End of historic US highway 168

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1927-1934
US 168 was an original 1926 route, with its east terminus in Mt. Vernon.  The west endpoint was in Louisville:
Picture
c. 1930, Kentucky State Highway Commission
This interactive image is looking south on 2nd Street, which at the time was US 31.  The cross street is Broadway, which today is US 150, but back then it was US 60.  To the left on Broadway was not only eastbound US 60, but probably also the west beginning of US 168:
About a mile in that direction is the junction with Barrett Avenue; eastbound Broadway is on the left side of this image.  To the right is Barrett, a diagonal.  That was either the west beginning of US 168, or else this intersection was where US 168 split off from US 60:
US 168 lasted only about seven years: in 1934, US 150 was extended eastward, and it subsumed the entirety of what had been US 168.
Research and/or photo credits: Dale Sanderson
Page originally created 2005;
last updated Oct. 25, 2016.