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WV 618: 0 - 0 US 50: 0.8 - 0.8 I-77 (exit 174): 2.0 - 2.8 Ritchie-Wood Line: 18.3 - 21.1 WV 53: 3.8 - 24.9 WV 16 NB: 12.4 - 37.3 WV 16 SB: 0.1 - 37.4 Gilmer-Ritchie Line: 12.4 - 49.8 WV 74: 4.9 - 54.7 WV 18: 4.0 - 58.7 US 33, US 119: 3.5 - 62.2
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Creation: Appeared 1928 (WVDOT annual report) as new primary routing running from US 50 (now WV 618) Parkersburg to WV 11 east of Cisco. This is the 2nd WV 47.
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Adjustments: Between 1929-31, WV 47 was extended east replacing WV 11 to end at WV 18 Troy. In 1936 or 1937, WV 47 was removed from CR 47/17 Kanawha River Rd through Kanawha Station and also from CR 47/20 Oxbow Rd through Oxbow Between 1938-46, WV 47 was extended east replacing WV 18 from Troy to US 33-119 Linn. Also between 1938-46, WV 47 was rebuilt onto new alignments east out of Parkersburg and was removed from CR 47/18 Baltimore St, CR 47/19 Golden St, CR 47/20 (now cutoff by I-77), CR 47/21 Cedar Grove Rd, CR 47/22 Old Turnpike Rd, CR 47/23 Old State 47, CR 47/24 Staunton Pike, and CR 47/25 Old State 47
Improvements: By 1935, WV 47 was paved from Parkersburg to Kanawha Station and from Smithville to Burnt House The remainder of WV 47 was paved by 1946; no multilane segmetns on WV 47 Comment: Main way to get from Weston to Parkersburg | Previous WV 47's:
1930 ROUTE LOG WV 9: 0 - 0 US 11: 25 - 25 |
WV 47 #1: Appeared 1922 as new primary routing running from WV 9 (Union at Wilkes) Berkeley Springs southeast to WV 52 (now US 11) Martinsburg.
Between 1929-31, WV 47 was renumbered as part of WV 9. Today it is still WV 9 except Wilkes/Fairfax Sts in Berkeley Springs; CR 11/24 Warm Springs Ave in Martinsburg
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Parkersburg (Wood County)
Linn (Gilmer County)
