Virginia State Route 351

Infobox road
state=VA
type=
route=351
length_mi=8.81
length_ref=PDFlink| [http://www.virginiadot.org/info/resources/AADT_094_Warwick_2005.pdf 2005 Virginia Department of Transportation Jurisdiction Report - Daily Traffic Volume Estimates - Warwick Maintenance Area] |116 KiB ] PDFlink| [http://www.virginiadot.org/info/resources/AADT_027_ElizabethCity_2005.pdf 2005 Virginia Department of Transportation Jurisdiction Report - Daily Traffic Volume Estimates - Elizabeth City Maintenance Area] |113 KiB ]
length_round=2
established=mid-1940s
direction_a=West
direction_b=East
starting_terminus=
junction=
ending_terminus=Second Street at Buckroe Beach
previous_type=
previous_route=350
next_type=
next_route=352

State Route 351 is a primary state highway in Hampton and Newport News, Virginia, United States. It makes no turns, following 39th Street and Pembroke Avenue from Huntington Avenue (U.S. Route 60 eastbound) northwest of downtown Newport News east to Second Street, one block past State Route 169, in the Buckroe Beach area of Hampton.

History

King Street north from downtown Hampton, continuing northeast on current State Route 169, was added to the state highway system in 1928 as State Route 513. [CTB minutes|08-1928-02, page 31] The Shell Road alignment between Newport News and Hampton was added in 1931CTB minutes|12-1930-02, page 13] and 1932CTB minutes|07-1932-03, page 20] as State Route 532. Also in 1932, the road from Hampton part of the way towards Buckroe Beach was added. [CTB minutes|12-1932-01, page 11]

In the 1933 renumbering, a Newport News-Hampton-Buckroe Beach route, along with Jefferson Avenue in Newport News towards Williamsburg, became State Route 168. From Newport News east, this used what had been SR 532 to the intersection of Shell Road and LaSalle Avenue. There it followed State Route 167 (former State Route 511) along Shell Road, Newport News Avenue, and Back River Road to Queen Street, State Route 27/167 (former State Route 514) along Back River Road, and SR 167 (former State Route 533) along Rip Rap Road to King Street (former SR 513). SR 167 continued northeast on former SR 513, while SR 168 turned south on SR 513 into Hampton, where it headed east on Pmbroke Avenue as added in 1932. The rest of the route to Buckroe Beach (via Old Buckroe Road and Buckroe Avenue to Third Street, ending at State Route 169), [http://lvaimage.lib.va.us/cgi-bin/vhip_subjects/vhip.pl?&
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] , revised July 1, 1935] was added in 1936. [CTB minutes|08-1936-01, page 25]

A new alignment of SR 168 between 39th Street and Huntington Avenue in Newport News [CTB minutes|01-1943-01, page 3] and Pembroke Avenue and King Street in Hampton [CTB minutes|06-1942-01, page 6] was built in the early 1940s, and added to the state highway system in 1944; [CTB minutes|04-1944-01, page 10] the old route (then on Shell Road) became State Route 143. By 1947, [CTB minutes|07-1946-01, page 55] SR 168 was rerouted in Hampton to continue south on Jefferson Avenue, and State Route 351, which had been used for a route in Norfolk that SR 168 absorbed, was assigned to the old alignment to Buckroe Beach, as well as the continuation west to Warwick Boulevard (U.S. Route 60). In 1976, when US 60 eastbound was moved to Huntington Avenue, SR 351 was extended west a block to meet it. [CTB minutes|09-1976-01, pages 10-16]

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