End of US highway 322 |
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1926-1933
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1933-1936
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1936-present
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As of 2020, US 322 measured 484.6 miles in total length.
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Summa
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Claim to fame: US 322 is the only current US route that shares a common terminus with another US route at both of its endpoints (US 40 on the east, US 42 on the west).
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The west end of US 322 has always been in Cleveland. US 322 was an original 1927 route, but until 1933 it only went as far east as Water Street:
c. 1930, PennDoT
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West from the Du Bois area, US 322 deviated quite a bit from its current route to get there. It wound up on what is now signed as PA hwy. 453, and ended at its junction with US 22:
Bees
Where PA 453 ends today is the original east end of US 322...
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...but it was not long before the US 322 designation was rerouted east of Philipsburg such that it terminated in Lewistown. Both routings out of Philipsburg (upper left) can be compared on this 1934 map, which shows the "new" US 322 (via Port Matilda and State College to Lewistown), as well as the old route (which at the time was designated PA 350) via Tyrone to Water Street:
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c. 1934, Gallup
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This photo was looking west on Market Street at Lewistown's central square. Straight ahead was westbound US 22, while eastbound was to the left on Main Street, so this was the perspective of a driver at the east end of US 322:
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Dawson, Jul. 2012 (linked to original)
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Three short years later, the US 322 designation was extended again, this time to its current eastern terminus in Atlantic City.
Research and/or photo credits: John and Barb Bee; Jon Dawson; Dale Sanderson; Michael Summa
Page originally created 2000;
last updated Feb. 15, 2021.
last updated Feb. 15, 2021.
