End of historic US highway 241 [ii] |
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1930-1954
- North: Murfreesboro, TN
- South: Dothan, AL
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The first US 241 was among the original 1926 routes, but it existed for only a couple years. The second US 241 was commissioned the following year: it connected to its parent (US 41) at Murfreesboro, and ran southward to Dothan:
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c. 1938, TN DoT
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This photo (from about 1953) was taken looking west on Main Street in Murfreesboro. During the timeframe when US 241 ended in Murfreesboro, Broad Street had not yet been built. So northbound US 41 came in on Maney Avenue, then this direction on Main, then right here on Spring Street for one block, then west again on College Street. But to turn left at the intersection pictured here was to head south along the beginning of US 241:
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c. 1953, attribution unknown
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After one block, US 241 traffic jogged west on Vine Street, then south again on Church Street (which today carries US 231 traffic south from Broad).
Straight ahead on Main is the courthouse square; it was not visible in that historic photo, but here is a more recent photo looking the same direction (west on Main): |
Robbins, Mar. 2010 (linked to source)
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To the left on Spring was the north beginning of US 241. Based on the 1950 USGS topo, by the time Broad was built, there were no longer any US routes that still terminated in Murfreesboro. US 241 essentially became a branch of US 31, as most of it was redesignated as US 231 or US 431.
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Research and/or photo credits: Nathan Edgars; Lew Robbins; Dale Sanderson
Page originally created 2005;
last updated Jun. 8, 2018.
last updated Jun. 8, 2018.
