Liberty Highway

Liberty Highway

Original map of Liberty Highway route
Route information
Existed: 1918 – present
Major junctions
West end: Cleveland, OH
East end: New York City
Location
States: Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey
Highway system
Auto Trails

The Liberty Highway was an auto trail in the United States linking New York City with Cleveland, Ohio.[1] It passed through Binghamton, New York; Elmira, New York; Jamestown, New York; and Erie, Pennsylvania. First signed in 1918, it was named after the village of Liberty, New York.[2]

Through New Jersey and New York, the route of the Liberty Highway was designated as Route 17. Today, much of these routes have been bypassed by freeways, most notably by Interstate 86. Throughout much of the Catskills and the Southern Tier of New York, old portions of the road are still named Liberty Highway or Old Route 17.

The original route of the Liberty Highway roughly corresponds to the following modern highways:[2][3]

Former routing of New York State Route 17. As Route 17 was reassigned, the Liberty Highway designation was moved onto these new segments.

References

  1. "Liberty Highway". National and Multi-State Auto Trails. October 26, 1998. Retrieved January 16, 2013.
  2. 1 2 Johnston, R. J. (April 4, 1918). "The Liberty Highway: Touring and Driveaway Route Between Cleveland and New York". Motor Age 33 (14): 72–75. Retrieved January 16, 2013.
  3. Official Automobile Blue Book 1923: Volume Two (Middle Atlantic and Southeastern). Chicago: Automobile Blue Book Publishing. 1922. pp. 63–66.
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Saturday, August 08, 2015. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.