was removed in 1947, The Ladonia-Commerce segment was removed and replaced with its current assignment in 1971 over what was previously designated as State Highway 314.

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