Editing New Jersey Route 68 (section)

==History==
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|route=S39
|location= [[Fort Dix]]&ndash;[[Mansfield Township, Burlington County, New Jersey|Mansfield Township]]
|length_mi=
|length_round=
|length_ref=
|formed=1941<ref name=nj1941 />
|deleted=1953<ref name="nj1953" />
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As part of improving road access to the Fort Dix Military Reservation at the onset of World War II, a [[Works Progress Administration]] project improved the paved road connecting the fort to Bordentown.<ref name=nyt>{{cite news|title=Roads to Fort Dix Will be Improved |newspaper=The New York Times |date=February 15, 1941}}</ref> In 1941, this road was legislated as Route S39, a state highway spur of Route 39 (now US&nbsp;206) that was to run from the fort to Mansfield Square.<ref name=nj1941>State of New Jersey, Laws of 1941, Chapter 13, Page 25, Section 1.</ref> Construction on the access road was completed in 1943 at a cost of over $2 million.<ref name=nyt2>{{cite news|title=New Fort Dix Road Is Opened |newspaper=The New York Times |date=December 17, 1943}}</ref> Route S39 became Route 68 in the [[1953 New Jersey state highway renumbering]].<ref name="nj1953">{{Cite book|title=1953 renumbering|url=http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1953_New_Jersey_state_highway_renumbering|publisher=New Jersey Department of Highways|access-date=July 31, 2009|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110628183145/http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1953_New_Jersey_state_highway_renumbering|archive-date=June 28, 2011}}</ref> The same year, an extension of Route 68 was legislated to run south from Fort Dix to the intersection with Route 70 and Route 72 at the Four Mile Circle.<ref name=nj1953ii>State of New Jersey, Laws of 1953, Chapter 112, Page 1298, Section 1.</ref> In 1961, a freeway was proposed along the Route 68 corridor, running from a planned Route 38 freeway near Fort Dix south to Route 70 and Route 72; however, this was never built.<ref>{{cite report|title=New Jersey Builds Better Highways|publisher=New Jersey State Highway Department|date=1961}}</ref><ref name=1964Map>{{cite web|url=http://www.nycroads.com/history/expwy-map_metro/|title=Proposed Expressways in New York City|publisher=Regional Plan Association News|date=May 1964|access-date=2009-07-14}}</ref>