Old Highway 10

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This highway was abandoned back in the 70′s when Highway 10 was widened and made into a 4 lane road. In most places they used the existing roadbed for one side and built a new one adjacent to the existing one. There were places however where the existing 1920′s era road bed had to be abandoned in order to facilitate the higher road speeds that the 1920′s road wasn’t able to handle. The new 1970′s era Highway 10 was designed to handle 65-70 m.p.h road speeds. However there were some areas that they felt were either too close to the rail road bed, or too sharp of curves, or no where to build the new adjacent road bed so they moved the whole thing over.