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U.S. 17-1W  C'mon man...really?
Formerly:		US 17-1W came about after NC 40 was rerouted in Feb 1930 to run Weldon-Garysburg-Pleasant Hill (repacing NC 481) and the State Highway Commission said US 17-1 followed NC 40. AASHO was alerted a few months later and in August 1930 the State Engineer ordered that US 17-1 return to the Roanoke Rapids routing, and floating the idea of requesting US 17-1E and US 17-1W to preserve the policy that no town loses a US route once they got one. US 17-1W would of course run Weldon-Roanoke Rapids-Pleasant Hill. However, In June 1931 (AASHO), US 17-1 was officially rerouted to the Weldon-Garysburg-Pleasant Hill routing. Today the US 17-1W routing is US 158, Julian Allsbrook Hwy and NC 48.	US 17-1's original and proposed routes out of Weldon May 1931 NCDOT submission to AASHO

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