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100 years of US routes: 1926-2026
US route endpoint in
1929-1946
In 1929 the south end of US 19 was extended to Tallahassee, and it seems likely that the route would have ended right at the State Capitol. Both of these photos were taken looking west on Apalachee Parkway, approaching Monroe Street:
Duly, 2003
(date and attribution unknown, probably late 1950s)
In that previous photo, note the US 27 and US 319 shields. US 19 probably began to the right for about one year, but in 1930 the route was extended down to St. Petersburg. So it is debatable whether that endpoint was located there long enough to ever be signed as such.
US 319 was commissioned in 1933, with its north end in Tallahassee. It probably began to the left on Monroe, but that lasted only a few years: in 1937 US 319 was extended north to Thomasville GA.
But a third US route had a more long-lived endpoint in Tallahassee:
c. 1939, Rand McNally
In 1934 the US 27 designation was extended into town, overlapped with US 90 on Monroe. I have not seen an early map detailed enough to pinpoint exactly where US 27 ended, but most likely it was at the State Capitol. From the perspectives shown above, US 27 would have begun to the right (and for about three years that terminus would have been shared with US 319). If you look closely near the bottom of the black-and-white photo, you can see the US routes were signed with colored shields. That means the photo was no earlier than 1956, so when it was taken US 27 had already been extended further south.
Otherwise the intersection shown in this photo also would have been a logical terminus point:
Cozart, Dec. 2003
That was on northbound Monroe at Tennessee Street, or US 90. Today that is all US 27, but for about 12 years, the south beginning of US 27 may have been straight ahead. In 1946, US 27 was extended south to its current endpoint, and since then, no US routes terminate in Tallahassee.
Research and/or image credits: Justin Cozart; Jeffrey Duly; Dale Sanderson
Page originally created 1999;last updated May 15, 2025.
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