Editing U.S. Route 1 (section)

==History==
[[File:Photograph of a road sign along the highway in Key West, Florida, announcing the beginning of U.S. Route 1 to Fort... - NARA - 200542.jpg|thumb|left|The beginning of US&nbsp;1 as of March 1951]]
The direct predecessor to US&nbsp;1 was the Atlantic Highway, an [[auto trail]] established in 1911 as the Quebec–Miami International Highway. In 1915, it was renamed the Atlantic Highway,<ref>{{cite book |first = William |last = Kaczynski |title = The American Highway: The History and Culture of Roads in the United States |year = 2000 |page= 38 }}{{full citation needed|date=January 2017}}</ref> and the northern terminus was changed to [[Calais, Maine]].<ref>{{cite news |work = [[Decatur Daily Review]] |title = Many Auto Highways Gridiron the Nation |date = November 14, 1915 }}{{full citation needed|date=January 2017}}</ref> Due to the overlapping of auto trail designations, portions of the route had other names that remain in common use, such as the [[Boston Post Road]] between [[Boston]] and [[New York City]], the [[Lincoln Highway]] between New York and [[Philadelphia]], the Baltimore Pike between Philadelphia and [[Baltimore]], and the [[Dixie Highway]] in and south of eastern [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]]. North of [[Augusta, Georgia]], the highway generally followed the [[Atlantic Seaboard Fall Line]], rather than a more easterly route through the [[swamp]]s of the [[Atlantic Plain]].<ref>{{cite map |author = Clason Map Company |author-link = Clason Map Company |url = https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/infrastructure/midgetmap.cfm |title = Midget Map of the Transcontinental Trails of the United States |year= 1923 |publisher= Clason Map Company |via = Federal Highway Administration }}{{full citation needed|date=January 2017}}</ref> [[Brickell Avenue]] is the name given to the {{convert|2|mi|km|adj=on|spell=in}} stretch of US&nbsp;1 in [[Miami, Florida]], just south of the [[Miami River (Florida)|Miami River]] until the [[Rickenbacker Causeway]].

When the [[New England road marking system]] was established in 1922, the Atlantic Highway within [[New England]] was signed as [[New England road marking system#Route 1|Route&nbsp;1]], with a [[New England road marking system#Route 24|Route&nbsp;24]] continuing north to [[Madawaska, Maine|Madawaska]];<ref>{{cite news |work = [[The New York Times]] |title = Motor Sign Uniformity |date = April 16, 1922 |page= 98 }}</ref> [[New York (state)|New York]] extended the number to [[New York City]] in 1924 with its own [[New York State Route 1|Route&nbsp;1]].<ref>{{cite news |work = The New York Times |title = New York's Main Highways Designated by Numbers |date= December 21, 1924 |page = XX9 }}</ref> Other states adopted their own systems of numbering; by 1926 all states but [[Maryland]] had signed the Atlantic Highway as various routes, usually changing numbers at the state line. In 1925, the [[Joint Board on Interstate Highways]] created a preliminary list of interstate routes to be marked by the states,<ref name="FHWA planning">{{cite web |first = Richard F. |last = Weingroff |url = https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/infrastructure/numbers.cfm |title = From Names to Numbers: The Origins of the U.S. Numbered Highway System |publisher = Federal Highway Administration |access-date = October 12, 2007 |archive-date = October 17, 2007 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20071017125035/http://wwwcf.fhwa.dot.gov/infrastructure/numbers.htm |url-status = live }}{{full citation needed|date=January 2017}}</ref> including US&nbsp;1 along the Atlantic. This highway began at [[Fort Kent, Maine]], and followed the existing Route&nbsp;24 to [[Houlton, Maine|Houlton]], as well as [[New England road marking system#Route 15|Route&nbsp;15]] to [[Bangor, Maine|Bangor]], beyond which it generally followed the Atlantic Highway to Miami.<ref name="1925 list">{{cite book |type = Report |author = Joint Board on Interstate Highways |year = 1925 |chapter = Appendix VI: Descriptions of the Interstate Routes Selected, with Numbers Assigned |chapter-url = https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Report_of_Joint_Board_on_Interstate_Highways_October_30,_1925#49 |title = Report of Joint Board on Interstate Highways, October 30, 1925, Approved by the Secretary of Agriculture, November 18, 1925 |location = Washington, DC |publisher = [[United States Department of Agriculture]] |page = 49 |id = {{OCLC|733875457|55123355|71026428}} |via = [[Wikisource]] |access-date = November 14, 2017 |archive-date = November 14, 2017 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171114145350/https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Report_of_Joint_Board_on_Interstate_Highways_October_30,_1925#49 |url-status = live }}</ref> In all states but [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]] that had numbered their [[state highway]]s, Route&nbsp;1 followed only one or two numbers across the state.<ref name="1926routes">The following routes were used, shown on the 1926 Rand McNally:
*Florida: 4
*Georgia: 15, 17, and 24
*South Carolina: 12 and 50
*North Carolina: 50
*Virginia: 31
*Maryland: state highways were not numbered prior to the U.S. Highway system
*Pennsylvania: 12 and 1
*New Jersey: 13 and 1
*New York: 1
*New England: 1 and 24, and a small piece of 160 beyond [[Madawaska, Maine]] (in the 1925 plan, part of 15 was also used)</ref> The only significant deviation from the Atlantic Highway was between [[Augusta, Georgia]], and [[Jacksonville, Florida]], where Route&nbsp;1 was assigned to a more inland route, rather than following the Atlantic Highway via [[Savannah, Georgia|Savannah]].<ref name="1926 Rand McNally">{{cite map |author = Rand McNally |author-link = Rand McNally |title = Auto Road Atlas |year = 1926 |publisher = Rand McNally |url = http://www.broermapsonline.org/members/ |via = Broer Map Library }}</ref>

One of the many changes made to the system before the final numbering was adopted in 1926 involved US&nbsp;1 in Maine. The 1925 plan had assigned US&nbsp;1 to the shorter inland route (Route&nbsp;15) between Houlton and Bangor, while [[U.S. Route 2|US&nbsp;2]] followed the longer coastal route via Calais. In the system as adopted in 1926, US&nbsp;2 instead took the inland route, while US&nbsp;1 followed the coast, absorbing all of the former Route&nbsp;24 and Route&nbsp;1 in New England.<ref name="1926 map">{{cite map |author1 = Bureau of Public Roads |author-link = Bureau of Public Roads |author2 = American Association of State Highway Officials |author2-link = American Association of State Highway Officials |date = November 11, 1926 |title = United States System of Highways Adopted for Uniform Marking by the American Association of State Highway Officials |url = https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:United_States_System_of_Highways_Adopted_for_Uniform_Marking_by_the_American_Association_of_State_Highway_Officials.jpg  |scale = 1:7,000,000 |location = Washington, DC |publisher = [[United States Geological Survey]] |oclc = 32889555 |access-date = November 7, 2013 |via = [[Wikimedia Commons]] |name-list-style = amp }}</ref><ref name="1927 log">{{cite journal |title= United States Numbered Highways |journal = American Highways |publisher = [[American Association of State Highway Officials]] |date = April 1927}}</ref> Many local and regional relocations, often onto parallel [[Highway|superhighway]]s, were made in the early days of US&nbsp;1; this included the four-lane divided [[New Jersey Route 25|Route&nbsp;25]] in [[New Jersey]], completed in 1932 with the opening of the [[Pulaski Skyway]],<ref>{{cite book |last = Hart |first = Steven |title = The Last Three Miles: Politics, Murder, and the Construction of America's First Superhighway |publisher = [[The New Press]] |year = 2007 |isbn = 978-1-59558-098-6 |pages = 1–5 }}</ref> and a bypass of Bangor involving the [[Waldo–Hancock Bridge]], opened in 1931.<ref>{{cite web |author = Maine Department of Transportation |url = http://www.maine.gov/mdot/covered-bridges/waldo.php |title= Waldo–Hancock Bridge |access-date = October 12, 2007 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110605235116/http://www.maine.gov/mdot/covered-bridges/waldo.php |archive-date = June 5, 2011 |author-link = Maine Department of Transportation }}</ref> The [[Overseas Highway]] from Miami to [[Key West]] was completed in 1938 and soon became a southern extension of US&nbsp;1.<ref>{{cite map |author = State Road Department of Florida |author-link = State Road Department of Florida |url = http://alabamamaps.ua.edu/historicalmaps/us_states/florida/index3.html |title = Official State Road Map of Florida |year = 1941 |location = Tallahassee |publisher = State Road Department of Florida |access-date = October 12, 2007 |archive-date = November 22, 2007 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20071122062420/http://alabamamaps.ua.edu/historicalmaps/us_states/florida/index3.html |url-status = dead }}{{full citation needed|date=January 2017}}</ref>

With the construction of the [[Interstate Highway System]] in and after the 1950s, much of US&nbsp;1 from Houlton to Miami was bypassed by [[Interstate 95|I-95]]. Between Houlton and [[Brunswick, Maine]], I-95 took a shorter inland route, much of it paralleling US&nbsp;2 on the alignment proposed for US&nbsp;1 in 1925. Between [[Philadelphia]] and [[Baltimore]], I-95 leaves US&nbsp;1 to pass through [[Wilmington, Delaware|Wilmington]]. Most notably, I-95 and US&nbsp;1 follow different corridors between [[Petersburg, Virginia]], and [[Jacksonville, Florida]]; while US&nbsp;1 followed the Atlantic Seaboard Fall Line west of the coastal plain, I-95 takes a more direct route through the plain and its swamps. Although some of this part of US&nbsp;1 was followed by other Interstates—[[Interstate 85|I-85]] between Petersburg and [[Henderson, North Carolina]], and [[Interstate 20|I-20]] between [[Camden, South Carolina]], and [[Augusta, Georgia]]—the rest remains an independent route with four lanes in many places. By the late 1970s, most of I-95 had been completed, replacing US&nbsp;1 as the main corridor of the east coast and relegating most of it to local road status.<ref>{{cite map |author-link = Gulf Oil |author = Gulf |title = Tourgide: United States, Canada and Mexico |location= Chicago |publisher = [[Rand McNally & Company]] |year = 1977 }}{{full citation needed|date=January 2017}}</ref>