Virginia State Route 110 (1947-1956)

Infobox road
state=VA
type=
route=110
length_mi=0.29
length_ref=PDFlink| [http://www.virginiadot.org/meetings/minutes_pdf/CTB-06-1947-01.pdf Minutes of the Meeting of the State Highway Commission Held in Richmond, June 25, 1947] |740 KiB , page 23]
length_round=2
established=1947
deleted=1956
direction_a=West
direction_b=East
starting_terminus=
ending_terminus=Potomac River

State Route 110 was a short primary state highway in Alexandria, Virginia, United States, planned to connect U.S. Route 1 with a bridge across the Potomac River to the District of Columbia.

The roadway was to begin at Henry Street (US 1, now southbound only ) just south of First Street, head east-northeast to the intersection of Washington Street (now State Route 400) and Second Street, and then run east on Second Street to the river for a total length of 0.29 miles (0.47 km).PDFlink| [http://www.virginiadot.org/meetings/minutes_pdf/CTB-06-1947-01.pdf Minutes of the Meeting of the State Highway Commission Held in Richmond, June 25, 1947] |740 KiB , page 23] The 0.16-mile (0.26 km) part on Second Street was added as a state highway connection, to be maintained by the City of Alexandria with state funding.PDFlink| [http://www.virginiadot.org/meetings/minutes_pdf/CTB-03-1956-01.pdf Minutes of the Meeting of the State Highway Commission of Virginia, Held in Richmond, March 29, 1956] |1.14 MiB , page 29] The proposed bridge site was just south of the Shepherd's Landing Bridge, a temporary rail bridge built at Third Street during World War II in case of attack on the Long Bridge to the north. [PDFlink| [http://www.prrths.com/Hagley/PRR1942%20Aug%2004.wd.pdf PRR Chronology, 1942, August 2004 Edition] |41.0 KiB ] That rail bridge was demolished in early 1947. [ [http://www.dcnrhs.org/dc_rail_history.htm Washington D.C. Chapter of the National Railway Historical Society, Washington, D.C. Railroad History] ] In 1956, SR 110 was removed from the state highway system, as the proposed bridge had moved to the south (to the location of the present Woodrow Wilson Bridge).PDFlink| [http://www.virginiadot.org/meetings/minutes_pdf/CTB-03-1956-01.pdf Minutes of the Meeting of the State Highway Commission of Virginia, Held in Richmond, March 29, 1956] |1.14 MiB , page 29]

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