Editing New Jersey Route 10 (section)

==History==
[[File:2021-07-06 10 41 33 View west along New Jersey State Route 10 at the exit for Interstate 287 NORTH (Mahwah) in Hanover Township, Morris County, New Jersey.jpg|thumb|right|Route 10 westbound at the Interstate 287 interchange in Hanover Township]]
Route 10 roughly follows a portion of an old [[Lenape Trail]] from the Passaic River to Whippany.<ref>Snyder, John (1969). "[https://www.state.nj.us/dep/njgs/enviroed/oldpubs/bulletin67.pdf The Story of New Jersey's Civil Boundaries 1606-1968]"</ref> The Newark and Mount Pleasant Turnpike was established along the present-day alignment of Route 10 east of [[Dover, New Jersey|Dover]] on March 12, 1806, existing as a turnpike until before 1833.<ref name=rw>{{cite web|url=http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~njmorris/munsellhistory/h-chpt11.htm|title=CHAPTER XI. Travel And Transportation—Turnpikes—The Morris Canal—Railroads.|publisher=[[RootsWeb.com]]|access-date=2009-01-03}}</ref>

[[File:2021-09-24 11 11 19 View east along New Jersey State Route 10 from the overpass for the ramp to Morris County Route 665 (South Salem Street) in Randolph Township, Morris County, New Jersey.jpg|thumb|left|View eastbound along Route 10 from County Route 665 in Randolph]]
Route 10 was designated in 1927 to run from [[Jersey City, New Jersey|Jersey City]] west to [[New Jersey Route 6|Route 6]] (now US 46) west of Dover, passing through [[Newark, New Jersey|Newark]]. This routing of Route 10 followed its current alignment and ran east along present-day CR 577, Mt Pleasant Avenue, and Park Avenue to Newark, where it followed CR 508 and [[New Jersey Route 7|Route 7]] to [[U.S. Route 1/9|US 1/9]] at the [[Tonnele Circle]] in Jersey City.<ref name="nj1927">State of New Jersey, Laws of 1927, Chapter 319.{{dead link|date=April 2017}}</ref><ref name="Map">{{cite map|url=http://www.jimmyandsharonwilliams.com/njroads/1920s/images/1927_routes.gif|title=1927 New Jersey Road Map|publisher=State of New Jersey| access-date=2008-10-08|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160313112746/http://jimmyandsharonwilliams.com/njroads/1920s/images/1927_routes.gif|archive-date=2016-03-13}}</ref> By 1930, the road's western terminus had been moved to bypass Dover to terminate at [[Ledgewood, New Jersey|Ledgewood]]. The earliest completed sections of an upgraded highway were completed from Livingston Circle to Whippany, with the bridge over the Passaic River completed in 1930. From there the road was extended to [[New Jersey Route 53|Route 53]]<ref>{{Cite news|date=1932-01-31|title=WORK PROGRESSING ON ROUTE 10|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1932/01/31/archives/work-progressing-on-route-10.html|access-date=2021-07-16|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> and finished at Ledgewood. In Essex County, the route that the highway would be constructed along was contentious from the start. In 1930 and 1931, three proposals for arteries were presented, all paralleling existing railroads. Though demands to decide a route and begin construction extended to at least 1937,<ref>{{Cite news|date=1937-10-03|title=URGES DECISION ON JERSEY HIGHWAY; Orange Realty Board Criticizes Long Delay for Extension to Route 10|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1937/10/03/archives/urges-decision-on-jersey-highway-orange-realty-board-criticizes.html|access-date=2021-07-16|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> no highway was ever constructed, and the road terminated at West Orange.

To solve this issue, a new route for Route 10 was designated in 1952 to run along a new, never-built alignment farther to the north, running through [[Belleville, New Jersey|Belleville]], [[Bloomfield, New Jersey|Bloomfield]], [[Glen Ridge, New Jersey|Glen Ridge]], [[Montclair, New Jersey|Montclair]], West Orange, and along the Livingston/[[Roseland, New Jersey|Roseland]] border, roughly along much of the routing of present-day CR 611 (Eagle Rock Avenue), and following its current alignment through Morris County to Ledgewood. A spur of the route was also planned in 1952 to run from Montclair south to [[Orange, New Jersey|Orange]].<ref name=nj1952>State of New Jersey, Laws of 1952, Chapter 289.</ref> A year later, in the [[1953 New Jersey state highway renumbering]], Route 10 was defined onto its current alignment, with its eastern terminus moved to Prospect Avenue in West Orange.<ref name="nj1953">{{Cite book|title=1953 renumbering|publisher=New Jersey Department of Highways}}</ref><ref name=nyt>{{cite news|access-date=2009-07-20|title=New Road Signs Ready in New Jersey|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=1952-12-16|url=http://img123.imageshack.us/img123/6933/19521216newroadsignsreaiu6.jpg|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721112422/http://img123.imageshack.us/img123/6933/19521216newroadsignsreaiu6.jpg|archive-date=2011-07-21}}</ref> In 1998, the Ledgewood Circle at the western terminus of the route was replaced with a signalized T-intersection.<ref name=rnj>{{cite web|author=Balston, Mottel|url=http://www.roxburynewjersey.com/history.htm|title=A Short History Of Roxbury Township, Morris County, New Jersey|publisher=RoxburyNewJersey.com|access-date=2009-01-02}}</ref> In the mid-2000s, an $11.5 million project was undertaken to improve safety on the portion of Route 10 in Hanover and East Hanover Townships by widening existing lanes and adding turning lanes to the road.<ref name=njdot>{{cite web|url=http://www.state.nj.us/transportation/about/press/2003/112603.shtm|title=Lettiere cuts ribbon on Route 10 congestion relief program in Morris County |date=November 26, 2003|publisher=[[New Jersey Department of Transportation]]|access-date=2009-01-02}}</ref>

Joint Resolution No. 3, page 844, of the 160th [[New Jersey Legislature|Legislature]] (1936) designated Route&nbsp;10 as the '''American Legion Memorial Highway''' in honor of the services of the members of the [[American Legion]] in [[World War I]].<ref>State of New Jersey; ''Laws of 1936, Joint Resolution No. 3''</ref>