End of US highway 76 |
 |
|
1926-1932
|
1932-1935
|
1935-present
|
Summa
|
Mileage: in 1989 AASHTO listed a figure of 574 miles for US 76... however, that included the mileage of US 76's associated business routes. According to the state subtotals on AASHTO's 1989 spreadsheet, mainline US 76's actual end-to-end total at the time was 547 miles. That is reasonably close to our own 2020 measurement, which yielded 538.1 miles (reroutings and realignments likely explain the difference).
|
|
US 76 was among the original 1926 routes; here is its description from AASHO's Apr. 1927 route log:
c. 1927, Rand McNally
|
The photo below is looking east on North Street in Greenville:
Karner, May 2013
The crossroad is Main Street, which originally carried US 25-29. The west beginning of US 76 was straight ahead on North.
At the time, the east end of US 76 was in Florence. In 1932 the west end of US 76 was truncated at Laurens SC, and instead extended via its modern corridor through Georgia to Chattanooga. Then in 1935, the east end was extended to Wrightsville Beach, where it remains to this day.
|
Research and/or photo credits: Martin Karner; Dale Sanderson; Michael Summa
Page originally created 2000;
last updated Oct. 26, 2021.
last updated Oct. 26, 2021.
