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| to Faribault; I-35 to MN-3; Faribault to MN-149; to St. Paul. U.S. 61 St. Paul to Wyoming; to Rush City; and through Rush City and returning to I-35; to Sandstone; ; ; and through Moose Lake;;; to Duluth. Duluth to Canadian border. * Interstate route that replaced original U.S. route but as a closely parallel route still meets route description. ** BecameMN-218 in 1935 Comment:Like many states when first marking their roads, route 1 was one of the primary routes across the state. This was no exception, and it ran border to border. It would have been the longest route, too. In looking at a 1933 map, it appears that just south of St. Paul, U.S. 65 was moved onto S. Robert Trail/Street, which at that time was not a trunk highway. CR-1 remained on Dodd Road. In the route changes of 1934, though, S. Robert became a trunk highway and with the U.S. route changes became U.S. 218 (until 1935) and, further north, the point of entry of new U.S. 52 from Rochester. | ||||
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| Beginning at a point on the boundary line between the states of Minnesota and Wisconsin, westerly of La Crosse, Wisconsin, and thence extending in a northwesterly direction to a point on the easterly limits of the city of St. Paul and then beginning at a point on the westerly limits of the city of Minneapolis and thence extending in a northwesterly direction to a point on the east bank of the Red River of the North at Breckenridge, affording La Crescent, Winona, Kellogg, Wabasha, Lake City, Red Wing, Hastings, St. Paul, Minneapolis, Osseo, Champlin, Anoka, Elk River, Big Lake, St. Cloud, Albany, Sauk Centre, Alexandria, Elbow Lake, Fergus Falls, Breckenridge and intervening and adjacent communities a reasonable means of communication, each with the other and other places within the state. 1927-33 U.S. Highways: 10S and 10 Fergus Falls to Minneapolis except for segment between just SE of Fergus Falls through Elbow Lake to Evansville (U.S. 10S followed a direct route not on a trunk highway between these points); 61 St. Paul to Wisconsin border at La Crescent. 1934 designations:MN-3North Dakota border at Breckenridge to Fergus Falls; U.S. 52 Fergus Falls SE a few miles;MN-73** south to Elbow Lake;MN-79 to Evansville;U.S. 52 to Minneapolis; U.S. 61 St. Paul to La Crescent Present-day designations: North Dakota border at Breckenridge to Fergus Falls; Fergus Falls to U.S. 59 south;U.S. 59I-94 to Elbow Lake; east to I-94; to St. Cloud ; through St. Cloud; U.S. 10 to Anoka; U.S. 169 south to Osseo; [formerly followed U.S. 169 and MN-81 to Minneapolis; now routed overU.S. 169 south to I-394 and east to Minneapolis***].U.S. 61 St. Paul south to Wisconsin border at La Crescent. Andrew Munsch (www.deadpioneer.com) sent me aphoto (opens in separate window) showing two men standing by a U.S. 61/MN-3 sign. Note the height of the sign compared to what is typical today. Could be anywhere in the time fame 1927-33. * Interstate route that replaced original U.S. route but as a closely parallel route still meets route description. ** BecameU.S. 59in 1935 *** Deviation from original routing due to route turnbacks, but generally meets route description |
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Comment: This was one of the only two Constitutional Routes where there was a discrepancy between the description and the route as marked. Between Nicollet and Mankato, the direct route was marked as MN-7 and later U.S. 14. This segment became a trunk highway in 1934 as Legislative Route 122, but until that time it bore the MN-7 designation. The defined route of CR-7 from New Ulm to St. Peter was actually posted as MN-21. Clearly, from the description above, CR-7 passes through St. Peter.
* BecameMN-94 in 1935
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I'd prefer to see present-day MN-13 resume this direct routing.
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