Portal:U.S. roads/Did you know/January 2012

...that scenic State Route 160 crosses California's Sacramento River twice on 1923 bascule bridges (one pictured) patented by Joseph B. Strauss, who went on to design the Golden Gate Bridge?
...that Pennsylvania Route 152 was originally a pathway known as the Limekiln Road built in 1693 to transport lime from kilns in Upper Dublin Township?
...that Virginia State Route 204 is the access road to George Washington Birthplace National Monument in Westmoreland County, Virginia?
...that the northern terminus of Massachusetts Route 21 was truncated from Athol to Belchertown due to the creation of the Quabbin Reservoir?
... that the state of Wisconsin proposed the route of Highway 57 as an Interstate Highway corridor in the 1950s?