Connecticut Route 108

Route 108 marker

Route 108

Map of Fairfield County in southwestern Connecticut with Route 108 highlighted in red
Route information
Maintained by ConnDOT
Length: 11.05 mi[1] (17.78 km)
Existed: 1696 – present
Major junctions
South end: US 1 in Stratford
  Route 8 in Trumbull
Route 15 in Trumbull
North end: Route 110 in Shelton
Location
Counties: Fairfield
Highway system
  • Routes in Connecticut
Route 107Route 109

Route 108 in the U.S. state of Connecticut, locally called Nichols Avenue and Huntington Turnpike, is a two-lane state highway that runs northerly from US 1, Boston Post Road in Stratford, through Trumbull, to Route 110 in downtown Shelton. Originally called the Farm Highway, it was laid out to the south side of Mischa Hill in Trumbull on December 7, 1696 and is considered to be the third oldest documented highway in Connecticut after the Mohegan Road (Route 32) in Norwich (1670) and the Boston Post Road or US 1 (1673).[2]

The section of Nichols Avenue from the Stratford-Trumbull town line to Huntington Turnpike in Trumbull is known as the Trooper Ernest Morse Memorial Highway, named in honor of a state trooper who was killed by gunfire on Friday February 13, 1953, while trying to apprehend a suspect in a car theft.[3]

Route description

Route 108 begins at Barnum Avenue or US Route 1 in Stratford and proceeds north out of Stratford center intersecting with North Avenue and Second Hill Lane. It continues northward over Third Hill and intersects with Silver Lane, Hawley Lane and Route 8 in Trumbull. It then goes up and over Mischa Hill and into the center of the village of Nichols. It crosses over the Merritt Parkway and then defines the western boundary of the historic Nichols green and intersects with old cross highway Unity Road. Past Nichols center, it continues northward and intersects with Isinglass Road as it makes its way into the village of Huntington in Shelton. It bisects the historic Huntington green separating the common from the old St. Paul's Episcopal Church and old burial ground . Route 108 makes a turn eastward past the Huntington green on its way to its terminus at Route 110 in downtown Shelton at the western side of the Housatonic River.[1]

Route 108 is a two lane road that widens to four lanes with turning lanes and traffic lights at the intersections with Route 8 and Route 15 (Merritt Parkway) in Trumbull.

History

Remnant of Farm Highway at Nichols, Connecticut

Junction list

The entire route is in Fairfield County.

Locationmi[1]kmDestinationsNotes
Stratford0.000.00 US 1 Bridgeport, Milford
Trumbull2.794.49 Route 8 Bridgeport, WaterburyRoute 8 Exit 8; also provides access to northbound Route 15.
3.205.15 Route 15 / Merritt Parkway New Haven, N.Y. CityRoute 15 North Exit 51 Partial interchange to Route 15 South Exit 52.
Shelton11.0517.78 Route 110 Monroe, Stratford
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi

On the National Register of Historic Places

References

  1. 1 2 3 Connecticut State Highway Log
  2. Connecticut Roads History
  3. Connecticut State Police Honor Roll
  4. A History of the Old Town of Stratford and the City of Bridgeport, Connecticut, Reverend Samuel Orcutt, Fairfield County Historical Society, 1886, Vol. II, page 1039
  5. Trumbull Historical Society - Timeline
  6. Reverend Samuel Orcutt, The History of the Old Town of Stratford, Connecticut, (Fairfield Historical Society, 1886)
  7. Charles Hoadly, The Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut 1636 to 1776, (Lockwood & Brainard, 1872)
  8. Public Records Colony of Connecticut volume 6, page 568
  9. 1 2 F.J. Wood, The Turnpikes of New England, (Marshall Jones Co., Boston, 1919)
  10. Connecticut Routes, Route 108

External links

Route map: Bing / Google

See also

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