End of historic US highway 123 [i]

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1930-1934
This page is about the original (historic) US 123, not the existing US 123.  Today's US 119 between Jenkins and Pineville first received a US route designation in 1929, when US 23 was extended southward along that corridor.  But the next year, US 23 was re-routed south from Jenkins (essentially along its current path), so the former US 23 from Jenkins to Pineville was renumbered as US 123.  However, that lasted for only four years; in 1934 the entirety of US 123 was subsumed by US 119, which had been extended south from Morgantown WV.  This image was made a few years after that change had taken place, but it shows the intersection where US 123 had ended a short time earlier:
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​That building is gone now; a medical clinic is now on that lot.  The perspective was looking northeast on Main Street (today's KY 805).  For a brief time, that was eastbound US 123, which ended at that intersection.  Straight ahead on Main was northbound US 23, while southbound was to the right on Lakeside Drive (now KY 2550).
Research and/or photo credits: Nathan Edgars; Michael Roberson; Dale Sanderson
Page originally created 2002;
last updated Jan. 8, 2018.